Thanks so much for the forum and all the hard work and putting up with me for almost 9 of those years.  I remember when I first found TL by accident, starting reading so much stuff that I was always thinking about...all thats f*cked up about our criminal justice system and our political system and all our systems.  

Eternal gratitude Jeralyn, BTD, TChris, Little Rock and all my knucklehead commenting buddies, for real.

I will try to get a little something something together in gratitude and in the post next paycheck.  

I came in about the time the Libby investigation was gaining traction and stayed because the quality of the work here was as good or better than anything the lamestream media puts out.  More to the point, this is also an educational resource of the first order.

It has not just been the illuminating legal, political and sports commentary that keeps me here. I have also developed several internet friendships with people here, people I would not have met were it not for TL. So, thanks for letting me get to know Jeff and kdog and Zorba and Anne and ruffian (go, Cubs?) and oculus and nycstray and Dadler and MT (and the whole MT family) and Towanda and so many more.

So, there's a gift coming your way, but I'm subtracting 10 cents for every time my posts have been deleted. (and, believe me, that's a lot of cents.)

This is my 325th comment since joining, or at least commenting first, in 2008. I'm pretty sure I was aware of the site well before that, I'm not one to "jump in," I like to dip my toe in the water first. 325 is a ridiculously low number, there are Internet and Blog denizens who do that for breakfast I bet, but it is by far the most comments made by me on any blog, so I must really like the place.

I was reviewing some of my posts and man did the 2008 Primaries irk me. I thought my "I'll put Bork on the Court myself" hyperbole is kinda funny although I rarely laughed at the time. I'm surprised I wasn't bounced out of here for that. :) But let's not relitigate that nightmare, I just make note of it for fun, let's keep this thread really positive.

I hope you have another 10 years and thanks for providing me a home!

On second thought...hmmmmm...

Anyway congratulations Jeralyn and BTD and other guest contributors and commenters that have enlightened us.

Came here in 2007/8 and never left.  Thanks for giving me a place to rant about stuff without feeling like a crazy person or having to deal with the usual internet rif-raf.

And here's to another successful ten years, during which we might be gushing about our new grandchildren, and our own plans to shamelessly indulge them.

It's been mostly cloudy the last few days, and a very muggy 90 to 95 degrees (which I'm estimating, based on the Celsius temperature). They're expecting thunderstorms later tonight, but we've been pretty lucky thus far in not getting caught in downpours.

Hue is an absolutely fascinating and beautiful place, as befitting Vietnam's former royal capital, and the old city almost rivals Cambodia's Angkor Wat. Looking at it today, one would never know that 44 years ago, U.S. and North Vietnamese troops were slugging it out on the ground here.

You think PPJ has got it tough 'round here now you shoulda seen the pre-Iraq War old days...JLvngstn challenged PPJ to a donnybrook!  I got hot with him a few times and called him names. And don't get PPJ started on Dark Avenger;)

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."