Holy Smokes!
Matt Welch's latest venture into tip-jar rattling yielded 61 donations. I think I recall him saying he averaged around 12,000 hits per day. Theoretically, then, at that rate, if I do this right, I should be able to get... let's see... um... well, one or two anyway. If I round up. More stats: Matt's blog is 100 times better than mine, but I'm pretty sure I'm at least 1000 times more broke than he is. Rattle rattle...
In other news, Welch has a terrific review of this terrible review of this terrible book by this terrifically terrible old man. Favorite quote:
Fashioning a response to 9/11 is the single most crucial question of our time; praising a policy critic who advocates a vague and foolish response policy reveals nothing more than comfy ideological brotherhood, and a basic lack of nerve. Encouraging people to follow such a man’s lead (in being “eloquently” incoherent, apparently), does not, in fact, contribute to a “grand national debate.” On the contrary, it pre-empts even half-way useful conversation.