The Blogosphere gets weird.
I'll be the first to admit that I haven't been paying much attention to anybody else's blog, not to mention my own. You've already seen the list of reasons for that, but that's not why I'm posting today.
I'm watching the equivalent of a drunken barroom brawl between Angry Black Lady and Glenn Greenwald (background here and here). While it holds a certain amount of trainwreck-type appeal, it illustrates perfectly the problems that the Democratic party faces going into the 2012 elections - and the central argument of whether Barack Obama is the perfect liberal that people wanted or expected him to be.
Short answer - he's not. And anyone who expected him to be a perfect liberal were expecting way too much, given the toxic atmosphere of politics in the early 21st century.
There's a certain advantage in watching these things from a safe distance, but it's still sort of depressing to watch them when placed in the context of the problems that Obama already faces going into re-election mode.
Anyway. First post of the new year, yada yada. Happy New Year to the 3 or 4 people who might actually read this. Who ya got in the Iowa Klown Kar Death Match?