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Agitator Adolescence

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Just realized that Sunday marked the eighth anniversary of this blog.

Many of the college students I spoke to this weekend were in elementary school when I started blogging.

That’s crazy.

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11 Responses to “Agitator Adolescence”

  1. #1 |  Dog's New Clothes |  February 17th, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    Hey, I was in middle school!

    Congrats though. Unfortunately, there’s no real correlation between longevity and talent in the blogosphere (see Reynolds, Glenn), but you’re an exception.

  2. #2 |  Max |  February 17th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    I was a freshman in high school thank you very much. And lucky for us that gave you time to build up your blogs reader base so it was a lot easier to find!

  3. #3 |  CharlesWT |  February 17th, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    I’ve got socks older than this blog. :)

  4. #4 |  Packratt |  February 17th, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Congrats on 8 years of great writing, thank you for all the hard work you do to keep everyone informed!

    (and yes, I have two kids older than this blog.)

  5. #5 |  claude |  February 17th, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    LOL

    Keep up the good work!

  6. #6 |  Matt |  February 17th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    Now doesn’t that just make you feel old?

  7. #7 |  Eric |  February 17th, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    After 2900 days, you are still daily reading. Here’s the comment I wrote you when you turned one (http://www.theagitator.com/2003/02/06/one/)

    Congratulations, Radley. Keep up the good work.

    When I first got an e-mail from you saying that you had started a “blog,” I didn’t even know what a “blog” was. I’m pretty sure I sent you a reply making fun of you.

    And now here we are, a year and 100,000 blogs later.

    Long live theagitator.com!

  8. #8 |  john |  February 18th, 2010 at 8:47 am

    congrats!!!

  9. #9 |  Johnny Longtorso |  February 18th, 2010 at 9:36 am

    Your earliest posts seem to have been eaten (I looked for your very first one). This is as far as I could get back in time:

    http://www.theagitator.com/2002/04/page/7/

  10. #10 |  Balloon Maker |  February 18th, 2010 at 11:04 am

    I’m not quite an original agitator gangsta, but I’ve been reading for close to 5 years. Most blogs hold my attention for about 8 months.

  11. #11 |  You! Slow Down! |  February 18th, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    What scares me is most college students today hadn’t even been born yet when the Berlin Wall came down. And they have never known a time when there weren’t metal detectors in schools and surveillance cameras in public. They were still in diapers when Waco and Ruby Ridge happened. Vietnam? Ancient history.

    My generation’s signature event was the Berlin Wall coming down. Theirs was 9/11. A giant step forward for freedom versus a giant step back.

    Either this means (1) we’re screwed, or (2) we can hope against hope that they begin rebelling against the warfare/welfare/surveillance state they grew up in the way the Baby Boomers rebelled against the stuffy conformity of the 1950s.

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