Outside the Beltway

Longtime blogger Steve Hynd has launched a new group blog called Not The Singularity.

So, the PowerLine gang experimented with an annoying pre-load survey widget to boost revenue. A certain mustachioed Austrian is not amused.

How he went from Juicebox Mafia member to the most important young journalist in DC.

Katherine Applegate, long suffering spouse of frequent OTB commenter Michael Reynolds, has been awarded the Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children for The One and Only Ivan.

The world’s most prolific blogger is leaving corporate media and opening the tip jar.

Ronald Reagan won the tax fight. The debate now centers on whether to continue cutting taxes or slightly reverse the trend.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

John Scalzi knows that you want to be a better commenter because, “You’re a fine upstanding human being, not some feculent jackass with a keyboard, an internet connection and a blistering sense of personal inferiority that is indistinguishable from common sociopathy.”

Challenge the ideas of those with whom you disagree, not their patriotism, decency, or integrity.

Kevin Drum has been writing about his cat, Inkblot, most every Friday for the last decade. Sadly, he’s been missing since Tuesday night.

One would think that people who have decided that commenting on a political blog under their own name isn’t worth the risk of blowback would feel a certain sympathy for a scientist-astronaut who values her privacy deciding not to tell the world she was gay.