{"id":8772,"date":"2010-02-24T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:07:07","slug":"around-the-mob-jay-reding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8772","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Jay Reding"},"content":{"rendered":"

I amost feel like I’m switching into Telethon mode now.\u00a0 Because the subject of today’s stop on the tour around the MOB has been one of my favorite MOB blogs since the very early days of this blog – is, indeed, one of very few Minnesota blogs that was actually blogging before I was.\u00a0 And it’s one of the single best, most incisively analytical poltical blogs (with a healthy side of geekery) ever on the Minnesota blog scene.\u00a0 In a just world, he’d be as big as Ed Morrissey – his writing and analysis has always been in that league – and his blog would have the traffic to show it.<\/p>\n

It’s Jay Reding<\/a>.\u00a0 JR’s blog dates back to 2001, and from about 2003 through 2006 or so, he was writing great stuff nearly daily.<\/p>\n

As with so many bloggers, personal life gets in the way; Reding (if I recall correctly) went to law school somewhere along the way, and if all went well he should be into all that “new lawyer” stuff by now.\u00a0 Either way, updates have been a little scarcer lately.<\/p>\n

Excerpt?\u00a0 With that much material to choose from?\u00a0 Hard to do.\u00a0 Here’s a bit from his look back at his 2009 predictions:<\/p>\n

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Politics\/National<\/h3>\n