Someone else probably already mentioned this somewhere. But it dawned on me last night that this will be the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing since the birth of the blogosphere. I realized it when I tried to remember how NRO covered the last one and it hit me that we didn’t exist. For some this probably demonstrates how young this medium is. For others it might demonstrate how long it’s been since we had a Supreme Court vacancy. I’m really not sure this offers the blogosphere some grand or special opportunity, but we can be sure that confirmation hearings will never be without blog/web coverage ever again, which kind of makes you realize how we’re all on one side of a fairly huge historical divide with the past. Anyway: something to noodle. And if no one else has pointed it out, you heard it here first.