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Monday Music Break: R.D. King, "Rain and Ash"

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A Three Hour Tour1/21/2019 8:47:39 pm PST

Hello, everybody. After lurking daily for almost a decade, I thought I’d finally register and participate in the discussions here. I had been reading off and on since the early Pajama’s Media days. I considered myself a “liberal hawk” back then, but after years and years of consuming right wing blogs during the Iraq War - Insty, Roger Simon, Captain’s Quarters, etc. - I allowed myself to become increasingly brainwashed by the Right.

After the 2008 election, I felt a great liberation and took a couple months off from reading all political blogs to detoxify and re-center myself. A month after Obama’s inauguration, I ripped my toes back into the water, and saw that even those who during the Bush years had presented themselves as “sane conservatives” had gone off the deep end.

Over the years, I watched the comments section change as various more conservative lizards flounced or otherwise quietly wandered away as new blood - more moderate and more liberal - joined.

During the Trump Nightmare, the commenters here have helped keep me sane, and I want to thank all of ya’ll for that.