Patterico's Pontifications

2/17/2018

Happy Blogiversary to Me

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:00 am



Today is a milestone of sorts. This blog began 15 years ago today, on February 17, 2003. I was 34 years old. I turn 50 later this year. My daughter had recently had her third birthday, and my son was four months old. Now my daughter is an adult. She can vote. My son is 15 and almost old enough to drive.

A lot of you have been around an awfully long time. I appreciate every reader and commenter (OK, most of them) — especially the longtime readers.

Thanks for reading, and spread the word!

[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]

43 Responses to “Happy Blogiversary to Me”

  1. Thanks for being here, and thanks for putting up with me all these years. Time flies.

    ropelight (1b4d8d)

  2. Congrats. I wasn’t aware you are that young.

    Rev.Hoagie (6bbda7)

  3. Congrats and may you see many more!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  4. Happy 15th, Patterico. You’re carrying the fire. Keep it up.

    Leviticus (924d70)

  5. I’d like to thank you for the time and effort you put in. I was once an avid consumer of MSM; had all three weeklies on subscription, our local daily paper, plus monthly contributions to NPR. All gone. I read you and a select group of blogs every day, plus checking Real Clear Politics to check out the other side. You and your fellow bloggers are making a difference.

    Bruce Abbott (25217b)

  6. Covfefe!

    Dave (445e97)

  7. Happy 15th – here’s hoping you have many positive things to post about in the future.

    harkin (8256c3)

  8. Congrats on your longevity and thanks for enduring the Gauntlet.

    Ben burn (b3d5ab)

  9. Patterico and I had offices on the same floor when someone told me about his column. This has to be about 2006. I started reading this blog and he got transferred. I did not have the pleasure of meeting him in person until years later. Happy Blogiversary!

    AZ Bob (f60c80)

  10. Congrats!! Glad you started this blog, been following ever since the days of arguing with Jerylyn Merritt at her blog. Keep
    Up the good work.

    Patrick (c713c5)

  11. I do sincerely appreciate your service Patrick, we have disagreements but I see it as a socratic dialogue, to provide this in addition to your work in the city of angels is kind of extraordinary.

    narciso (d1f714)

  12. this is a nice blog i really like it

    sometimes i wish you weren’t so hard on our president, President Donald Trump

    but not all of us are free to love him with our whole heart like i am and i definitely understand that and I think he does too

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  13. Many happy returns, Patterico. Beats me why you do it, but I appreciate that you do.

    nk (dbc370)

  14. Congratulations! And thanks for all the fish. 🙂

    Bask in the knowledge today you have helped to change the way we think in this country. And that’s a good thing.

    Patricia (3363ec)

  15. Happy 15th blogiversary to you! The world is a better place because of you.

    felipe (023cc9)

  16. Thanks for all your hard work. I don’t know how you do it. I think I found you sometime in the first year of this blog probably through Insty, or believe it or not, LGF. Those were the days. Again I don’t always agree with you but I appreciate your efforts. If I may, just a shout out to some commenters past: JD, milhouse, daleyrocks, carlitos, lissa and Brad Fikes(sp?). I hope you are all doing well.

    Ipso Fatso (7e1c8e)

  17. Congratulations indeed, one of the best blogs ever, I haven’t missed a day in years and I’ve had to read some posts on a tiny screen phone.

    Even the touch of TDS is well done and your toleration of our most idiotic comments is very kind.

    Fred Z (05d938)

  18. This is a significant milestone, and I hope you’ll celebrate it by giving your family some special treat, Patterico. Those of us who know you only through this blog cannot see, day to day, how you manage to squeeze the blog into a life that also includes that family and an important (but surely very challenging and draining) day-job, plus a further assortment of hobbies and interests (some of which, like your musical interests, we also get a glimpse of here).

    You’ve had some assistance from some remarkably simpatico and well-adjusted co-bloggers who’ve helped carry the load. I salute them!

    But you are the sine qua non of Patterico’s Pontifications. Long may you pontificate.

    Beldar (fa637a)

  19. I very much appreciate the time and effort you put in to make this blog as interesting and informative as it is. Thanks too to many long time commenters.

    Stu707 (ad925f)

  20. Best wishes and congratulations, Patterico!

    Simon Jester (2d9cb4)

  21. Congratulations. Good luck on another 15 years.

    NJRob (b00189)

  22. Congratulations!

    Kishnevi (712fff)

  23. Congratulations, and many more years here and whatever medium becomes the next great communications platform.

    urbanleftbehind (32f72a)

  24. It’s a wierd thing; I’ve been here since 2003, too. I stumbled into this blog, IIRC, because of discussion of the recall. At the time there was a loosely affiliated alliance of center-right California blogs called “the Bear Flag League”, and this seems to be the only one which has survived (although I still talk to the owner of CalBlog on Facebook, sometimes).

    aphrael (71b050)

  25. Congrats. Time flies when you’re having fun.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  26. Congrats, very few blogs give a daily dos of thoughtful insight for 5 years much less 15

    EPWJ (4dc563)

  27. It’s a wierd thing; I’ve been here since 2003, too. I stumbled into this blog, IIRC, because of discussion of the recall. At the time there was a loosely affiliated alliance of center-right California blogs called “the Bear Flag League”, and this seems to be the only one which has survived (although I still talk to the owner of CalBlog on Facebook, sometimes).

    Yes. We had a couple of meetups and one was even a rather big shindig. A guy from the Sacramento Bee spoke and Kevin Drum attended. I got a shoutout from the speaker and all these people (dozens) there applauded me as if they knew who I was. It was kinda crazy.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  28. Thanks, everyone who is saying such nice things!

    Patterico (115b1f)

  29. Fifteen years of the liveliest and most informative party on the internet. Thank you for being such a good host.

    crazy (d99a88)

  30. Postscript. Gets one to thinking, P. When you started this blog they were collecting pieces of Columbia from the Texas countryside and SpaceX was a year old. Now the space shuttle is the stuff of museums along side 35mm cameras, typewriters and land line telephones.

    We pretty much accept change around us as part of the progress of life. But consider the accelerated rate of change in so many aspects of life we’ve experienced since 2003 and it’s simply mind-boggling. From Twitter to disposable smartphones– it’s a brave new world ever 18 months.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  31. Good Vibrations

    — recorded by The Beach Boys on this date, 1966.

    papertiger (c8116c)

  32. Happy 15th blogiversary! And here’s to many more.

    Jeff Lebowski (02253b)

  33. Congratulations and thanks. I was unaware we are the same age.

    Pinandpuller (15ea4a)

  34. I remember attending an event with the Iraqi bloggers. Remember Iraq the Model? And I think Patrick was there. Seems crazy that it was so long ago, a few presidents ago. In retrospect, even though the war was badly prosecuted, it opened up the ME to the world. Those guys were like lost voyagers who finally managed to find their way home.

    And like I said, blogs changed the world; it was the beginning of a preference cascade as Insty terms it.

    So thanks for hanging in. Wonder what the next 15 years will bring.

    Patricia (3363ec)

  35. Strong work. And all that implies.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  36. Congratulations, Patterico! 15 years is a pretty long time. I’ve been around almost as long, and have seen lots of blogs come and go, so, 15 years is awesome. Keep it up!

    William Teach (bceeb2)

  37. Late to the party, again, but congratulations and a very heartfelt thank you. Here’s to as many more years as your family (and thanks to them for sharing you with us) will tolerate.

    Matador (39e0cd)

  38. Congratulations!

    neal (0754ae)

  39. I am absolutely amazed that you’ve had the energy to keep this going for 15 years. I lasted maybe two. Heartfelt congratulations, Patrick.

    Kevin M (752a26)

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    Kevin M (752a26)

  41. I’m rather more fond of our current President than you are. But I find it very easy to will that all prosecutors would be more like you and less like immune-compromised sewer rats. Thanks for all you do on the blog and off it.

    phunctor (bf276f)

  42. Congrats on the blogiversary. Been reading you since not long after you started which makes me… dear God, I am getting old.

    physics geek (62804f)

  43. Happy Blogiversary and I hope you’re well soon.

    Tillman (a95660)


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