The New York Times launched their 500th blog today. This one's called "The Board" and it's written by the Editorial Board, those oft-imitated, oft-equaled authors of liberal conventional wisdom. "The Board" will be the first of the Times' dozen Opinion blogs without bylines, though you can always tell Associate Editor Robert Semple's posts by his use of adorable Japanese emoticons. America needed yet another place to read the thoughts of liberal old white people, and who else but the Times editorial board can provide the opinions of Paul Krugman without the passion, or the arguments of Bob Herbert without the hilarious, disarming wit? The commenters are thrilled! "This is the most exciting thing I've heard in weeks!"