Republican blogger Stefan Sharkansky has accomplished something no other Seattle-based blogger ever has: He established a popular, and highly visible, right-wing blog in a city that has about as many Republicans as Alberto Gonzales has scruples. And he's managed to keep it going for years, establishing a large readership from both ends of the political spectrum—that's quite an accomplishment. He also reportedly once split a pitcher with liberal blogger David Goldstein, and paid, although Goldstein says he does not remember how much, if anything, Sharkansky tipped.