Tell you what . . . this 100% cold-turkey probably ain’t the best approach, is it? So let me make a small modification, just so the earlybirds have some place to light ( 
): I’ll start us an open thread in the mornings, then clear out and leave the rest of the blogging to NMC, okay? Days he’s too busy or out of pocket, folo carries on anyhow.
Awrighty then, an abbreviated peek-around finds a few things you might want to check out, viz.:
— hilzoy’s Making It Explicit (oop: truth-blurting GOPers)
— Kevin Drum’s Citigroup’s Collapse (confirming Evell Snoats)
— David Brooks’ little-starbursty The Insider’s Crusade (“This truly will be an administration that looks like America, or at least that slice of America that got double 800s on their SATs”)
— from ToL, cranky Giles Coren’s We need high culture when the index is low (“Forget Siberian flosspots. When we’re living on boiled squirrel we should turn to Tolstoy, not trash”)
— and the one I’ve been especially looking forward to ever since Nov. 4, Miz Gloria’s Relief At Last! Relief at Last! (you don’t need a sample to know it’s good)
Okay, pot-luck fans, bring your dish . . .
Hmmm. Don’t miss Steve Benen’s folo to hilzoy’s post. Good ol’ Bill Kristol redux — now why NYT might renew his contract in January, I can’t imagine. Let’s hope they’ve learned their lesson, since he can’t.