Thanks to everyone who made yesterday's Buck-a-Hit Day such a success. We reached our goal of 1,250 hits just before 3 p.m., and we metered more than 1,800 hits for the day.

We're particuarly grateful to all the folks who put links on their blogs yesterday sending people here. In the order in which we noticed them, they include:

Lots of new blogs for us to follow here (along with a couple of old favorites). We urge you to try them out, too. If we left someone off the list, please let us know and we'll get them mentioned here as well.

Last but not least, a special thanks to radio talk show host Lars Larson, who, bless his misguided little Republican heart, sent several large bursts of readers this way. We disagree with him most of the time, but he's got a following, and they did a nice thing here yesterday. Sincere thanks to him and to them.

And now, the most important part: We're off to write those checks.