The Dog Park is here to get our anger and frustration out with the intent to vent, so we’re not exploding all over each other in daily diary comments.
Of course, our pets can be a great source of comfort, so if you want to talk about them, go for it. I'll probably keep this up until the nomination season is over with.
susi contemplates the meaning of life
This is a social experiment to try and keep kossacks* and kosters** from peeing and pooing all over each other. Despite our differences, dKos we are all on the same team. Remember who our streams and projectiles are aimed at – conservatives without conscience, corporate robber barons, neo-con military industrialists, right-wing media, etc., etc., etc. No lengthy posts necessary, but if you want to expound, go for it.
*Warriors, always on guard, ready to fight. The real cossacks killed thousands of Jews in pogroms in the Ukraine (in league with the Tzar) in the early 20th century. My father, his 2 sisters, mother and father escaped these executions, but returns to the Ukraine in the late 20th century found few other surviving relatives. Needless to say, I don't like this term.
**I don't know if anyone else has ever used "kosters". Rather than an acknowledgment of past achievements, resting on ones' laurels, Kosters can take up arms as well, but choose their battles wisely.
"Kosmopolitans" and "dKossians" offered by user Runs With Scissors
"Kossakianistites" offered by Marc in KS:
It's a mix of "ist" (which is sort of "adherent"), and "ites" (which is a "dweller" or group member by location or ethnicity), and the old, standard "Kossack."