Thank you, Ben

Josh Marshall was starting to feel sort of bad for young Ben Domenech, the Post.com blogger added to "balance" the "liberal bias" of Dan Froomkin, but whose tenure lasted nary a week. That is, until Ben gave his lofty farewell.

To my friends: thank you for your support. To my enemies: I take enormous solace in the fact that you spent this week bashing me, instead of America.

Writes Josh,

Ben, thank you. Thank you for taking all these blows on America's behalf. Thank you lifting passages out of other people's prose so America could take a breather. Thank you for slandering cherished American heroes for America's sake.

And thank you, James Brady, for proving you can, as was once said of their intellectual forebear, you can wade through our leading young Republican lights' deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet.