"orangebama" heh. and ouch!

Many Edwardians are still struggling and that’s OK. Give them a little breathing room.

that hurts. we're sensitive, dammit. we need time to cry.

i haven't really followed this whole "i accept the Way" before posting stuff at GOS. i just haven't felt the desire to put anything up there in a long time, no real reason, except perhaps i've found so many interesting new places to go.

Just because you may be the author on his site, guess what, you can never edit, redact, make changes, cancel your account, or delete comments.

Welcome to Kos's world. He's the gatekeeper and even if you do everything in your power to get banned, and be someone the community does no want, they still want to keep your work. Sure you may never be able to post again, but HIS google power won't be tarnished by people leaving. Oh, by the way, he will remove all the links and SEO goodness to people who he decides to hold the ladder for. No one else.

I often wonder if the CIA conspiracy rumors had an small kernel of truth to them.

Kos and his fellow friends in other blogs are following meticulously the evolution that the Soviet Union went through. First was the idea and getting rid of the czar. Then the Bolsheviks hated their, more moderate, partners, the Mansheviks. Then came camarade Stalin and made everyone not in line confess and fall in line and in most cases go to the gulag (something like Guantanamo). Stalin also executed about 20 million people.

Kos and fellow blog follow clearly in the footsteps of greater and better people, Stalin being one.

--and Kos is leading the charge.

It reminds me of how even reasonable posts with questions about 9/11 were fought against, and then disappeared.

I don't get it. Why even bother having a DKos diary in the first place? Is Blogger too friggin' hard for these folks?

[Which did, in fact, used to be true. We'll see how that goes.]

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

but those 688 paragraphs of 2.5-point type on the back of the flyer explain that those "more and better Democrats" need to be the ones Kos personally believes to be better.
I got hooked on Kos during the California Wildfire Liveblogging. For about a week, I was actually getting to *do* something with all that emergency-response training I'd spent two and a half years gathering on the state's nickel (training that is completely unrelated to my current job).

I think it's a good thing if disaffected exiles create alternate sites (else whence arose, first, First Draft and then Corrente?) where arguments and debate can flourish, and I think eventually a sort of citizen-journalism will arise from it. Ideologues end up hoist on their own petards eventually (e.g. Mussolini).

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

To this entire Obama phenomenon is that it has gotten me out of my lazy habit of reading the big blogs and forced me to spend the energy to look elsewhere for interesting reading. Many of my regular sites weren't always great fits for me anyway, I went there more out of habit than natural affinity, and now I find I read much more interesting and diverse voices. You might think that in fleeing the Obama mania, I'd still be getting little diversity of opinion, but that presumes that what I'm looking for is anti-Obama screeds or pro-Hillary screeds. But I'm not interested in screeds of any kind, the spelling and grammar alone are frightening. Instead, what I've found is interesting and rational, albeit often passionate, discussion. Which, of course, I should've known would be in greater supply on the margins - that's how it has always been. And despite all the netroots talk of revolution, that's how it will always be.

There is nothing new under the sun.