A blogroll link like that only gets us a few visitors. It was my link from Balloon Juice that drew the crowd.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Scott H. Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com> wrote:

No, it's been there for a while now.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Rufus F. <rufus138@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, anyone know why the visits quadrupled yesterday? A guess: Did Douthat add that link from his Times site to the League just recently or was it always there?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Mark Thompson <mwthompson88@yahoo.com> wrote:

Welcome to you both!

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From: Ned Resnikoff <nedresnikoff@gmail.com>
To: Scott H. Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com>
Cc: matthewschmitz@gmail.com; Will Collins <williamf.collins@gmail.com>; lisakramer1979@aol.com; erik.kain@gmail.com; Davidaruggiero1973@gmail.com; david.schaengold@gmail.com; rufus138@gmail.com; JKuznicki@cato.org; awhaleyb@gmail.com; williamrandolphbrafford@gmail.com; mwthompson88@yahoo.com; barriticus@gmail.com
Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 9:55:47 PM
Subject: Re: The Gentlemen in question....

Hey all! Thanks for the welcome, and I'm excited to be blogging alongside all of you.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Scott H. Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com> wrote:

Er, at the table, that is.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Scott H. Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com> wrote:

Hola Ned and Barrett,

Glad to have your respective impressive talents at the, even if I'm off foraging for scraps at the Canadian "kids section".

Barrett, out of curiosity, is it true what they say that you're now intermittently channeling the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson after a botched exorcism by a Peruvian witchdoctor dressed up like Queen Amidala of Naboo?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, <matthewschmitz@gmail.com> wrote:

Howdy to the newcomers.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Will Collins <williamf.collins@gmail.com> wrote:

Excited to have you guys writing for us.

- Will

PS - David, I think Damon Linker showed up in our comment section to call you out for that latest potshot. I'm eagerly anticipating a follow-up post.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM, <lisakramer1979@aol.com> wrote:

Welcome Barrett!  Welcome Ned!  Glad to have you on board.

Lisa

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From: Erik Kain <erik.kain@gmail.com>
To: davidaruggiero1973@gmail.com <Davidaruggiero1973@gmail.com>; David Schaengold <david.schaengold@gmail.com>; Matt Schmitz <matthewschmitz@gmail.com>; Rufus F. <rufus138@gmail.com>; Jason Kuznicki <JKuznicki@cato.org>; Austin Bramwell <awhaleyb@gmail.com>; Will Collins <williamf.collins@gmail.com>; William Brafford <williamrandolphbrafford@gmail.com>; Mark Thompson <mwthompson88@yahoo.com>; Scott Payne <scott.h.payne@gmail.com>; <lisakramer1979@aol.com> <lisakramer1979@aol.com>; Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>; Ned Resnikoff <nedresnikoff@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 10:59 am
Subject: The Gentlemen in question....

Hey all,

As some of you may have noticed, Barrett Brown has joined The League. I apologize for my late introduction and announcement. Also joining the site is Ned Resnikoff. Please welcome them both to The League. 

There may be more additions to the site in the near-ish future. I hope to significantly expand the stable of writers here while maintaining the extremely high quality we've maintained so far.

I'll also be starting the yearly fund-raising drive in early November. There will be a paypal donation link on the site and I'll post an announcement. If we can raise enough money we may even be able to move the site to higher quality web hosting which would be nice (though I think it's been running fairly well...) I'm pretty sure we'll be able to keep the site ad-free.

Other than that, you may have also noticed the return of the Gravatars. If any authors don't have a Gravatar yet they can set one up at www.gravatar.com. Any questions don't hesitate to shoot me an email.

Cheers,

Erik

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Rufus F.