“Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us….”

That’s right you groovy little fuckers, Dangerous Minds launched two years ago today, on Bastille Day of 2009 (considering our political views, we thought that was appropriate).

Since that day, the traffic has grown so rapidly that we’ve over-taxed every server we’ve been on, before moving over to our new home on Monday (That’s why there were, and may continue to be, some outages as we work out the kinks. Big shout out to awesome Alan Stuart and Brian Morales from One Long House, who designed and developed the blog. They’ve been with us since the beginning. Thanks guys!).

So what we have decided to do is to celebrate this milestone is repost some of our favorite pieces from the past few years—giving ourselves a semi-day off in the process(!)—and some stuff from the earliest days of the blog that some of you might have missed.

PS We’d also like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who repost our stuff on FB, Twitter, Reddit, and now Google + (we’re adding those buttons soon, next on the bottomless “to do” list). 

We couldn’t do it without you. Truly.