First things first.
Thanks to everyone who has been contacting me and offering ideas or their own material to post. Your response is much appreciated. If I haven’t gotten back to you in a timely fashion, my apologies.
For those of you who don’t know much about me, a quick review.
Personal information: I’m about to turn 58 years old and I suffer from a rare chronic autoimmune disorder (Google TRAPS disease if you have any interest). My energy level is much lower than it used to be as my illness has worsened as I’ve aged.
I started posting here in 2005. Martin has had other people to whom he offered front page privileges, but for some reason I have been the person who stuck around the longest, though, in a greatly diminished capacity the last two years.
Martin/Booman and I usually focus our attention on different areas of the political blogospheric spectrum. I’m a just person with opinions and interests regarding a mixed bag of topics, on none of which I have any great expertise: climate change, war, healthcare, police brutality, foreign affairs and general outrage at the views and insanity of the right wing.
He’s someone with a great deal of hands on experience in the political arena, and a remarkably hardworking, intelligent analyst of the current political scene. Booman covers a variety of issues, of course, as any blogger does, but in my opinion, his experience as an activist and organizer (among others) adds a level of insight I simply do not possess. Roughly speaking, I’m more id, and he’s more ego if you want to go all Freudian on it. However, it is his voice that defines Booman Tribune, the one that readers primarily associate with this place.
Until he returns, the front page will be presenting a different voice, or to be precise, many different voices, and they will differ in tone and writing style even if the basic subject – matters relating to politics and current events – remain the same. I’d ask that everyone here remember the primary rule of this place: don’t be a dick. It generally works well.
Ok, please treat this as a morning open thread. I’m heading out for coffee.
Ps. Apparently, in the alternate reality known as our broadcast Sunday political news shows, the massive climate march in NYC yesterday, the largest in history, wasn’t worth talking about. How convenient for them.