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Thu, 06/18/2009 - 11:29am — vastleft

I've resumed posting at my old site, accessed via either "http://vastleft.blogspot.com" or "http://www.vastleft.com."

I hope to see you over there. Please add me to your RSS feeds, blogrolls, etc., if you're into such things.

I have one more post planned for Correntewire in the near future. Stay tuned....

P.S., Suggestions for a new tagline are welcome. "Something to read until Bush gets us all killed" probably needs a little updating... to reflect our new, hopeful, transcendently transcendent age.

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Hope is not a strategy

By scoutt on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 2:02pm

but it makes my leg tingle.

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Cribbing from your ideas

By dr sardonicus on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 9:11pm

"Something to read until we all get ponies!"

I appreciate your insights, VL (especially on the Bible -hint!), and I'll see you at your other sites.

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It was myiq's idea (if you're drawing that from the thread...

By vastleft on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 10:08pm

... at my site).

But I think your phrasing is an upgrade, so it's my new frontrunner.

Thanks for your warm words and good suggestion!

VL, will you be cross-posting here?

By jawbone on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 10:03pm

n/t

I don't think so

By vastleft on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 10:10pm

But I've learned never to say never.

My swan-song post, though, I will post at both places.

There are plenty of great posters here

By vastleft on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 10:33pm

And any blog with Lambert on it is a must-read.

Geese all over, not here

By gob on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 10:03am

Sorry, didn't mean to insult Corrente. Bad choice of words induced by literary quotation compulsion.

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