2/17/2009

33 Comments

1. Congrats Patterico. Whoo hoo!

   Comment by no one you know — 2/17/2009 @ 2:58 am

2. Congrats, my e-friend, as Better Half refers to all of you.

   Comment by JD — 2/17/2009 @ 5:00 am

3. Congratulations.

   Just don’t get a marketing consultant to help you “re do” the blog because they would probably suggesting calling it “Pat’s Place.”

   Comment by Joe — 2/17/2009 @ 5:02 am

4. Very cool place to visit.

   Comment by Old Coot — 2/17/2009 @ 6:03 am

5. Wow. Very nice. Happy Blogiversary.

   Comment by Pablo — 2/17/2009 @ 6:06 am

6. And they all said you’d grow up to be nothing more than a wildly successful attorney…..

   Comment by EricPWJohnson — 2/17/2009 @ 7:39 am

7. Outstanding Young Man! The future looks bright based on nothing but what you have done in the past. Happy Anneversary to a terrific blogger.

   Comment by GM Roper who wants DRJ back — 2/17/2009 @ 8:18 am

8. I’m really impressed with what you’ve done here, and it’s not even your day job. Keep on!*

   *and if DRJ returns, it’s be even better!

   Comment by Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. — 2/17/2009 @ 8:22 am

9. Yeah, but really, really cool Blogiversary parties have free ice cream & stuff…

   Comment by Adriane — 2/17/2009 @ 8:24 am

10. This blog is top shelf.
    Thanks for your work and information output Patterico.

    Comment by Baxter Greene — 2/17/2009 @ 8:55 am

11. Congratulations, Host!
    Care to share some top-blog secrets while we are celebrating? I mean why is this one of the most visited blogs on the blogosphere? Why does it attract both conservatives and liberals like bees to honey? So let me make it easy for you.
    7 Reasons why Patterico’s Pontification is the best is:
    (1)………………………………….
    (2)…………………………………….
    (3)…………………………………….
    (4)………………………………………
    (5)……………………………………..
    (6)……………………………………..
    (7)………………………………………

    (Hint) Anyone is free to jump in.

    Comment by Emperor7 — 2/17/2009 @ 9:20 am

12. Drawn like a moth to a flame,
    I would definitely have more time for some utterly worthless endeavors,
    if not for the time spent at this site.

    Congratulations on a job Well Done!

    Comment by AD - RtR/OS — 2/17/2009 @ 10:00 am

13. [...] to be a total downer, so wish Patterico a happy 6th blogiversary. Posted by Dan Collins @ 11:36 am | Trackback SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “ACORN-holed [Dan [...]

    Pingback by ACORN-holed [Dan Collins] — 2/17/2009 @ 10:01 am

14. (1) P.Pontification is the best because of all the good people I have come to know here. Cheers to you all. You make it happen.

    Comment by Emperor7 — 2/17/2009 @ 11:24 am

15. Happy Blogiversary!

    Comment by kimsch — 2/17/2009 @ 11:44 am

16. [...] Today is the sixth “blogiversary for Patterico’s Pontifications. He noted that his WordPress dashboard indiocated that there have been 9,810 posts, and 255,738 approved comments on his site in the past six years. Yeah, well according to my dashboard, Akismet has blocked 502,242 incoming spam attacks! [...]

    Pingback by Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Happy Blogiversary to Patterico — 2/17/2009 @ 11:57 am

17. Patterico’s blog has turned six,
    ‘Cause of the interesting topics he picks
    We don’t wonder why
    We keep coming by
    It’s ’cause lib’rul ass our host kicks!

    Comment by The Limerick Avenger — 2/17/2009 @ 12:03 pm

18. Congratulations, Patrick, and many thanks. Your amazing blog would be essential reading in any case, but it’s particularly important in a city such as LA, where there exists no daily newspaper. Thank God we have you, Kevin Roderick, Mickey Kaus, Andrew Breitbart, Nikki Finke, Roger Simon, Drudge…. I’ve never felt better informed (nor had fewer California sections to recycle, unread).

    Comment by Scott Kaufer — 2/17/2009 @ 12:16 pm

19. Blogs like this falsify the tired claim by self-satified MSM hacks that only newspapers do real reporting.

    Here’s another example. about yet another financial scandal the MSM was too afraid to vigorously investigate.

    This, ladies and gentlemen, is how the journalistic sausage is made. It’s a hyper-competitive world, which is good in some respects, but very bad in others — the Stanford case being a prime example. When Dalmady broke the story, Matt Goldstein of Business Week and Alison Fitzgerald of Bloomberg were already quite far advanced in their own investigations of Stanford. As a result, the WSJ and the NYT were reluctant to report the story, and were pretty late to the game. The FT had it even worse, being hobbled by lawyers worrying about the UK’s draconian libel laws. . .

    More generally, essentially no media source has had the guts to do what Dalmady expected of them — which is to take a critical look at Stanford’s financials, as he did, and try to work out whether they indicate the presence of fraud. Instead, most of the Stanford reporting has been about regulatory investigations — including the SEC investigation which has been dragging on for at least three years now.

    Comment by Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R., who implores DRJ to remain at Patterico! — 2/17/2009 @ 1:16 pm

20. Yay! 6 years is many. It is for real an important thing you do Mr. Patterico sir. I will tell you how I think of it. Clicks here are not clicks there. That’s a big damn deal I think.

    Comment by happyfeet — 2/17/2009 @ 1:31 pm

21. Bravo, Patterico.

    Happy Anniversary!

    You’re the only conservative blog I’m aware of that lets liberals play to win.

    That sets you apart in two ways: it makes your blog a model of free speech and free-thought and it helps steer your commenters away from easy assumptions, while assuring them that whatever arguments may well be tested.

    The conservative movement can only benefit from that.

    Comment by Hax Vobiscum — 2/17/2009 @ 1:40 pm

22. oh. I know other blogs what lets liberal peoples comment. You can ask me which ones but I won’t tell you.

    Comment by happyfeet — 2/17/2009 @ 1:43 pm

23. I sooooo enjoy happyfeet. Hacks, not so much.

    Comment by JD — 2/17/2009 @ 1:44 pm

24. Conservative blogs that let liberals “play to win” often get overrun with trolls. Patrick has more patience than I do and spends time rooting out the worst of the trolls. Liberal blogs mostly delete comments that don’t agree with them.

    Comment by Mike K — 2/17/2009 @ 1:46 pm

25. Congratulations, Patterico. Yours is still the only blog I read or comment on regularly.

    Comment by Leviticus — 2/17/2009 @ 1:51 pm

26. That’s “congratulations on 6 successful years”, not “congratulations that yours is the only blog I read or comment on regularly.” My ego’s not that big.

    Heh. The English language is a slippery devil.

    Comment by Leviticus — 2/17/2009 @ 1:53 pm

27. Happy Birthday and congrats.

    Great writing probably the cause of your success : )

    Comment by The Machiavellian — 2/17/2009 @ 2:33 pm

28. Very well done, and many more!

    Comment by EW1(SG) — 2/17/2009 @ 3:41 pm

29. Happy anniversary, and thanks for the information and entertainment!

    Comment by Patricia — 2/17/2009 @ 5:46 pm

30. A very happy blogiversary to you! Thank you for your commitment to fearlessly rooting out the truth – no matter how ugly, gnarly or shocking it may be!

    Comment by Dana — 2/17/2009 @ 5:55 pm

31. In a mexico city hotel bar, the band just played “happy birthday.” Not a coincidence. Felicidades!

    Comment by carlitos — 2/17/2009 @ 6:22 pm

32. Congratulations, Patter-EE-koh, yours is the only blog I read or comment on regularly … unlike Lvi my ego is that gi-normus. LOL.

    Comment by Obama über alles!!!!! — 2/17/2009 @ 6:24 pm

33. And thank you for reading the LAT so we don’t have to.

    Comment by Patricia — 2/17/2009 @ 7:44 pm

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