anniversary

Josh Marshall celebrates the third year of his Talking Points Memo blog. Congratulations.

He's a brainy guy who is often found reporting for Washington Monthly or writing a column for the DC legislative newspaper The Hill.

His blog reports must be read by newspaper assignment editors, because often a few days after he lets his readers in on a tidbit, stories follow. He is a liberal Democrat, but in the best sense of that word, in that he is rational and is not afraid to argue what he thinks on the merits rather than any pre-programmed point of view.

To put it another way, if he is a hack, he is a thinking hack.