You don't have to pity Glenn. He's got that spiffy Mazda RX-8 just from blog donation alone.

Can't wait for the headline: "Blogger in Stand-Off with Police After Tri-State Crime Spree."

Well, how's this for hate. Once you get past heh, indeed and read the whole thing at instapundit, I think I'll read InDC everytime. No empty cut and paste suit here.

Thanks, but Instapundit's got a unique talent for aggregating and presenting news. It's a real talent. Different type of blogging.

I wouldn't trade either of you for the other.

You're right about Glenn's talent as an aggregator. He's also a good writer and pundit, but most of that seems to turn up at Tech Central and in other venues.

You do it here. And I appreciate it. Keep it up.

Both of you would have reports from inside the siege if you ever ended up in that situation. :D Faster, more accurate, and more pertinent than the newsies.

Even with my modest stats, I get my share. I actually like getting hate mail. Is that strange?

La Shawn -

I don't mind getting the people that use all swear words interrupted by the occasional use of an article (funny!), but I do dislike the intolerant lefties and righties that patronize me in an otherwise non-profane manner. Can get to you after a bit.

I had one sanctimonious fellow e-mail me today saying that he was triumphantly removing me from his bookmarks because I was "more concerned about making money" than I was about my "readers." Considering the fact that I pull down about, oh, $.000000000001 an hour (before taxes), this kind of bugged me ... a few minutes before it made me laugh.

:-)

There few blogs that I consider must REEDs (Read Everything Every Day), but you're one of them. I can't fathom the idea of sending someone hate mail, but it probably means you're doing something worthwhile. Thanks.

Hate mail? How on earth do your generate that? Only thing I've had was a Guardian journalist calling me a "hateful, simplistic Libertarian" which was fair enough as I called him an idiot.
Oh, wait, you mean if I do that more often more people will write?

I don't get any hate mail.

Nobody hates me, everybody likes me, think I'll go eat worms. Or maybe pizza.