Sad because one of my go-to blogs will not be around much longer. Happy because the voice behind that blog is not falling silent, merely changing locations. Ed Morrisey, skipper of Captain's Quarters will be closing up shop at the old address. But fear not, he will be hanging out his shingle over at Hot Air.
Hot Air is proud to welcome blogger extraordinaire Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters to the staff. He’ll start cross-posting here today and we’re opening up comment registration to help bring CQ members into the fold. (Go here to register.) In the next few weeks, Ed will close down CQ and make Hot Air his exclusive home. (Update: Ed’s Hot Air e-mail address is ed@hotair.com)
Ed began blogging at Captain’s Quarters in 2003. During the past five years, his work has been published in the Washington Post, New York Post, New York Times, Weekly Standard, and other national publications. In 2007, Ed made the leap to full-time employment in New Media when he became political director for Blog Talk Radio. You can see all of his past work in the archives at Captain’s Quarters.
Ed has lived in Minnesota for more than ten years after leaving his native California. He and his wife have a son and daughter-in-law finishing their college education and a beautiful five-year-old granddaughter. He has a weekly radio show on Minnesota’s AM 1280 The Patriot every Saturday afternoon.
Ed has been a friend and kindred spirit since I entered the blogosphere. He brings keen political insights, boundless energy and optimism, and invaluable investigative skills/enterprise reporting to the team. His pioneering citizen journalism helped expose government corruption in Canada and brought down a rotten Canadian Liberal Party administration. He’s been the subject of moonbat cartoonist Ted Rall’s class bigotry and a target of Vanity Fair jerk James Wolcott’s snobbery. Ever the gentleman, Ed joked in response: “Success is when all the right people hate you.”
They have opened registration over at Hot Air for commenters so Ed's loyal flock of readers (and he has a lot) can continue to comment on Ed's posts. I've sent Ed an email offering my personal congratulations. Consider doing the same.
Ed is one of the first bloggers I began reading back when I found the blogosphere. He will be a great addition to Hot Air. Congratulations, Ed, may the seas be calm and the winds fair.
It will be a good move for Ed, I think. I hope Day By Day finds a home there — it’s a great strip and I’d hate to see it lose exposure.
I think that we are seeing the formation of a new media that will one day challenge the fat-and-lazy MSM. This is not an original observation, but it is worth repeating.
The Captain is right next to Blue Crab on my list of go-to places in the blogosphere. I guess I’ll have to check out Hot Air some time.