We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/im_fairly_busy.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:03:59 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification This is probably my last post for a couple of weeks (long story...those who know, know) so here's something to fill the void while John and Beth RTB from the Milblog conference. John did a great job and I chalk up my association with Argghhh! as pure, dumb luck. "I'm with him..." as the saying goes, standing next to and pointing at the Real Power in this assemblage. Anyway, I wanted to point your attention to this. I invite you to read it and come back. I'll wait. OK?... Here's my take, FWIW: Dean's right about the speed characteristic. It's... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/im_fairly_busy.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/im_fairly_busy.html Sun, 06 May 2007 14:12:05 -0600 Maybe there's a word for what Glenn does--cruising the 'net, spotting cogent analysis and comment and giving it the spotlight it deserves, in spite of the fact that it may not have been produced nanoseconds after the event that inspired it. Feel free to coin one. Don't have to. One already exists. Glenn has become the blogosphere's version of a nexialist. SF master A.E. van Vogt invented nexialism for his Voyage of the Space Beagle, and defined a nexialist as "one skilled in the science of joining together in an orderly fashion the knowledge of one field of learning with that of other fields." Replace "joining" with "linking," and that's a durn near perfect description of what Glenn does. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/im_fairly_busy.html#comment-59741 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/im_fairly_busy.html#comment-59741 Sun, 06 May 2007 22:18:04 -0600