Welcome New Users

Sep 12 2009

By ek hornbeck in Meta

Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 07:00:00 PDT

Fri Sep 12, 2008 at 07:00:00 PDT

Welcome New Users to DocuDharma. We expect there will be a lot of you today.

May 23 2009

I’d like to extend a genuine welcome to people who are joining the site out of a desire to find a spot that is a little port of orange. When I joined dK it was to find a place where I could express myself without the fear that I might expose myself as a (shudder) Democrat.

And have no doubt about it, I am a yellow dog Democrat who stopped voting Republican even for dog catcher many years ago.

Equally I am interested in Democratic electoral victory since I understand that only with overwhelming majorities will our supposed Representatives overcome their craven, cowardly instincts and occasionally be persuaded to do the right thing. Indeed I think the emergence of a Democratic Democratic Party can only occur after the Republican Party, the party of thieves, murderers, despots, and liars, is as dead as the Whigs so our Representatives can no longer threaten us like gangsters to choose the lesser of two evils.

Nice little country you’ve got here, shame if anything happened to it. Vote for me.

I understand the mission of dK and agree with it, but I don’t agree with them on all things. To choose a trivial but early example, I think the 0ne Diary A Day policy is stultifying and unnecessary and I have expressed that sentiment on numerous occasions.

When buhdy provided me the opportunity to be a Contributing Editor and later Admin here I was grateful for the opportunity to help shape a system that addressed some of the flaws I perceived.

Which is not to say that there aren’t rules and procedures.

Sep 12 2008