Just wanted to note, for the record, a couple of things I was involved in outside this site.

Yesterday I was one of 41 journalists (I'm pretty sure the list has grown since it was first published) signing onto an open letter to ABC deploring the tone and content of the Democratic presidential debate the network sponsored on Wednesday. Given what I've posted here on the subject, it seemed like a natural step to take. But I do want to make it clear I was acting solely for myself, and not for TDS or its co-editors.

I also did a post at TPMCafe commenting negatively on an effort by Jamie Kirchick of The New Republic (disputed on their site by Jonathan Chait and Isaac Chotiner) to defend the proposition that Sen. Joe Lieberman's endorsement and active campaigning for John McCain is compatible with his past protestations of loyalty to the Democratic Party. I wrote this because I thought it would be useful to hear a Joe's-Crossed-the-Final-Line argument from someone who's never been accused of Lieberman-hatred or TNR-hatred--particularly someone who doesn't accept the idea that Lieberman's been some sort of crypto-Republican all along.