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Do you have your BT bumper sticker yet?

I was banned over there, yet again, but I spend so little time there, I don't give a damn anymore.

It is such a big blog now, and so cliquey, and so infiltrated by various types of professional political propagandists, that it long ago stopped being an enjoyable blog.  Even if I read it I never post.  Who would see it in a blog where the recommends get over 600 posts?

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the next is georgia10-topnotch in my book, too--but she's mostly disappeared from dk.

which leaves you with susanG, whose voice seems to grow quieter at dk. Top condiments pales next to Diary rescue, which seems a bit perverted to me; I think the latter series has tried to be thoughtful, the former, mostly mutual mojobation.

that's the way I see it, and though I suspect you ain't crazy about me, at least you have a tolerant enough blog not to have all this banning and troll-hunting phenomena. In that respect, you should not consider yourself a rung below dk, but maybe a reflection on how liberal folks can behave.

What's the point here? That you aren't on the take?

In terms of meta... get used to it, it's part of human existence and experience and a key to community building.

She was easily one of the best minds at Dkos when i got there, iirc my ID was in the 700's so i was there very early on and just got better with time. Even Armando (who arrived later) and in the late stages of my time there declared in an online argument that "she is a genius but she is the anti-me". Well folks, that should tell you everything you need to know.

B:
Her blog is not even remotely close to being a blog that 'focuses heavily on what goes on at Daily Kos'. She couldn't be as she isn't a constant reader of Dkos anymore but if she hears something she sometimes comments. That shows that you do not read her often or you are listening to inaccurate gossip about her. Either way you are dead wrong. My gut tells me that when you hear about her it's because someone whispers to you when she does make a comment so that's why you make that mistaken assumption.

Marisa was easy to spot as one of the savviest political minds on that blog. She has an amazing facility for politics and many many men are threatened by that. Secondly she does not suffer fools gladly and I respect that enormously even when i'm one of the fools she doesn't suffer well. I have learned a great deal from many bloggers but none more than her. That said we do disagree, I'm no acolyte but I respect her opinion enormously regardless. She has much in common with Molly Ivins in her ability to hit the bullseye with very few words. I wish they were both still here but I'm glad her voice is still out there, calling it as she sees it. She's a friggin' treasure in a sea of political bullshit.

I started to uprate, but frankly I don't want to get sucked in & have it said I'm doing the same thing.

I do hope that those handing it 0s and 1s will reconsider.

Disclaimer: I have no real knowledge or views on the topic at hand

"this just can't get more disturbing!" - Willow

That being said, for me this brings up a lot of questions about one's expectations of privacy in the online world. My user name is my last name, I imagine it would take about 30 seconds of google searching to "out me." For the more prominent folks who post a lot and appear at political events where pictures are taken and interviews are done, your privacy is gone.

Given the controversy this has created, I wouldn't be surprised to see freepers doing some digging and "outing" other prominant personalities on DKos and other sites.

On a personal level, I found Delaware Dem to be routinely obnoxious and abrasive to people and I imagine there is a long line of people with grudges towards him. If you are that concerned about protecting your identity, painting a giant bullseye on yourself isn't smart.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own. ----- George Carlin

im building a dungeon in my new apartment...its all painted pink and green and there are monkeys everywhere.

to me this seems like the perfect environment where women can do scary things to men.

i can think of a few men on these blogs who could use a good spanking.

and a few women too, but i dont do women...they are too complicated.

Edible panties taste like crap.

JUST LIKE DKOS!!!

I FEEL SO AT HOME!!!

Drop it.

We're about to blow up Iran.

Have y'all nothing else to think about?

Really.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

I agree with Madman that Kos has allowed his site to degenerate intellectually by letting these group think, originality stiffling practices run amuck!

Peace,

Andrew

The 10,000 Things

That's the main cause any sort of division. One thing that Markos has been pretty consistent about when he started dKos is that it was to build a movement. Not for anyone's single issue or for any one person, for that matter - but as an institution to improve the Democratic Party.

I think it's hard to argue that he's been a failure in that respect.

Anyways, enough with this. My last point is that folks had better get used to the idea that not all bloggers are equal in the blogosphere. However, this is largely a function of the self-revealing meritocracy within it, which I don't think is a bad thing at all.                                                            

She's a gadfly and a pest with a huge chip on her shoulder.  Nothing more.