This is not a Best of 2008 list. There were many best, and I surely overlooked many. There were too many even to read.

This is not a complete list of all the posts that I liked best. The bookkeeping is too hard. I didn't keep track and they're a pain to search.

Also, the nature of some of it doesn't lend itself to picking out and listing later as a recommended reading. Politics changes quickly and very quickly becomes, quite literally, “yesterday's news.” In particular, Saturn Smith wrote a ton of outstanding analysis that was thoughtful, insightful, and in-the-moment. It was precisely the kind of thing I come to a site like this to read. And yet for me to point to any one post as something anyone should go back and read is hard, not because it was even wrong—much of it was right on target—but because these things move on. I managed, fortunately, to find one of her posts that has more of that enduring sense, so I'm happy to include her. But others I didn't and not always because they had nothing to say.

So here's my list, for what it's worth, in no particular order, by the way. This was accumulated by a kind of random walk through friends and friends of friends and I just took the list in the order I managed to scrounge things:

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Updated: The original post had 20 items. I later extended it,
and might add a few more as they come up.