Ten years ago this past Halloween, I washed up on these shores and felt like I had found a safe harbor. It was more than a place for like minded people to congregate. This was a site where 20 percent of the senate posted their thoughts. It was a place that had impact. Those days are gone. Now people rally around a standard bearer for the party who never even bothers to read what is written here. This is not news. The writing was on the wall for some time now, but the passing of the great jester, jbou, really brought this into focus for me. Going over his old writings, I stumbled across one of his recent lines that rings truer now than ever before. It’s the sort of thing that deserves to be an epitaph.
Arguing on Dailykos is like taking your time and setting it on fire.
They say the truth plainly stated is still the truth. There is no doubt that ignoring jbou’s simple truth would be Mything The Point. There was a time when I would have argued his observation was not true. But that time, like jbou, is gone.