CAPT H said, quoting McJoan:
"...the right blogosphere is dominated by professional political types ..."
...and then he added:
... and no mention of the Castle!
I'm terribly saddened at that. Broken-hearted. After all, Joan and I had a "moment" down in the archives when we discovered we actually had something in common regarding the Long War - that a nuke-armed Iran is probably bad. This occurred as we bloggers were getting a tour of the archives. They had turned us loose to wander the shelves full of the interesting mundania of Senator Dole's career when I noticed that the three rightys were moving down one aisle together, and the two lefties (with a very nice student lefty-blogger-groupie) were moving down a different aisle. Throughout the evening watching the comfort groups form was amusing.
Joan being my first live Kossack, I picked up something else... when I hear those of us on the right refer to the Kossacks in speech, we do so in the form of Russian Cossacks. When Joan uses the term, she pronounces it Ko-sack. And Daily Kos is pronounced with the "ko" sound, not the "ka" sound I've always used. And, since it's Markos Zuniga, it makes sense - it was just odd to my ears, living in the great benighted hole that is Kansas. (Hey, *I* like it here - I want all you others to think it sucks and stay away...) Go live in Missouri or something.
Anyway - if you haven't yet, go read Joan's post, she expands on the one thing that was actually the major difference between the two camps - because they all pretty much agreed that politicians need to figure out this internet thingy and adapt to it - because we "netizens" aren't going to adapt to them very well, despite Senators McCain and Feingold's attempts to indirectly force us to - because I don't care that they cloaked it in campaign finance rhetoric, the purpose of that bill was to stifle dissent and criticism. Not to make it somewhat accountable in terms of truth in advertising, but to just shut it off. Which is why it was bi-partisan. It could just as correctly been titled the "McCain-Feingold Incumbency Protection Act" as campaign finance reform. And in that regard, the left and right of the 'sphere have some common ground.