Say what you will about the Patriot; we are a durable lot. Campus media come and go, but we've remained relatively steadfast here in the GW media world.

At the beginning of the year, we had the much-ballyhooed arrival of two potential rivals; The College Democrats Blog, The Blue Line, and something called The Colonial Review, which was supposed to supplant the Patriot as the conservative voice on campus.

Well, here we are at almost the end of the first semester. The Blue Line lost its best writer (and communications director) in the great Twombly scandal of the CD's, and hasn't been updated in about two weeks. Even when it was updated, I never got the impression that anyone was reading.

The Colonial Review, as far as I can tell, never got off the ground. To be honest, I don't even know if that link up there is the same Colonial Review that they were talking about earlier. The CR website has a "blog", but it's nothing but a press releases and event info page.

Those old dummy's at GWBlogspot are long gone (though the professor whose class writes the blog promises a return in the spring), and the best blog GW ever had, The Colonialist, lost its writers to graduation.

Like Woody Allen said, 80% of success is just showing up. We're here, GW, and we'll be here for a while yet. Thanks for reading.