Two million and counting
At some unspecified, unknown moment last night, my sitemeter reached the two million hit mark.
It’s not a milestone I ever expected to reach when I began blogging—I would have been surprised to get a total of one thousand hits back then, and I didn’t even have a sitemeter. But here I am at the two million point, thanks to you all.
Congratulations; your weblog has been on my shortlist of reading for over a year now. Thanks…
Do you realize just how hard it’s been for me to log off and log back on two million times? But, like Janis Joplin said, “You know you’ve got it if it makes you feel good.”
Thanks, Cap’n. I guess I owe it all to you.
People like Scottie got the first taste for free and now they can’t stay away, Neo!
It is rather funny and nostalgic (and I remember your post(s) on that subject, Neo), since I remember reading your views on Iraq, some of the 2002 things that I weren’t in on, and many many other topics that have come up.
It is like we are fellow travelers or something…
You do realize that, thanks to a new Obama virus, wherever a Sitemeter count reaches 2,004,000 the countup becomes a count down.
Well-earned, well deserved!
I thank YOU for giving me a “place” to visit where I don’t feel like an alien or an interloper. I thank you for building a real “community,” as you so well described it when I first visited. Following that “first,” I felt compelled to return time and time again. Now I do it because I know I’m going to find an interesting post; sometimes a surprising one; sometimes amusing; always a wonderfully well-written one, and always thoughtful as well as thought-provoking.
Now, if only there was some way you could get a buck per hit … 🙂
No, thank you for being the blogger that you are
neo,
Richard Fernandez’ and your blogs are my favorites. The quality of repartee is generally excellent, although I just find it hard to stomach “Truth” and sometimes “Mitsu.” But over at Wretchard’s blog we get a guy who’s a rabid Jew-hater nicknamed c-fudd (shortened for “Cedarford”) who will rumble with me (we despise each other). I learn a lot from the members here, as I do over at Wretchard’s.
You should thank yourself – or, better yet, we should thank you, for having one of the more thought provoking blogs on the ‘net. 🙂
Thank you for sharing your insight on current events, your thoughtful introspection, and your good humor with light hearted commentary now and then as well.
You have a natural ease in communicating your ideas. I enjoy seeing how you reason things out and come to conclusions.
Congratulations on reaching the 2 million mark!
I first found your blog through a link to your “A Mind Is a Difficult Thing to Change” posts. I saw a lot of myself there, and I put those posts in my personal list on “Blog Classics.” I’ve been checking your blog on a regular basis ever since. Thanks for your thoughts and your honesty.
Keep blogging!
Quality will often lead to hits. This is a very original and very well-written blog.
The quality of repartee is generally excellent, although I just find it hard to stomach “Truth” and sometimes “Mitsu.”
You better improve your training then. I’ve seen people like “Loyal Achates” treat Neo with disrespect, harassment, and insults. Compared to people like them, Mitsu and Truth are model blogizens.
And by training, I mean the ability to train your stomach 😉
You do realize that, thanks to a new Obama virus, wherever a Sitemeter count reaches 2,004,000 the countup becomes a count down.
Vanderleun is, as usual, completely wrong*. Obama said definitively it’s 250,000 hits, or maybe 150,000 hits; Joe Biden even said 125,000 hits and the countup becomes a count down.
Congratulations Neo. Glad I could help. If only Ymar and Artfldger would break up their posts into several smaller posts, you count would be at 3,000,000 or more**
*Vanderleun is not often wrong. Like Chuck Norris, he thought he was wrong once, but he was mistaken.
**I appreciate a place where ideas can be expanded at length
although I just find it hard to stomach “Truth” and sometimes “Mitsu.”
I think “Truth” is a gem, and one of the reasons I come here; not that I always, or even often, agree with him. He’s an actual “Moderate Muslim” we all want to hear from, and from all indications, a decent guy.
“Mitsu” is just another liberal dope who feels that reason is better than feelings. He is a great object lesson.
Have to agree with Ymarsaker re: Truth & Mitsu. Mitsu is always polite, respectful and usually informed (even if mostly wrong!)
I think with Truth there is a language difficulty and think that sometimes the comments seem angry or arrogant when it’s really more a function of English as second language. (In fact, lately, I’ve thought Truth has been much more generous toward U.S. and especially more understanding re: threat of Terrorism.
(And I apologize to all, espec. Neo- for posts of my own that end up overly long)
Neo– with all the zillions of blogs out there, you clearly have distinguished yourself and the blogmeter is but one indication.
Y’know. What makes this blog one of the best is Neo’s tending to her poster garden.
She’s banned trolls while allowing dissent, difference of opinion and argument. Diversity is her strength, ha! I don’t want to hear from the rightie peanut gallery all the time.
I think she’s more feisty to support and defend truly rightie causes and ideas now, that’s the only change I can see over the past couple of years; and I applaud it.
I’m not a Neocon. Now that we are really and truly in the Wilderness as a party and as a philosophy, she’ll learn what it really means to suppport the stupidest, most well-meaning political philosophy: A Republican.
One of my must read blogs and frequently quoted (with full accreditation). Congratulations and keep going. please. 😉
Well done, neo, and well deserved. I don’t comment very often, but I check in every morning (an apple a day keeps the ignorance away!). I can’t remember when I discovered your site but it was after my own post-Clinton and 9/11 Great Awakening.
Your comments and the regulars who contribute make this one of the classiest blog sites on the web. Thank you.
Congratulations, Neo. Your blog is my favorite. I like the fact that even though your background and cultural environment could have made you a staunch liberal, you were thoughtful and logical enough to become conservative. Makes you very credible. Your logic is impeccable, your writing clear, and the tone of what you say is moderate…something badly needed in political discussions these days. I can’t count the times I’ve said “Gee, that’s what I was thinking!” The quality of the government in a democracy depends on the quality of the electorate. I wish we had more in this country like you.
Neo, your success shows that there is demand for writing that is intelligent and elegant. This is an oasis in the desert.
And at the bottom, you are still working on that most essential of topics: how do people change their minds? Therein lies hope, because if no one can change his mind, we are left on that darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night, and there is no hope.
Thank you.
Even as a newbie, I can say you are as humble as you are wise.
I appreciate what you decide to write about, and the great comments that flow in. I am learning by coming here. That’s about the whole reason I go blogging.
MSM has taught me nothing but how to use the remote without looking at it.
I am ever hopeful to surf in one day and find the apple gone.
csimon,
What exactly is a “moderate” Muslim? This is an honest question, not sarcasm. I’ve found “Truth” more often than not hostile towards our country. I often wonder why he’s here in the U.S. if he hates it so much. He pretty much slams our entire military history. Heck, I’ve read comments from him that even rip apart our campaigns in WWII. His views are virtually indistinguishable from the Leftists.
“Truth” is a guy who invites his way into your home and criticizes your meatloaf as being substandard.
Happy 2 million neo. Of course all my posts should count double because they are all of higher quality. But you knew that.
Congratulations Neo!
I’ve been a regular since 2004. I just don’t post very often.
Congratulations from me, too!
I enjoy your blog a great deal. It’s soooothing, in a world of frenetic blogging. I also appreciate the journey you’ve taken in your political philosophy and can relate to your outsider status. Although I’m a life-long conservative (and a registered Republican), I spent the majority of my adult life in academe where I was exposed to some of the most intolerant, narrow-minded people I’ve ever met (yes, the other professors!).
Many happy “returns!”