It's now two years since I started this web log. Here is my first post. Originally it was just a page for me to join the discussion about Lott's fabricated survey, but the focus seems to have expanded beyond that.
To get an idea how much blog traffic has increaased, my first post got linked by Glenn Reynolds and several others commenting on the Lott affair. As a result I had almost 1000 visits after three days. Now I get almost that much traffic every day.
More like this
The Chicago Tribune reports:
Last year an anonymous person from the American Enterprise Institute
repeatedly tried and failed to remove all
criticism of Lott from his
wikipedia page. He
At the The High Road there was some discussion of the cherry picked Lott article I discussed here. One poster, "agricola", criticized Lott, linking to my blog.
On July 12 The Columbus Dispatch published a letter from Paul van Doorn replying to an earlier letter from David Mayer that I commented on. Here is an extract (hyperlinks added by me):
Considering the posts you get from the pro-gun crowd in your blog comments, you've definitely got their attention. They'd probably deny it but they are watching what you write. You're such a hit-hog, Tim...;-)
Keep up the good work, Tim.
Thanks for all the effort you've put into this, Tim.
Congrats on two years.
I appreciate your time and effort here, sir. Keep up the good work.D
My congrats as well, Tim. Keep it up--this Ph.D social scientist finds your site extremely valuable, and your careful analysis of data commendable.
An inspiration. An education. And entertaining to boot.
I was going to say you're national treasure but that's way too parochial. Your efforts here have been nothing short of amazing. So thanks.