From a reader who’s needlessly generous with his time:

I followed the Yglesias’ link to the Corner search that supposedly proves that you do really care about him. I think it proves your point that you’ve grown less interested by him over time. Lets break down the numbers:
-He is mentioned in 116 posts since the first mention on Oct. 21, 2003 (about 0.627% of your ~18,481 posts in the same period).
-Those 116 posts took place on 94 days (or about 3.94% of the ~2389 days since the first post).
-Of the 80 months covered by the period, he went completely unmentioned in 31 of them. 19 of those months are in the second half of the period. Only 31 of the 116 posts (on 28 separate days) took place in the latter 40 months.
-His “biggest” month, accounting for over 10% of the total, was 13 posts on 8 days in May of 2006.
-You once went over 10 months without mentioning him (May 15, 2008 to March 27, 2009). The May 15, 2008 post was the “Bookscan can be cruel” post, which linked to Kevin Williamson comparing the sales of “Liberal Fascism”(91,246) with those of Yglesias’ “Heads in the Sand” (705).
-You’ve mentioned him 12 times in the past two years.
-By way of comparison, in the same period you mentioned volcanoes 94 times, Star Trek 151 times (and that’s just posts that actually contain the word “Trek”), squirrels 34 times, and Joss Whedon 25 times. Your Odd Link Gal Debby has been in 82 posts since her first in January of 2007 (Yglesias has been in 37 posts in the same period).
So (and Derb can check my math here), Yglesias demands about 3.5 squirrels worth of your attention.

I appreciate the effort here. But I’ve got to come clean. It’s all a lie. I am obsessed with Matt Yglesias. I tried to cover it up, but Matt’s just too smart, as he’d be the first to admit. He’s got my number. I have a whole shrine to him set up in my bedroom. I take screen captures of him in his Bert and Ernie t-shirts on Bloggingheads and tape them to my wall. Forget Joss Whedon, Matt Yglesias is my master now.