So you’ve probably heard, I’ve relocated to DC out of the Midwest, and I’ve come into a financial situation that will allow me to do nothing but blogging for a time (love you grrrl!). Yesterday, I went to the Greenwald and Blumenthal event at CAP, and a reader questioned my liveblogged report. Well and good, let’s get some things straight before I get too caught up in the muck here in our nation’s cesspool.

Eventually, someone is going to out me, or I’ll out myself, and you’ll be able to find out my real name and probably a bunch of other stuff that I may or may not want you to know. But I’m not going to help in that process just yet. Corrente is and always will be my first and best blogging home, and I’m very proud and honored to write here with such excellent people. But it’s also the case that not too many people in DC read it, yet, and so for a time, I’m going to use my anonymity as a shield, and do a little work in an undercover fashion.

There is absolutely no reason why anyone should believe a word I write here. Or, for that matter, anything you read in the NYTimes, or hear on Katie Couric’s “news” program. If you don’t see something with your own eyes or hear it with your own ears, it’s all just second hand and hearsay to you. I trust my own judgment just as I’m sure you trust yours; you can choose to believe what I write here or not, I really don’t care.  Read more