Hope all is well with you, the wife, and the young academic.
I wanted to give you a heads up that I'm writing an article that will include my experiences debating at Protein Wisdom, which will be appearing on True/Slant in the next couple of days and probably The Huffington Post shortly afterward, as well as excerpted and linked to from my weekly column here in Brooklyn and a few other outlets. Of course, I'll have nothing but nice things to say about you and Dan Collins (who's agreed to speak to me tomorrow) and a couple of the more thoughtful commenters, and one of the points of the piece is that Protein Wisdom has, overall, the most cerebral regulars of any non-liberal blog, and that this was due in part to the nature of the posts back when you were running the show.
The thrust of the article involves the manner in which certain partisans will engage in ridiculously disingenuous rhetoric in defense of their ideology or allies, as well as making ad hominem attacks on others who disagree with them, and how this is magnified on the internet, particularly when people hide behind anonymity and are amongst like-minded folks, in which case a certain mob mentality kicks in. I'll be citing a couple of examples from Daily Kos, where a couple of blog posts I wrote were received with stupid mob hostility because they either failed to toe the party line or offended their delicate sensibilities, resulting in rampant cryfaggotry. But much of the article will consist of similar nonsense I've seen on the part of some of the more idiotic commenters at PW.
I announced this earlier this evening on PW, and explained that I will gladly link to any refutation of my article and even publish the entirety of any response written by Darleen (or anyone else with posting privileges) at the bottom of my piece. I also noted that every incident I mention will be linked to, with every pertinent comment linked to specifically as well.
Anyway, you'll probably get a spike in traffic if the piece gets picked up by HuffPo, and of course a spike in irritating liberal trolls.
Let me know if you have any questions. Also, as for that True/Slant thing I mentioned, they're paying $250 a month just for signing up as a contributor, and another $250 if you manage to get 15,000 hits over the course of a month. Do you want me to mention you to Coates Bateman, the guy in charge? You could basically write about whatever you want, whenever you want, and you'd retain the rights to everything. Basically, you could monetize the following you already have without having to bother with the nonsense you had to deal with at PW. He'd definitely be interested in having you on board, I think. Let me know.