And yes, it continues to be true that I have blogged on every single day of those 21 years.
And not just to keep up the record! I've loved it continuously from Day 1. It's been a pleasure. Thanks to everyone who's been reading, even if it hasn't been for the entire 21 years. You're here today, and that's the most bloggy thing.
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Congratulations! Your blog is legal to have a glass of champagne to celebrate.
Congratulations!
I don’t remember exactly when I started reading your blog, but it was through following an Instapundit link, probably in that first year. At the time, I scanned many blogs every day. Today, there are two blogs on my daily reading list—Instapundit and Althouse.
Congratulations!
Yeah, the blog can drink now. Congratulations!
congrads! so, by my math; you were 54 when you started your new career?
The Althouse blog is the greatest blog in the universe!
…let’s all buy it drinks until it gets shitfaced and barfs in the parking lot…
Congratulations on your bloggiversary! Thank you for continually find interesting topics to read about and discuss.
I’ll refrain from how-I-got-heres and say I’m still here because of the curated content and the eclectic commentariat. Everybody…
You’re pretty amazing, prof. I wonder if I commented on the first post, first day.
Happy Happy and thanks for your work.
Congratulations!
"You’re pretty amazing, prof. I wonder if I commented on the first post, first day."
It's not too late to comment on that first post... and it was never possible to comment on the first day.
Happy Blog Anniversary and Belated Birthday!
Congratulations! I'm a very rare commenter but regular reader since the early days. Thank you for all of your work and for creating a spot that foster such interesting conversation in the comments!
Two days late, but Happy 73. Long before emojis we radio operators used a number code to shorten messages, a system we shared with telegraph. "73" means "good luck", and to this day it is heard in sports venues with Morse-clapping. When you hear CLAP-CLAP-clap-clap-clap ... clap-clap-clap-CLAP-[CLAP] it is Morse for 73.
I first showed up in April or May '04 -- h/t Katzman -- and you've been a 3x-daily presence ever since, due to the ongoing blend of erudite, esoteric, personal, and legal. Thanks for sharing your mind, heart, joy and optimism with us all for so long.
Awesome milestone! I’m very grateful for this diamond in the rough blog place. Congrats!
Congratulations. I read your blog daily.
Very impressive. Congratulations I have no idea how you do it.
One more year. Good work.
Congratulations. I follow your blog closely, but don't often comment if it's just to repeat an earlier post. May you have many more good years. Since we're about the same age, I want to have Althouse around as long as I am.
Thank you, Professor. I visit nearly every day and you have given us something worth considering and celebrating.
At 8:38 EST there are 21 comments on the 21st anniversary.
Can't remember when I first read the blog, but I'm grateful for your efforts. Congratulations and Happy Blirthday ! A blog anniversary is a Blirthday, right?
Thanks very much for your postings. Reading them with my morning coffee is a fine way to start the day. You're very witty and have an interest in a lot of subjects that would otherwise pass unnoticed by me. Again, thanks.
Congrats, Ann !
Exactly my comment! I came through Instapundit blog roll, and these are the two blogs I still read all these years later. You are my morning coffee companion and evening check in. Thank you!
Your blog is an integral part of my morning...coffee and Althouse...two sources of brain tingles. My daughter is often amazed at what I seem to be "in know about" and I'll honestly share that I read about it on Althouse. A sincere thank you to both you and Meade for your generous hospitality.
"Two days late, but Happy 73."
You are a year and 2 days late. I turned 74 on January 12th.
I didn't mention it because for blog purposes, the bloggiversary is more important.
Althouse - where the best fisking in the world happens. Congrats!
Congratulations and thank you! And, what a gift to discover an avocation you enjoy so much that you want to do it every day for decades.
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations! Althouse blog, the last bastion of free speech.
Congrats! It’s quite an accomplishment.
I started reading your blog to get information on the insurrection in Madison.
Pretty much my story. Congratulations, Ann
Congratulations! Somehow I discovered your blog during the “troubles” of the Wisconsin Capitol occupation, etc. Since then I don’t think I’ve missed a day checking your blog. In fact, the day Trump was shot I saw it here first. Thank you for your service, for indeed it is.
What an impressive achievement! Professor, you have long been one of the premier legal and lifestyle bloggers, yet you keep raising the bar... One of my favorite periods was during your stint at Brooklyn Law when you posted so many interesting photos.
Congratulations! I've been wondering about that for a bit now. I knew you started after 9/11 (I'm usually terrible with dates but that one's a pretty significant marker) because I knew I was reading Glenn Reynolds on MSNBC and Slate even before I started reading him every day on instapundit.com a few months before 9/11, and I knew I started reading you because he would often link to you. I'm grateful I've had access to your writing all those years (even if you often are a bit cagey keeping your actual thoughts to yourself) because it gives me a sense that I'm **actually** truth-seeking, and not just searching for an echo chamber.
Thanks for what you do and congratulations. I come here eve4y day to see what’s up and what has snagged your attention. I was absent for the last six months of Trump’s first administration and the first two years of Biden. It was a self imposed exile to maintain my sanity. I basically took a break from current events.
Still my fist read of the morning and the only place I contribute. Thanks Althouse.
Do we know if anyone else in the world has blogged for 21 years straight?
Congratulations, Professor. Love this extraordinary place you've created. Best place on the internet. You're amazing. Thanks!
One of my morning go-to reads. I love the pictures of the changing seasons in Wisconsin.
Cheers. Congrats. Your blog is now old enough to read some of the comments.
It's my first blog read every day. I'm glad it you enjoy it. I think that affects the work.
I haven't been here for the entire 21 years...but I have been here lurking at first for over 10 years!! This is the 1st place I visit when I get up at 3 or 4 am every morning. Love the comments. I have learned a lot! Thanks for hosting!!
Same here, Tim. Love ya, Professor!
. . . with a wonderful commentariat (with the few notable exceptions)!
I've reading everyday for many years.....thank you Ann!
Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work!!
Wow. Another year has gone by so quickly. Another year and I still cannot believe you have done this every day for 21 years. I haven't done anything every day for 21 years outside of waking up. And even that's hard to do much of the time.
I'm sure there is a Blogger Hall of Fame somewhere, or there will be someday.
You will be among the first ballot placements into that Hall. Congratulations and...Thank You! We are all better for this.
Another congratulations! The first place I go every morning, and often the last at night as well.
Me too!
Dear Ann: You provide an invaluable service, which brings people together at a time when this is becoming more rare. Thank you for starting my day for over 2 decades!
Sometimes I feel guilty using this blog as a personal journal, or using your posts for writing prompts that maybe result in comments that are not exactly on point, but I appreciate your patience a great deal.
I also came here from Instapundit, probably on the date that my profile was created, but I learned enough about critical analysis of texts here to finally leave that sordid sump of neocon propaganda behind.
A couple of the contrarian commenters here changed my thinking too, like Ritmo. Sure he was a jerk, but he made some solid points. Others are just broken records of the same crap you can get if you can stomach cable news, and by them refusing to answer any points made, they simply become a background hum, easily ignored.
Congrats and Thanks!
Thanks Ann! I started because of curiosity with our shared last name but was hooked right away.
You're the best. Here's a glass hoping for many more.
Ann Althouse said...
It's not too late to comment on that first post... and it was never possible to comment on the first day.
I wasn't here on the first day but arrived on September 13, 2006 for Jessica Valenti Boob Gate, so I thought I would leave my "I arrived on Althouse. . ." comment on that post. But it's Closed! For good reason. Like others, you are my first landing spot every single morning.
Nice. Your mind seems to wander off in many interesting directions. I like that about you.
Thanks for loving what you do and for allowing us to share in it once again.
Thanks for loving what you do and for allowing us to share in it once again.
Goodonya!
Congratulations! I started reading your blog around the time that you and Meade married, and it has ever since been part of my daily read. You are the U.S. ConLaw Professor I never had! Thank you and keep at it, please!
Brava and thanks. Been reading and occasionally commenting on this blog for about 20 years. Thinking back to the early days, does anyone else remember Sippican Cottage? (No clue why, reading today's post, he came to mind but whatever.) He was a regular (and quite good) presence in the comments for quite a while in the early days, and then (for reasons that were never apparent) went through all the posts and deleted every comment he had made. Strange what people do but each has his reasons. Just a small part of the history of what AA created.
We miss you in Brooklyn!
Congratulations; remarkable consistency and high quality
Congratulations! Your consistency is the diametric opposite of foolishness.
If you do what you love, you’ll never have a day off for the rest of your life.
Thanks, Professor. I've been here from the beginning, or close to it, but only started commenting recently, and very occasionally. Your commenting community is so interesting and valuable (Hi Temujin!). Thanks for hosting us, and good luck ousting the trolls.
It must be a heavy burden to have never missed a day in 21 years. I would probably just skip a day and then I would not have to worry about it, but I appreciate the effort and the blog, thanks.
Kudos and thank you, Ann
Remarkable accomplishment. Thanks Ann.
I read Althouse every day, ever since you had to swap your bug for a TT.
(I missed a few years due to Moderationgate).
This is, without question, the very best Blog in the world.
He's still around, has his own blog site.
A sanctuary city, this. Thanks, Ann.
I missed the first 7 years. Only found the blog shortly before the Act 10 protests/insurrection.
Congratulations- an impressive streak… 😎
I wasn't here for the infancy and childhood, but have enjoyed the teen years and look forward to the young adult blog.
Yeoman's work, thank you and congratulations!
Best blog in the blogosphere without a doubt and our blogger is clearly the Cal Ripken Jr. of blogging.
I don't comment much but did want to say thanks to Ms Althouse for keeping the blogging flame alight. I am, like many that have commented on this, a long time reader, probably led here by Instapundit. I don't spend that much time with blogs anymore, but Althouse is my first stop every morning and has been since I first landed here. I like the often contrarian takes on topical things and the rabbit trails you've led me down over the years. Here's to many more years of quality blogging.
Congratulations! Many thanks!
Congrats, Althouse
I wasn't there for day one. I recall Instapundit often quoted and/or linked to you, back in the earlies, and that's how I found this blog. And I've read it regularly daily ever since.
Thanks for being such a positive and informative and entertaining part of my life.
Congratulations! I can't remember exactly when I started reading, but I know that it soon became a daily routine. You offer something unique that I can't find elsewhere online.
A very happy Birthday to the Professor. And congratulations on your blog being old enough to drink and buy smokes.
This blog is amazing for many reasons- to me, the most important is the variety of topics, the connections made, and my favorite parts, when Ann dissects sentence structure.
A wonderful spot on the net, to which I have visited many 3am mornings( It's 9 in Madison)
Here's to many more Birthdays, and many more early morning ramblings.
Awesome. I wish I could better date the year I started reading. I know it was in the early years but I don't think I became a daily reader until in the 2010s.
Happy blogiversary! I have been reading since probably summer of 2004.... almost never comment here but I greatly appreciate your perspective!
I'm pretty sure I came here through Instapundit. Don't remember exactly when, but it was long before the 2008 election. I've long since stopped paying attention to Instapundit but have continued to come here more or less every day. I comment only rarely, and only on non-political stuff. One thing I have noticed is that the political stuff has become a lot more prevalent.
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