I have been writing for RedState for over a year, and this is my first weekend without it. Many of you visiting from the RedState site might be on the edge of a similar separation anxiety. We are all in this together.

My hit count is telling me just how big RedState has become.

Tavis Smiley. I flicked to XM Radio’s “Public Radio” channel (133) and heard the start of the Tavis Smiley show. He declared 2005 to be the year of “death, destruction, denial,” and he had a panel on to discuss… death, destruction, denial: Cornell West, author Michael Eric “Mike” Dyson, Constance “Connie” Rice, and syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock. I have a mental picture of Murdock being forced to sit behind a curtain, with his microphone turned on only at Tavis’s whimsical decree.

Tavis said that he was looking for bright spots, and he turned to Rice. She declared that Hurricane Katrina attacked poor people, as did the rescuers. BushLied™, war on the impoverished, etc.

I tuned out and put on Chris Wallace in for Brit.

By the bye, one of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame’s twins declared for all to hear that his “daddy is famous, my mommy’s a secret spy.” Daddy must have wanted to frog-march the 5-year-old, but we don’t want to think about that.