I've just joined My Left Wing as a front pager.

Frankly, I don't post at DK as much as I used to.  There have been too many fights, oustings and too many blind spots to coverage of certain issues to the detriment of others.  I try to shy.  I include New Orleans in that.  I'm glad that some people with more expertise in hand have taken care of certain areas, but no one reads them as much any more with as much interest.  I'm sure if the Crescent City sank beneath the waves tomorrow, that interest would return, but only because it would be too late.

I remember seeing that one entry of mine had been promoted for diary rescue, but whoever read it for promotion got the whole issue wrong.

If BushCo can be guilty of crimes against humanity, the Dems, especially Blue Dog Dems, are almost aiding and abetting the crimes by inaction and neglect, except for some heroic congresspeople, minus Mary Landrieu and Nagin, who in imho would gladly revert back to the Republican Party whether or not they screwed him.

It's not that I have completely given up on Kos as a viable community.  I have given up on Kos as a person, which is why there are so many new political bloggers out there, including this one.  It was a starting point for me to not to feel so alone in 2004; I'll always feel grateful for that.  But DK is not the end-all, be-all for me any more.  There are too many issues that I feel Kos is incapable of grasping because of his own vested interests, blind spots, and prejudices.  It's not just criticism but fact.  It's also not a pretty picture I want to spend time on, either.

If I post there, it is because I hope a lot of Leftblogostan sees what I have written.  That's the kind of access it still commands.  Too bad the MSM doesn't know yet that DK's zenith was three years ago.  The grassroots impetus is going to places like Firedoglake, Steve Gilliard (before his recent illness), My Left Wing and others.

An untypical Negro

Bill in Portland Maine is a national treasure as I see it.

DarkSyde is smart, Devilstower is smart, McJoan isn't bad as I see it, and Meteor blades is good too.  And who can say anything bad about Al Rodgers?

As for Kos, he's been with the baby, and out of sight for awhile now, and his focus has been netroots/gate crashing for sometime now.

The problem is the self-appointed "referees" like, and disruptive "troll hunters" who act like pompous jackasses and are probably cons screwing around with "the libs" anyway.  Ideological purity is a sign of a defective mind.

I stay out of meta pie fights, and would only hurl key lime pies anyway, except for Coulter, and for her a suitable "pie" is likely found at a site like "scatbabes."

The troops are dying for the lies of Bush and his mob.  That is more important to me than the blazing egos among the "faithful" at DK or anywhere else.

Honestly, I think the revenue hit they would have suffered thru taking the ads down was the real reason behind the closed minds but that's only my feeling.  We were asking something that would effect their wallets.

How unfair :)

Hermaphrodite with attitude!