PunkAssBlog.com

A year ago, I realized the blogosphere lacked a truly civilized hub of carefully qualified policy discussion. After considerable praying on what to do about it, God finally spoke to me. Well, not so much spoke to me as gave me a sign.

Kind of.

Because what happened was my middle finger got slammed in a door, and I was all hopping around and creatively praising His name when I looked down upon mine throbbing finger and realized it was pulsing like a beacon… a beacon calling to anyone who ever desired centrist political commentary delivered dispassionately and reverently.

[Insert choral "Aahhhh."]

After that, I scooted over to Pandagon to rescue a few souls from that hedonistic hellhole. I tossed my finger in the faces of Kyso Kisaen and R Mildred, awakening them from their Sapphic trance, and threw it in the face of a guy on the street corner who turned out to be McBoing. Together we agreed to become punkasses who fought for moderate interpretation and playing it safe. [We tried to make a cool handshake, but McBoing kept accidentally dislocating our thumbs.]

And lo, on April 14th, 2006, punkassblog.com was born. We hoisted a God-fearing image of my middle finger, now our middle finger, to the rafters so that it might be seen throughout these series of tubes by the masses.

Now, one year later, over 3200 unique visitors a day genuflect at the finger, devouring over 30,000 of our punkasswafers of truth a day. It’s truly been a miraculous adventure.

Along the way, we lost R Mildred to squirtier pastures, and McBoing became someone with a busy job and stuff, but we’ve also added our very own expert on the Science of Junk. Now, Kyso, junk science, and I forage bravely ahead into Year 2 of Our Finger ready for action:

We’re even better outfitted than our troops!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to share with us — thanks to our regular readers, our occasional readers, and pretty much everyone except our trolls. Thanks to our first commenter, Betty Cracker, our first frequent commenter, elfinity, our most recent commenter, Jonah, and everyone else who took the time to comment in between.

And now, on this special day, if you could do us one favor, we’d be humbly grateful. Our first ever post, written by Kyso, has 0 comments. Instead of commenting here, if you have a minute, please head over to that first post and leave any comment you like. It would mean a lot to see how much we’ve really grown since day one on the spot where it all started.

For all of us, and for my middle finger, thanks again for being a part of our community.

Unless you’re a troll.