TTAC Welcomes A Promising New Writer Named Fargo Or Something Like That

Consider this a sneak preview for my Internet friends: TTAC Homecoming welcomes its most distinguished alumnus back on Thursday morning. Our site's august founder, Robert Farago, will return to TTAC with a review of the Ray Donovan Special, also known as the 2013 Mercedes CLS550. It will be his first post on the site since he was treacherously deposed by Ed Niedermeyer on November 17, 2009. In January of this year, Bertel Schmitt re-ran an article of Robert's without his permission, probably to try to get a bit of that old Farago magic back. It was sorely needed: under Schmitt's reign of blunder, Mr. Farago's new site, The Truth About Guns, caught up to and passed TTAC in most impartial rankings.

There are few stories of failure as abject as that one: somebody hands you a hot website and then you run it into the ground while said guy starts a brand-new one and blows by you on the way up. With any luck, Managing Editor Derek Kreindler and I will at least keep pace with RF's new digs in the future.

I'm grateful to Robert for many things. He gave me an important hand up in the business. He freed me from the 800-word limit at TTAC and he allowed me to self-publish on the site. Now he's contributed this outstanding piece to us and I can't wait to publish it. I'll respond with an article for TTAG next week. Unless I can come up with a better idea, it's likely to be a nostalgia piece on the "Bren Ten" semi-automatic pistol and its portrayal in popular media, and I'll link to it here when it goes up. And while I'd like to tell you that RF will be a regular contributor to TTAC in the future, let's be honest with ourselves --- he has far too many irons in the fire for that to happen. The best revenge, they say, is living well.