Slate's Test-Your-Blog-Name Quiz

appears here. Let's see how Seriatim measures up:

1) Irony is a cruel mistress.
One way to enhance your online charisma is through self-deprecation.

Rule #1 only applies if you're not a mf Supreme Court Justice. Suck it. Next.

2) Mind the allusions.
For some reason (don't ask me why) conservatives christen their sites with geek pop-culture references more often than liberals do.

Nope. Seriatim is an old legal word: "Seriatim, Latin for "in series," is a legal term typically used to indicate that a court is addressing multiple issues in a certain order, such as the order that the issues were originally presented to the court. A seriatim opinion describes an opinion delivered by a court with multiple judges, in which each judge reads his or her own opinion rather than a single judge writing an opinion on behalf of the entire court."

Next.

3) Inside jokes doom.
Nicknames and private giggles are fine for yearbook inscriptions and e-mail passwords, but as blog titles they're a nuisance.

Check and check. Next.

4) Choose antagonists wisely.
If your raison d'blog is to monitor and annoy another Web site—one you hate; one that formerly employed you—be sure you've got the right obsessive tendencies to keep up with your quarry and do only that.

Here's where Seriatim really shines. I call Frank Lasee a douchebag a lot, and that's wise.

5) Beware the pun.

As much as I disagree, this isn't the time nor the place.

6) MoveOn.Snore
Don't shy from tabloid pungency just because you want to appear thoughtful and sophisticated.

Preach it brother.

7) Embrace the solipsism.
Unlike Alterman and Ireland, most journos use their own bylines to identify their blogs. As Michael Kinsley previously wrote in Slate, even a "modest, soft-spoken, and self-effacing" journalist can appear an "egotistical monster" when www precedes his name.

We don't have to worry about whether the egotistical monsterdom is just an illusion masking modesty or softness of speech around here.