On reviewing this week's parsha, I found that the "kos" is one of the birds forbidden to eat. Rashi believes it to be an owl. This can be nothing more than a kol mishamayim! Besides, I am getting all my entertainment value from Dov Bear anyway.
I am worried about my participation in the kosverse. Not only does nobody like me at all, it is perhaps important to read more academic blogs on a regular basis. I have seen Crooked Timber and Michael Berube only in the runup to the Koufax Awards. These were excellent blogs, but since I spend all my time on kos I have not had much time to read them. The Next Hurrah is getting off to a very promising start and is still my homepage. That netscape.com was getting on my nerves. My poor husband has been forced to do all his Internet activity in IE to avoid The Next Hurrah as a homepage.
On high-profile issues such as Social Security, the bankruptcy bill, and Terri Schiavo, a Kos consensus forms very fast. I have still not researched the true effects of the bankruptcy bill for Armando. I can read the NYT and say, "This is what the majority of Kossacks will be up in arms about". I am still surprised that the proposed arms sale to Pakistan got very little play here. I took one look at it and said, "Now the Kossacks will have something else to talk about". My husband then said the sensible thing, "If we sell arms to the Pakistanis then the Europeans[or Chinese or North Koreans!] are not selling it to them and we can make sure of what is in the weapons in a way we could not if it was some other country". Working for a defense contractor comes in handy sometimes.
One of the great things about dKos is the liberal passion here. Unfortunately, there are many diaries where there is a lot of heat and not a lot of light. Jerome a Paris's diary yesterday was a good example IMHO (the comments, not the diary).
I wonder if we are similar to the freepers in relating to each other based on settled opinions that "everybody knows" in the Kos circle.
Since C&J is likely to be up by now, I will probably not get 600 comments, but I thought I would give it a shot :)