I'd like to apologize to kos, to kossacks and to the readers here for letting you all down with that diary yesterday.
If I was going to be critical, I should have done it:
a) more constructively
b) more respectfully, of kos, and of you all.
I've read your comments and tried to make considered responses to as many as I could. But at this point, taking the weight of the criticism, the respect I have for the voices expressing it and the general view of how my piece was taken...as an unfair screed full of insinuations that many folks took as implying dirty secrets...
implications of dirty secrets that, in fact, I have zero knowledge of...
it's pretty clear I fucked up.
I'm human. I was angry and fed up, and still am. I bashed when I should have chilled and thought it out more.
If I can't live up to my principles in how I fight for those principles...then I should take a step back and reflect on that.
I've got no excuses for that piece. So I won't offer any other than to say...I have a different vision and style, and, at times, politics, than the guy who built this site. I may have valid reasons to be critical of Markos based on the public record, but I was a fool to think that the way I expressed them would accomplish anything positive, or that the effect of my insinuations about the "private record" were anything but foul.
I'm sorry for that. I regret it. And I apologize to you all, and to Markos specifically, for that diary.