Saw a comment thread and joined it talking about how long we had been here and I realized that it had been some time since anyone had asked us how long and why we came to this island of dKos. I joined up Jan 12, 2004. I had had three miserable years with BushCo and wanted no more of it. Lost a good chunk of my savings from the dot.com bubble burst. I was laid off because I was too old and a handicap to the pension plan at my company. I had tried various ventures to see if I could start my own company or do some independent work of some sort since I was over 55. But wasn’t particularly successful.
I saw a blog entry maybe from WaPo talking about dKos and I thought, that might be for me too! It might have been Froomkin's blog but I have somebody elses face in mind when I go back in my head to that time. And sure nough it was. But enough about me. What about YOU? What brings you to these shores of orangeness? Have you understood about pie fights yet? I love a good tale so let us hear yours.
Froomkin's last blog entry at wapo talks about how awful the Bush years were just in case you have forgotten.
So tell us please what your uid is (the number that will soon disappear so we might as well celebrate it while it still lives!) You will find it on your profile or by running over your user name at the bottom of a comment. And tell us what brought you here. And tell us what pie fights you have survived (if you wish to as some of us vets might just like to forget!)