Dave Weigel Quits

And the Post accepts. A sad day for journalism. Ben Smith claims Dave is a liberal. Not from where I sit. He's a sane libertarian, which means he understood just how completely nuts the conservative movement and Republican party now are. But Ben is right about this:

There's no sign the Post really thought this through. Even as old-timers rankled at the new hires,  the paper -- scrambling for relevance on the Internet -- seems not to have considered what the buzzy personnel moves would mean...