Thank you for your most kind comment.
“Old-timer” is a badge I will proudly wear around here.
And you’re no noob—coming up on fifteen years in five weeks or so! Congratulations!
Due to work policy, I lurked from very early on and didn’t register until we were coming up on the Impeachment House Manger’s dinner. Used to meet up on a MS chat that Yellow Rose of Texas had going in ‘98. All that in context of you being a 98 alumni who I remember well.
There are, as you point out, key moments of activism where the digging and tight analysis, we sometimes can generate here, seem to be an internet nexus of information and motivation.
We waste way too much time on bickering with each other in the last ten years.
I guess I should also add that in those days (98 to 2001) it was rare to ever see someone post about something as mundane, pedestrian, mainstream, childish and inconsequential as a talk radio entertainer.
It was 2000 before newbies even began to post about “what Rush is saying.”
I walked neighborhoods for Goldwater as a kid. I built the KC radio station where Rush got back into Radio after working as a guy in the marketing department of the KC Royals. We were conservative when it wasn’t even cool and edgy.