Tag: Open Thread

Well I really hope buhdy’s computer is fixed because all this responsibility is dragging me down.

I suppose I really should write something light and frivolous to cheer everybody up, but the news keeps getting me down and about the most humorous thing I got right now is that WaMu has been downgraded to junk, AIG has been downgraded to not quite junk and might need quite a bit more than $75 Billion to avoid bankruptcy by Wednesday.

What makes this funny is that the Dow is a mere 300 points or so from where it was the day W took the oath of office that he has so tarnished.

Unfortunately our long national nightmare is not yet over, nor will it be if we do not succeed in throwing this criminal cabal out of office and even then there are little over 2 long months to destroy what’s left.

And not all the wreckage is so easily undone as the illusionary paper greed gains the wannabe wealthy pretend plutocrats got stuck with while the real deal escape on their golden parachutes.

So tomorrow CNBC will be good for giggles, kind of like toasting marshmallows while listening to the musical stylings of Nero.

Blog Browsing …

JDWolverton over at Daily Kos put up one of the best diaries I’ve read on what living is like after a hurricane in Post Ike – Grilled Pizza & Other Musings, a sort of surreal yet entertaining Hints from Heloise for the aftermath of a storm.

At Zuky, Kai has a video slide show with his impressions of the Dem convention in Denver, Blogmig@s at DNC 2008.

Nezua gives us a heartbreaking post at The Unapologetic Mexican, Hispanic Heritage Month/Latino Heritage Month – What it Means to Me.

My original plan was to re-post these at their original times, but I can’t quite make that artistic vision happen.

Here instead are links to them-

• Pony Party; Labor Pains and Pharmaceuticals
  
  by: 73rd virgin
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 06:00:00 PDT

• Pony Party… it’s LAUNCH DAY wranglers
  
  by: pfiore8
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 09:00:00 PDT

• Pony Party: Angela Davis Edition
  
  by: Turing Test
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 15:00:00 PDT

• PONY PARTY… your favorite things (like ponies)
  
  by: pfiore8
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 15:00:00 PDT

What a long strange trip it’s been.

Well, anniversaries are supposed to be times of introspection and remembrance.  If I concentrate a little on my own feelings and less on those of others it’s because I value everyone’s contribution so much that I don’t trust myself not to forget one or two.

I’ve spoken before about this being a team blog, indeed tomorrow at 8 am I’ll repost my opening day essays and the first Pony Party to start the celebration.  We publish a good amount of content, most of which is excellent.

I like to feature the essays of others on the Front Page, but it’s a mixed blessing.  You only last about a day unless you’re picked up on the Rec List which is a dKos and a half (12 to the uninitiate).  It ages in 3 days which is just about long enough to keep it filled through Thanksgiving and eksmas.

I’m not likely to feature personal stories because I’m not sure how much you really want to share although I can think of occasional exceptions.

I have my Recent Essays set to 50 and essays age in about 3 days there too.  In terms of volume of original content I’d compare our collective output to some pretty active sites though I have no statistics at all to support that.

I look at DocuDharma pretty much as a interactive Daily Newspaper, Literary Magazine, and Gossip Column, so those are the kind of stories I tend to promote, but there are other editorial voices and I’m very responsive to recommendations.

I expect the future will pretty much resemble the past.  I think that after the election it’s going to be quite a problem to enact a progressive agenda. but I am sure what the results will be if we don’t at least try.

My hopes for DocuDharma are rather modest, that it remain a place where people are not afraid to express themselves creatively or politically and that through discussion we can generate some activity and awareness that percolates up.

I have no sense of humor.

I’m sadly forced to this conclusion after reading a day’s worth of commentaries about lipstick.

And pigs.

Now it is a fact that I have kissed a pig because I lost a bet at my club but it was on the forehead and very chaste even though I am a heck of a kisser.

I didn’t check the sex of that pig.

But I did kiss it and one thing I can tell you is it didn’t have lipstick.

It was a clean and friendly animal, like a dog.  On the other hand I cook with pork.  Yum.

I’m not sure what moose burgers taste like.

My advice is to oink oink oink.

Here’s a little linkiness taken from our very own blogroll!

NOLA blogger Adrastos has a thing or two to say about Ike in I Don’t Like Ike, with videos and some interesting pics.

Nezua over at The Unapologetic Mexican channels Hunter Thomas in his take of the protests at the Republican Convention, which he covered as a citizen journalist, in The Front Line is Everywhere – RNC 08:

The GOP actually needs an army now, to make itself evident and dare celebrate anything in public. They have lied, killed, they laugh while we suffer with health problems or bemoan the loss of life and humanity. They bring their army to protect them from the voice of the People they supposedly serve.

Check out the pictures of the riot cops, the first one is stunning.

And Kyle over at Citizen Orange has the latest tragic news from Haiti in Hait is Still Forgotten As It Is Pounded by Yet Another Hurricane, Ike.  Kyle has been doing a great service getting the word out on this tragedy and if you have a moment please digg, reddit or stumble this post.  He also has updates on what you can to do help.

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