It's a sad day for the conservative blogging world - the Sox blog will blog no more.
Since I first read one of his epic missives, or humorous FAQs , I was struck by how great a writter he was. Not just as a stylist, although on that front he can hardly be faulted, but as a sensative and thought provoking commentator he embodied everything that is good about the conservative online movement.
It was on account of his incisiveness on everything from Iraq to Boston sports hegemony, that the workaday reader could reach out and touch the important issues of the political world; his words let us grasp, perhaps only for a moment, what had before seemed distant and incomprehensible. Barnett's arguments enabled the wired conservative to clear away the dross of the political world and see the necessary principles, which are the true motivators of action.
Although Mr. Barnett is not leaving us for ever, instead moving genres to the Daily Standard, he leaves his post at HughHewitt.com as one of the few contributers of sense in an raucous and factitious climate of modern punditry.
He will be sorely missed.
UPDATE: You can also visit the SoxBlog and put something in the tip jar to show your appreciation for all of Dean's work.
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