The Best Blog on the Internet?

It’s the best magazine-related blogging on the whole Internet, according to the American Society of Magazine Editors! It’s The Best Defense: Tom Ricks’ Daily Take on National Security, at the website of Foreign Policy magazine. Unfortunately, Tom Ricks himself, who was twice on Pulitzer-winning teams in the 00s, was unable to get online yesterday to blog about it (“rare technical difficulties”). For me the most fascinating thing though about Best Defense is the commenters, who are apparently all current or former military? Also I’d love to see the financials on running such a site (Foreign Policy overall seems to have the same advertiser crowd as the D.C. Metro: Boeing, et al.) In any event, it’s worth adding to your RSS and it’s also worth noting as a data point that the award didn’t exactly go to Cosmo or whatever.