Shhhhhhhhh. Be very, very quiet. See if you can hear the whisper of a new voice here at RNS.

For several months I have been trying to get Puggs to come out of the comments closet, and start posting some of his excellent content on the main page. Puggs was a little intimidated by the computer side of things (God knows I haven't found anything else that seems to intimidate him), and reluctant to jump right into the blogosphere.

However, after he responded to a request I made for surplus Claymores by commenting that he knew how to make a nasty little anti-personnel mine out of a shotgun shell, I knew he had to move into the limelight. Hell, I get tons of e-mail from people who already think Puggs is an author (or even THE author, since he actually responds to more comments than I do) So, unbeknownst to Puggs, I set him up an RNS authoring account, e-mailed him all of the specifics, and wait in breathless anticipation to see when/if he will take the bait.

If I can have both Puggs and AK at my back, I'm thinking we can take on just about all challenges. I would use a lot of military references here, like "covering my flanks" and "suppressing fire", but you guys know I was never in the military and that I would just be saying stuff I had heard from the movies.

So let me just say this: AK is somewhere over there to the right. Puggs is probably somewhere over there to the left, but he may have already worked his way around behind you. Welcome to RNS.