You know it's a power blog when the author gets A Letter From the Editor—of the Economist no less.
Even though the Economist is going through a bad patch — predictable leaders, a US columnist who uncritically recites GOP spin points, and less coverage of out-of-the-way places like Albania than it used to have — that's still quite something.
To borrow a phrase from the British left, it’s somewhat like being savaged by a dead sheep