A bit of bloggy nostalgia

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In 2001 and 2002, I was reading and commenting on Dana Garret's blog and Mike Mathews. There was also someone ...Delacrat? who had a great wit, but didn't stick with it. I was also trolling some Republicans pretty hard. Hube mostly. Like everyone I was shocked and outraged about how terrible George W. Bush was. About how he wanted to invade Iraq on a transparently flimsy pretext and with no plan for the occupation. (Little did I know that the GOP had not yet begun to scrape the bottom of the barrel.) Anyway, my arms were to short to box with GWB, so I decide to keep an eye on Mike Castle who I discovered to be a straight down the line "Yes Man" for Bush in spite of his PR campaign to the contrary. I tricked Liberalgeek into coming aboard, then Pandora and Cassandra, Nemski, Donviti. El Somnambulo was a goldmine of a commenter for a long while before he came on board. Delaware Dem started "Daily Delaware" but decided to come over after a while. Those years were fun. Then Hillary Clinton came along and ruined America with her shit ass campaign. I think that's how it went down. This short piece in technically Delaware reminded me of all of that. Read Steve Newton's post on outing. That's one for the time capsule.

Open Thread August 31st

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Trump said Wednesday that "talking is not the answer" when it comes to reining in North Korea -- his top Cabinet members instantly contradicted him. The guy is nuts. Off his rocker. People around him who are denying it are now involved in a criminal cover up. So Much talk about Denn this week. How are these elected's down ticket Dems doing: Mat Meyer, BHL, LBR, Trinidad Navarro. Me, (Jason330) I'm always buying stock in Bethany Hall Long. Not because she is crushing it, but because people like her. That is currency in politics and it is something that the Hillary supporters STILL don't seem to understand.

Houston is drowning—In its freedom from regulations

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I visited Houston once, and I remember being struck by how the riot of signage and absence of land use conventions like setbacks showed a clear contempt for "regulations".   I had no idea that the contempt extended to on outright rejection of modern storm water management practices.  I suppose if you asked the Houston Chamber of Commerce why it was so important allow impervious cover everywhere, they'd have some good reasons like..."Jobs" or "Freedom". Read it here: And notice how rich people always manage to restrict "freedom" enough so that their areas aren't free market shitholes.