Originally published at: Remembering Kevin Drum - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Kevin Drum died on Friday. Many of you knew Kevin’s blog. For those who didn’t he was one of the first well-known politics bloggers dating back to early in the first George W. Bush administration and he never stopped. His last post was three days before he died. He began as “Calpundit” and then took…
Calpundit, TPM, and a young Matthew Yglesias gave me more insight into US politics than any other 10 publications in the early 2000’s by a long shot.
I’m so sad about Kevin’s passing. I did get to meet him and Ariana Huffington at some ad hoc blogger get together at the LA Farmers Market. In classic KD fashion, he’d worked out a perfectly logical seating arrangement where all of us looky-loos got to rotate through meeting and chatting with the bloggers. He was plain spoken and perfectly delightful in person.
RIP Kevin
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