Family Feud

I guess I missed out on yet another kerfuffle in the blogosphere this weekend involving prominent blogger Kos and some debate/discussion/hissy fits about things I didn't know were going on. It caught the attention of David Brooks who gleefully wrote about it in his Sunday column (you can practically hear him cackling with glee) and it gave him the chance to trot out his version of snarky humor and make fun of Kos's alleged role in being the dictator of all that goes on in the lefty blogosphere.

That shows just how out of the loop David Brooks is and how pathetic it makes him look to attack Kos as the "Cheneyesque" kingpin of the lockstep lefties. Yes, Kos is a big blog; probably the biggest on the left. Big whoop. Brooks and the dead-tree crowd seem to think that Kos and Atrios and the bloggers that get thousands of hits an hour are representative of the blogosphere.

To quote the immortal Pogo, "Bazz-fazz!" There are a lot of other blogs out there that are as well-written and as well-researched as anything that comes out of Daily Kos that won't get as many hits in a year as Kos gets in an hour, and each one is its own voice. Some are great and some are crap. Some aspire to be the next Kos, some are happy just to post once a week. It's all good, and the fact that some folks somewhere are having a tiff only means that we're not all alike. We don't all get an encrypted mass-mailing in the wee hours of the morning telling us what to write about, and even if we did, you can be sure that the bloggers I know would ignore it. From what I've observed, that applies to blogs of all stripes; as much as we'd like to think it, the rigthies can be as contrary to their own perceived party line as we of the left.

I have known since the day this blog started that it would never be a big dog in the blogosphere, and it didn't aspire to be one. Passing 100,000 hits in March was a big deal. I doubt that Kos or Atrios are worried about BBWW catching up to them; hell, I'll bet you they have no idea that this blog even exists. The longest thread of comments I've gotten has never topped 50. But with few exceptions, every comment has been a worthy addition to the discussion, something that makes the smaller readership all that much more worth it. Write about that, David Brooks.