re: #31 wrenchwench

Thanks. I posted, I think, one post during the 2012 election, but maybe I took it down or something. It was during the debates.

I’ve been lurking here for a good few years now though :) Such an excellent site. This place is like a mirage come to life…you know, walking through the dry desert of the political blogosphere, you do see the occaissional town, but the number of nutters is usually between 1/4 and 1/2 that of the reasonable folk (too high a number for me). So they are ‘towns divided’.

Then if you go down to the elephant graveyard (right wing political blogs), it is purely nutcases, angry loners and a few Ron Paul supporters. If you follow them home, you’ll end up lost in a Koresh-ian ranch, Waco style, where the fire never goes out.

If you are lucky, you see a shimmering lake, cool waters, palm trees, lush vegetation. Cool heads and calm discussions abound. It is a mirage, surely? Many of the other parts of the desert looked that way, until I looked closer.

But no, it is not a mirage, it is something special, an outpost of rational, even, considered, thoughtful conversation. It is the best place in the blogosphere for reading politics, and pretty good for reading other stuff too.