For those of you who haven’t come across it already, The American Prospect has a blog of its own, TAPPED, which is actually kind of fun to read.

I’ve even given it a permalink.

Anyway, I decided the other day to drop them a blogwarming note:

Dear Tapped-ers,

Glad to see TAP’s entered the blog fray.

One small thing: any chance you’ll add the names of the writers to their respective posts? Makes it easier for other bloggers to reference them individually (unless… wait, this isn’t one of those “progressive” things, is it…?)

Best of luck,

Jeff G.

Jeff Goldstein

protein wisdom

Department of English and Creative Writing

University of Denver

To which Tapped replied:

Jeff,

Deep down, like most liberals, we’re really Communists. Hence the groupthink.

best,

Tapped

Do they have a sense of humor that far to the left? Likely. Were they being serious, regardless? Likely. At any rate, I replied:

Dear Tapped,

If that’s the case, why keep billing me for my magazine subscription? Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.

You filthy Red Jackals, you.

Still, I do like the site. (And for the record, yes, I do subscribe to the magazine. I likewise subscribe to The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The National Review, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, American Enterprise, and U.S. News and World Report. Oh, and Mad.

Why such a broad political array? Well, you know — “Rows and flows of angel hair / And ice cream castles in the air / And feather canyons everywhere / I’ve looked at clouds that way” — that sort of thing.

Bless your sweet hippy ass, Ms. Joni Mitchell.)

So where was I, anyway….? Oh yeah, TAPPED. Check ’em out.

And keep your fingers crossed that the Weekly Standard breaks down starts a blog, too.