That Michele Malkin is really making a name for herself in quick order.

It's nice to see a new blogger have early success.

Off -topic tip here;

Hitchens deconstructs Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11;

You HAVE to read this fisking. It is devastating and thorough, and just gets better and better with each paragraph. I laughed, I cried...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13891

whoops, see you got that on another thread, my bad

No problem. It's a good slam.

Not that anyone cares about my theory of blogging, but I don't link stuff like that, not because it's not interesting, but that I have to assume that, my readers being newshounds themselves, you've all already read it, or seen the link on Instapundit, and so my linking it would just be duplicative.

At least until I dethrone Instapundit, I consider myself a second or third or fourth read blog. So I don't link the biggest stories, as I assume everyone's read them before they get to me.

Unless they're so huge that I have to link them, or unless I have something to add.

Ace, you'll be happy to know that you're my first-read blog. I don't even know what Instapundit is, as it was only a few months ago that I first learned what a blog is.

Thanks. That's a tremendous compliment.

But the fact remains that most people only come here after checking out the bigger boys.

I mean-- take Drudge. I can't just link stuff Drudge links; what would be the point of that?

Sure, I do link Drudge stuff often, but only if 1) he's not giving it the prominence I think it deserves or 2) I have something to add or 3) it's just so huge that my blog would seem incomplete if I didn't mention it.

Like the whole SpaceShipOne dealy-oh. I think this is a big story, and really cool, but I have nothing to say about it except "cool."

Just as long as you slice like a fuckin' hammer, Ace. Instapundit don't slice like a fuckin' hammer, y'know?