I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SAY “I’M IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH DAVID CORN” SO MANY TIMES in just a couple of days. But that’s been my experience on the Pajamas/OSM editorial board so far. As David writes:

Before the launch, left-of-center bloggers and some visitors to this site were fretting it would be the HQ for neocon shock-troops on the Web. Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott and I had a back-and-forth on the subject, with Wolcott comparing the OSM gang to Dr. Josef Mengele. But OSM’s startup problems have not been ideological; they’ve been editorial. The content and presentation have not been sufficiently compelling.

But I have discovered the fun–so to speak–of being on an editorial board. I get to bitch and moan and point out what I see as serious shortfalls and then say to the put-upon folks doing the actual work, “Gotta go; it’s up to you to fix this.” They’ve listened to me and to other board members, and we shall see what they do with all that advice.

And in the discussions of what needed fixing, and how, we’ve agreed on pretty much everything. Stay tuned to see how it works out.