November 2004
By The November 2004 LGM archive has been fully reconstructed.
To reiterate, we need to rebuild the first year archive post-by-post because we lost the first eight months of LGM while transitioning from Blogger to WordPress. Fortunately, I saved the first several years to my own computer before the transition. I’m rebuilding one day at a time, nine years to the day, although since I started in July at some point I’ll need to dive in and reconstruct all of June. The project is only a priority in context of the upcoming 10th anniversary of LGM, at which point it would be nice to have a complete, accessible blog archive.
At this point, the blog was recording ~350 hits/day (the exact traffic is lost to history), down from about ~500/day in October. We recorded 91 posts, divided roughly evenly between myself, Lemieux, and djw. Re-reading the first few days is, of course, a grim experience. Beyond that, some posts of note:
- The Self-Immolation of the Vain (Lemieux takes on Tom Wolfe)
- Bad Dreams (djw works through election anxiety)
- Disgrace (Lemieux comes to terms with the election)
- What Is Not to Be Done and What Is to Be Done (djw on the election and the future of progressive politics)
- Institutions and Reproductive Freedom (Lemieux makes a familiar-by-now argument about abortion and U.S. institutions)
- Consequences (a friend of mine writes an angry letter to anti-gay conservatives)
- Warriors for an Endless Summer (djw on the politics of global warming)
- Russian Nukes (some thoughts on the fallout of withdrawing from the ABM)