LWM: Sockpuppetry?! You!? I am shocked, shocked! I won’t ask who/where/how… but if you ever decide to start your own blog, please don’t keep it a secret.

I’m also an amateur. I’ve got more time on my hands than people who have to work for a living, true, but deadlines don’t mean much to me, except for the deadline implied by that gaunt figure in the corner with the scythe. He always has the last word, no matter our aspirations.

As for others taking up the slack, well…. That seems iffy, doesn’t it? I’m all for letting a hundred flowers bloom, but not necessarily all in the same place. A poor thing, but mine own appeals to me — more than it should, I suppose, but after 30-some years of wage slavery, I figure I’m entitled.

Give it time and in a year or so a suitable regular commenter – which you will attract – will present themselves.

I actually am planning to post more often, and on a wider variety of subjects, but the world being what it is, no sooner did I launch the thing than I was caught up in a round of Democratic Party meetings, and then a long-promised dinner party, which was great fun, but temporarily redirected the priorities from opinionation to vegetable chopping and pot-walloping.

I’m in it for the long haul, though, and the door will always be open.

Hey there, LWM! I’ve wondered where you might be hanging out on the toobz.

Probably most of what happens here will be above my intellectual pay grade, too, but I’ll try not to make a nuisance of myself.

As for the topic…

…there’s little practical difference these days between the government owning the banks and the banks owning the government.

Sadly true.

In fact, that vote where they shot down the opportunity to help out homeowners facing foreclosure sent me online to do something I’d been thinking about. I changed my registration from Demcratic to Independent.

It was sooooo unseemly, after they had given away billions and billions and billions to the fat cats.

LWM, it’s nice to cross paths with you again.

Google will offer up a link easily enough if I place Canecittà in the search window. And, will even translate it as dog town if I separate it into cane città.

Perhaps, WT, you might indicate how much notoriety you’d like. I caught an early reference to the notion you were thinking about it, but it was an oblique reference to feeding a maw at cocktailhag’s place that prompted me to click on your link.

I suspect your ruminations will be above my intellectual pay grade, but if you don’t mind my lurking in the background and following along I’ll keep this bookmark handy.

Best wishes on your meditative endeavor!

That’s ’cause the whole enterprise is a) reluctant, b) as the subtitle says, a series of meditations, mostly private in nature, so propping up the soapbox really isn’t essential, and c) given my age and infirmities, more leisurely than, say, Atrios or Digby. Besides, I don’t gotta make a living at it, do I?

I do hope that in time, at least a few people will stumble across it and find it worth reading — direct argument is a good reality check. In the world of a billion blogs, though, what are the chances of that unless I hire a calliope?

Finally, yeah, your view of Jefferson comports pretty well with mine. Some of my friends back in the day were a lot like him, which is probably why I find him so simpatico.

Don’t quit now. You are just getting started.

How do we get google to bring up your blog when someone searches Timberman or Dogtown Essay?