Dartblog

With a sweep or two through the cobwebbed recesses of their memory file on Dartmouth politics, long-time followers of the Dartmouth blogosphere may recall a once-lively corner of the internet called The Little Green Blog. I am pleased to report that LGB is lively once more!

In its former life, LGB was something like a progressive counterweight to this blog’s right-leaning campus commentary. It was founded in January 2005 by Christopher Bateman ‘05, just four months after this blog’s founding by Joe Malchow ‘08. Mr. Bateman was a staffer for the College’s left-wing rag, the Dartmouth Free Press, so from the time he graduated six months later, LGB was shepherded along by the rag’s editor in cheif, Andrew Seal ‘07. The period from September 2006 through about April 2007—my freshman year—saw pitched battles between Mr. Malchow and Mr. Seal on campus firestorms from the Indian Wars to the 2007 trustee election. I too butted heads with Mr. Seal on occasion. But in May 2007, as Mr. Seal was about to graduate, LGB sputtered, spat, and then, with no pomp or circumstance, died.

(Incidentally, the last post of LGB’s former incarnation was a report on a Memorial Day campaign stop in Hanover by then-Senator Barack Obama… which I slept through.)

But oh, the beauty of the information age! With naught but a password whispered to an eager inbox, lo, the blog is resurrected! My friend and classmate Nathan Bruschi ‘10 appears to be behind the effort, calling himself LGB’s “editor” and authoring the first several posts after its two-year dry spell. He is supported by a coterie of other contributors, including Marcus Gadson ‘10, another friend, who writes on politics and religion. Mr. Bruschi and his gang gained full control two months ago, in July. I apologize; I was remarkably slow on the uptake.

As for LGB’s tone and content, the blog’s current iteration appears to bear little resemblance to the mouthpiece for hotheaded screeds that was its former self. Mr. Bruschi is decidedly centrist, and though some among his coterie do lean to the left, their writing is, for the most part, measured and temperate.

So welcome back, Little Green Blog! May you learn to scoop The Dartmouth by only slightly less time than Dartblog does.