Hendrik Hertzberg's Blogging Virginity

The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg lost his self-described ”blogging virginity” — without even a ”by your leave” — at the Yearly Kos conference on August 2. He began, salaciously, ”Wham. Bam.”

15 furious blog posts later, ”Rik” appears to have mastered this spooky art entirely, ranting like a vagrant in the public park bread-feeding the dirty pigeons. Note to Rik: the commendable long-form New Yorker essay does not lend itself to blogging. To wit, Friday’s thoroughly despicable brainbuster:

”The NPV ballot initiative is being promoted by Democrats as a way of heading off the California-only Congressional-district plan, which is an obvious Republican boondoggle.

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