Now, there are a few awesome folks whom we'd surely like to hear more from these days. Some tell us they're keeping their powder dry until the "pie fight" is over, and that's cool. "Whatever gets you through the night," as John Winston/Ono Lennon once said.

But they also serve who stand and don't wait. And few have done that like one Lambert Strether.

He was blogging when the leftysphere stood against the conventional wisdom.