Second Degree Greatness

Dan Drezner links to his top five best blog posts ever. None of them are written by me, but two of them contain links to less distinguished posts that I wrote. So you see you can't hold me responsible for the low quality of the content here; the goal is provoke other people to write great blog posts.

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the goal is provoke other people to write great blog posts.

One of the goals. Surely another goal is to drive up your comment count with people begging you to hire a proofreader.

Posted by SoCalJustice | November 2, 2007 4:48 PM

No Fafblog, so how seriously can we take Drezner's list.

Posted by SomeCallMeTim | November 2, 2007 5:10 PM

I'll take a poorly edited and typo filled MY post over anything by Douthat or McMegan.

I read MY for the prodigious output. Also, since MB went into retirement I haven't found a long form blogger worth reading in detail, I skim Greenwald, well edited or not.

Posted by crack | November 2, 2007 5:14 PM

Some of the Megan's piece is quite funny. Which is not to distract from the established fact that she cannot hold a candle to her frustrated suitor MY.

Posted by gregor | November 2, 2007 5:23 PM

Oh, I'm in thunderous agreement with his nomination of the "and a pony" post by Belle Waring, even it it was from an idea by the "Calvin and Hobbes" guy. I mean, where would we be without ponies?

Posted by David in NY | November 2, 2007 5:24 PM

I like this one best:
http://yglesias.blogspot.com/2002_01_13_archive.html#8654510

Posted by Chris | November 2, 2007 5:56 PM

"the goal is provoke other people..."

What are you now, Ann Coulter? Just teasing, no one's that bad.

In reference to this and your previous post regarding the content of your blog, I rather like your provocations....

Posted by Rihilism | November 2, 2007 9:32 PM

And here I thought your function was to provoke me into writing great comment posts in answer to the morons who criticize your posts (not including myself when I criticize your posts of course.)

Not to mention get you to answer my questions on Iran WHICH YOU STILL HAVEN'T DONE!

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | November 2, 2007 9:59 PM

I used to get annoyed by navel-gazing blogging, but I think that MY does it in such a self-deprecating way that's kinda charming. Frankly, I'm surprised he's not included in the top five. When Matt comes up with a great point, it's always thought-provoking and I then see it linked and referred to in every other liberal blog I read.

Posted by charlie | November 2, 2007 11:32 PM