OK - so I know it was easy to sign up here. Easy to pay for a subscription, although I have this guilty feeling - should I have just given it to OFA instead? They are, however, oh, so persistent in their pleas, but they never want to know what I think. But what if Daily Kos wanted to know what I think? What would I say? What if Daily Kos were to interview every prospective diarist here?
So I got to thinking - I do that a lot - what kind of things might Daily Kos ask me before permitting me to rant express my opinions here?
What follows is an imaginary interview by an imaginary member of the Daily Kos editorial staff.
DK: So, Fish, what brought you to Daily Kos?
Fish: I'd heard about this site here and there, but it was a post on Nate Silver's blog that first attracted me to DK. I followed it over here, read Markos's comments on the poll, and it had me chuckling all day. Even though R2K has since been discredited, it was still a great piece of writing. I've come here every day since.
DK: What did you like about the piece?
Fish: The bit about secessionists being given a homeland in the Texas Panhandle, for starters.
DK: Dumbfuckistan?
Fish: That's the one.
DK: So you come here for amusement?
Fish: Well, sort of. At first, anyway. The fact is I'm all over the Internet. CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, the Washington Post, just about any place I can find news and commentary. I also follow the polls daily, and what I have been seeing there of late is downright depressing. So I came to Kos in search of a little levity. Lately, I come here to find refuge.
DK: From?
Fish: The daily onslaught of bad news. Democrats Done in November; Stick a Fork In It. Obama Approval at All-Time Low. Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly. Republicans Blast Stimulus. Republicans Blast Jobs Bill. Republicans Blast Obama on Mosque Comments. Republicans Buy Controlling Interest in DuPont Explosives Factory.
DK: How do you find refuge from that here?
Fish: There are people like me here. People who remind me that we're not wrong just because we're up against it right now.
DK: "We" being...
Fish: Progressives. Democrats. Clear thinkers.
DK: And you believe you'll fit in with us?
Fish: That's my hope. The Big Tent, you know. So what do you think?
DK: That's what the poll is for.