Well, I think I’ll abandon my crackpot efforts to score a spot on the annual John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius award” list. Because the 2008 edition was announced today, and of course, I didn’t get the coveted phone call.

It’s not so much that I wanted to get my grubby little hands on that $500,000 no-strings-attached grant money. No, really. It’s that I feel the world is just a little bit poorer for not having a MacArthur Foundation Blogging Fellow in its midst.