Traditions, traditions.
Let me be the first to say it as I have with others such as DarkSyde, georgia10, mcjoan, Superribbie, SusanG, BarbinMD, Devilstower, KagroX, MissLaura:
hekebolos, Angry Mouse, and exmearden are bad for Daily Kos
Speaking of KagroX, no one ever sees him around any more do they? Lesson to ya, don't be my nemesis unless you want to disappear for good.
hekebolos - or Dante Inferno as he apparently wants to be called - is a shooter. I'll gather more evidence on that in California as soon as I finish my Hawaii research (thanks MB for the funding) on Barack Obama's "birth certificate). As you can see from his gun site, Hekebolos gets even fewer comments and updates less frequently than I do.
exmearden, whose prison name was Xmear X (kos gets a lot of his front pagers from a California penal work release program and mojo is important to them for early release points), is notorious for biting the head off a bald eagle at Netroots Nation 2009. In her defense, she did it not because she hates America (which she does) but because she hates the Philadelphia Eagles and she got caught up in being in Pittsburgh.
Angry Mouse is a real live rodent. No fooling. What kind of impact will it have on the Pootie Diarists, already angry about their exclusion from top comments, to have vermin taunting them on the front page? I lived through the Pie Wars. I even recall the blood bath after the 2004 Shut Your Piehole riots (pie also has been bad for Daily Kos). But are we ready for pooties and a Mouse to get along?
I've said it before, the site is doomed. Doomed, I say!
Also soonergrunt.