TWO MILLION VISITORS!

About 3 p.m. today, The Other McCain recorded its 2 millionth visitor. It took slightly more than 11 months to hit the 1-million mark on Feb. 13, and barely five months to knock down the next million.

We must therefore begin by thanking Carrie Prejean nude. Any other famous people who want to take on hot political issues that offend the Left, please do us a favor and e-mail Smitty as soon as you find out TMZ has posted those topless photos taken when you were 20. We need the traffic. (C'mon, don't be so coy, Hillary . . .)

In addition to thanking Googlers of topless celebrity photos and our regular readers -- to the extent that these are not coterminous categories -- Smitty and I are grateful to the numerous bloggers who have linked us. Here are the folks who've thrown us the most traffic, according to E-Referrer.com:

• Instapundit
• Michelle Malkin
• Hot Air
• Conservative Grapevine
• Memeorandum
• Ann Coulter
• Andrew Sullivan
• Protein Wisdom
• Five Feet of Fury
• Ace of Spades HQ
• The American Spectator
• Right Wing News
• RealClearPolitics (Best of the Blogs)
• TigerHawk
• Conservatives for Palin
• Taki's Magazine
• American Power
• Riehl World View
• Jule Crittenden
• Cynthia Yockey, Conservative Lesbian
• The Jawa Report
• The Sundries Shack
• Legal Insurrection
• Clever S. Logan
• Monique Stuart
• Red State
• Twitter
• Cold Fury
• Balloon Juice
• Gateway Pundit
• Iowahawk
• Outside the Beltway
• Patriot Room
• Glenn Greenwald
• VDare.com
• Jammie Wearing Fool
• Ann Althouse
• Mahablog
• IMAO
• Pundit & Pundette
• Paco Enterprises
• Little Miss Attila

Loyal readers, please congratulate yourselves in the comments. You bloggers . . . OK, story time.

It was the last night of CPAC, back in February. As I was circulating around trying to squeeze every last schmooze opportunity out of the event, I came out of the hotel bar and there in the lobby stood Professor Glenn Reynolds and the magnificent Dr. Helen. I'd never met either of them before.

Walked right up, reached out to shake the professor's hand, handed him a business card and, by way of introduction, said, "Hi, I'm Stacy McCain. You haven't been linking me enough lately."

Our slogan: All Your Links Are Belong To Us!

UPDATE: You like me! You really like me! Linked at Memeorandum, and by Jimmie at Sundries Shack, Doug at Daley Gator, Fisherville Mike and Professor Douglas at American Power, who is pounding "controversy" into a coma. (Megaphone voice)

PROFESSOR DOUGLAS, WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!
STEP AWAY FROM THAT PEEPHOLE AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!

(Voice from inside bullet-riddled hideout.)

YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, COPPER!

Sigh. Remind me to amend No. 5 in The Rules v2.0: "Unless images of the aforesaid hottie shall constitute evidence in a criminal investigation . . ."

UPDATE II: On the other hand, if the Professor is trying to make a point about the sheer insanity of celebrity culture and how it intersects with the voyeuristic impulses rampant in the TMZ/Perez Hilton Epoch, he might have the makings of a Los Angeles Times op-ed essay there.

Look, over the last month, a typical day for American Power -- that is, a day without any especially "hot" new post that spiked up the traffic -- was in the 1,400-1,800 hit range. He's currently knocking down about 500 hits an hour, which should easily put him at 5,000 hits by the end of the day, and that extra 3,000 is almost entirely due to people Googling for the notorious video of a cable-sports reporter almost nobody ever heard of before.

When you get a hot meme, you gotta ride it, like Professor Jacobsen rode DijonGate to SiteMeter glory. The demand calls supply into existence. There is something important in this thing, and if Donald Douglas can distill it into 700 thoughtful words, he might find real value here.

But I still wish more people would follow the upstanding example set by John Hawkins at Conservative Grapevine, and only link classy, tasteful Rule 5 stuff like Miranda Kerr in a Victoria's Secret photoshoot.

Do I have any inkling who Miranda Kerr is? No. But until about a month ago, I'd never heard of Gerald Walpin, Fred Wiedersdorf or Judith Gwynne, either.