Culture "War?"  Fought by "rabid lambs?"  The horror!  (I’ll bet darkblack is already on the case.) Okay, I admit, "war" metaphors are waaaay overdone, and actually, total bullshit.  Here’s one from the recent archives, for example.  And here’s a great new piece that could function as a companion to it.  Check it out. Matt Stoller [...]

       The old lessons are still the best ones.  Christy kicked off an invitation to lurkers to introduce themselves this morning.  It turned into a party, sharing many recipes perfect for large family gatherings.  It also prompted this comment from Organic George: I thought I would be the only lurker at [Yearly]Kos. Much to my [...]

Bless Digby for hitting the nail square on the head on Monday: …As far as I can tell, other than a few observations from reporters about how geeky or how old the participants were, nobody so far has seemed much interested in why people from all over the country, people who are not bloggers and [...]

I have been telling people that my YK experience was remarkably flat.  And by that I mean that there was no division between "in" and "out" — if anyone was huddled in back rooms making deals and schmoozing for power I didn’t see it, and I certainly wasn’t a part of it.  I spoke with [...]

(Some of you may recall that the Time Magazine columnist formerly known as Wonkette lost her notebook at Yearly Kos.  This document has in fact fallen into my hands.  I can’t tell you exactly who the double super secret source [*cough* Jane Hamsher! *cough*] is who FedEx-ed this to me from Vegas on Sunday, but [...]

Since I’m filling in this afternoon as the FDL crew recuperates or heads off to yet another blogfest, I thought I’d take the opportunity to dish about Jane and Pach and Christy behind their backs a little. And you too. I think we can all agree that FDL made quite a splash at YKOS, can’t [...]

  At one point during our FDL caucus on the first day of the convention, Ana Marie Cox was standing out in the hallway with Byron York and Pach hailed them inside.  York came in and sat down, but as Wankette teetered through the crowd on a pair of spindly legs shown to ill-effect in [...]

Dateline: 6/11/06… At the moment, I’m cruising at an altitude of about 27,000 feet (well, give or take…I wasn’t really listening to the pilot when he did the announcement. But it was something with a "7" in it…), and thinking back on the rush of activity that was YearlyKos. And I’m, frankly, a bit overwhelmed [...]

  Still getting our morning cups of coffees. I’m sure Crooks and Liars will have Markos’ performance up from Meet the Press soon, and CSPAN has a video up of our CIA leak panel that you can stream (so does Fora TV, Fora TV has only the Joe Wilson segment but if you can figure [...]

If it’s Sunday, it’s Talking Heads.  And look who is on Meet the Press this morning… NBC, Meet the Press:  Gen. Barry McCaffrey, (Ret.), U.S. Army & NBC Military Analyst, on the war & Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death. Then a roundtable with the Daily Kos’s Markos Moulitsas, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, the Cook Report’s Amy Walter [...]