Just wanted to write a quick note to all the FDL peeps at Netroots Nation. If you’re here, let us know! We’d love to meet up with you. We’re going to try to put together an ad hoc Firedoglake Caucus, so stay tuned for info on that.

Finally, if you’re here and tweeting, let us know your Twitter name in the comments. We’ll include you in the FDL NN10 twitter widget on the sidebar of the homepage.

All I am asking for is ONE DAY OF LIBERAL PURITY.

If you could declare your own Day of Purity, what would your standards be?

I’m not going to pull any punches here. I detest the two party system. I believe that it undermines representative government. It makes our government more responsive to corporations than to citizens. It decreases the chances of progress and it results in many good ideas being shut out of the national political debate.

The limits imposed on this nation by the two party system are slowly leading to its demise. Partisan gridlock in Washington, outright corruption, the absurd difficulty of kicking out incumbents, corporate control of Washington, and the infamous backwardness of many local governments (among /many/ things) are all symptoms of this same disease. And I do not use that language lightly.

I’ve been getting more active in the Green Party lately, and apparently so have some people at FDL. So, I’m in a rush so I apologize for this diary lacking comprehensiveness, but here’s a list of Greens worth supporting off the top of my head.

Firedoglake is proud to announce the newest section of our website: FDL TV.

time to change this game

This is just a short list of what I think the responsibilities of a good political blogger are. I know we fill up the physical world with garbage:

Here I just wish to suggest ways of producing not-garbage in the political blogosphere. Opinions below are merely the product of the author.

(Crossposted at Orange)

maybe we get more traction if we control arms dealers and makers . . .

It’s not easy to find simple things in such a complicated world. Or is it?

geez guys, i’m having a weird few years . . . and it’s only getting weirder . . .