I worked for many years in radio, and we have a special category of listeners we call "long time listeners/ first time callers." They are 99% of all radio listeners who genuinely enjoy what they hear most every day, but never get around to calling the station. With regard to your blog, it's probably safe to say that 99% of your readers never get around to clicking the "email Andrew" link, yet they read you frequently, possibly multiple times daily. They read, they think; they laugh and cry, and look through the views from your infinite windows. Count me among your long time readers/ first time e-mailers. Kudos to you and your staff on your 10th anniversary, and please know that for many of the 99%ers out here, we can't imagine a day without another helping from the Dish.

Another writes:

As an outsider looking in, I am very grateful for your blog’s existence. Yours is a sane voice in the midst of all-too-pervasive hysteria, and a sane conservative voice, which as someone to the left, I welcome with all my heart. As someone who loves Americans and loves (mostly) America, I yearn for them to return to civilized, respectful discourse, motivated not by ideology but by pragmatism. A lot of us outside the borders of the United States are hoping and praying that America shows greater unity in the face of some very grave challenges we all are confronting. May America listen to the better angles of its nature. Thank you Andrew, your blog is a bright spot.

Another:

As I do every morning, I woke up, made coffee and opened my window to the sounds and smells of Paris, then settled in to see what you and your team had to say during the night, while I slept. With an RSS feedreader overwhelmed by more than 500 feeds and subsequently abandoned, I've honed down my news and commentary sources to very few, and your blog is one of them. On your 10th anniversary, I'd like to tell you how and why you fit into my life.