Via Meadia footsteps

There's a post-Thanksgiving profusion of interesting material at Walter Russell Mead's blog Via Meadia, on subjects as diverse as a 19th century asteroid near-miss, developments in Gaza and Egypt, and Andrew Sullivan's apoplecticism. As I've ramped up blogging somewhat lately (and ramped down Twitter), I've viewed Via Meadia as something of a model of the substantive yet eclectic blogging I aspire to (though I believe Mead has some staffers to help, unlike some).