I originally posted this on dailykos about five years ago. Watching the GOP struggle to define itself and to try like hell to position our Democratic brand again makes me think of this piece.
So... here:
Dammit, you're smarter than her, sitting there in your den with your diploma on the wall behind you, your mouse crowding the stacks of unpaid bills on your desk, your fat thighs making the office chair squeak when you shift your weight. Those unfortunate but real boobs and asymmetrical features... your lost youth... your bratty kids and inattentive spouse...
I was delighted when Dan Pacheco approached me about Printcasting, the Knight News Challenge grant-winning project he was heading up with additional backing by the Bakersfield Californian. It was late summer, and I’d just left my position at a Boulder-based Drupal shop where, coincidentally, the Knight News Challenge Garage was one of the last designs I created before departing.
I blogged as a front-page contributor at dailykos (under the name "theoria") from six months or so after the start of the war in Iraq to the end of what was sadly only Bush's first term. I'm going to republish my blog posts here over the course of the next couple of months.
