{"id":3166,"date":"2005-09-27T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/27\/3166.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:07","slug":"whatd-i-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/27\/whatd-i-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"What’d I miss?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pretty nearly every single time Mark Schmitt posts something either to The Decembrist<\/a> or to his TPM Café<\/a> table, I get the urge to post about it. Or, rather, to just post the link and encourage Gentle Readers to read it. I rarely have anything much to add. For instance, when Karl Rove took charge of the recovery from Hurricane Katrina, it was Mark Schmitt who pointed out that it was a setup<\/a>, and that we were heading for “a situation in which Democrats vote against or seem to oppose some sort of Gulf Coast reconstruction package.” I think he’s right, and I think there isn’t much to add to that, but I think anybody interested in the balance of power in the Congress after the 2006 elections should read the post and be aware of it. Similarly, Mr. Schmitt posts a withering analysis of Sen. Bill Frist, the HCA, and our corporate and government culture in Pump and Dump Politics<\/a>, but I haven’t anything to add to it.\n

I imagine that Gentle Readers pretty likely fall into three categories. First of all, there are those who just aren’t going to read lengthy, wordy analyses of legislative politics by anybody they don’t know, and who aren’t following those links anyway. Then there are the ones who have already added Mr. Schmitt’s blogs to the aggregator or bookmark collection, and don’t need the links. Last, I suppose, are the Gentle Readers who don’t generally read stuff like that but might if I link to it. I assume these would prefer that I don’t just link to every single entry Mr. Schmitt makes.\n

You know, let’s open this up, Gentle Readers... Who do you read? Who do you make sure not to miss, and who do you check now and then? Not the journals of old college buddies and that, I mean the blogs for political, social and artistic commentary and links to events of the day. Y’all have seen my collection. Who and what am I missing?\n

chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty nearly every single time Mark Schmitt posts something either to The Decembrist or to his TPM Café table, I get the urge to post about it. Or, rather, to just post the link and encourage Gentle Readers to read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}