Opening Statement Dear FRiends: I once suffered two great frustrations in being a freelance political writer. First, the loneliness: you put an article out there, and you might as well have thrown it down a black hole for all the response you get. Second, the ghettoization: when you do get response, it would be from folks you agree with. Not fun for folks like me who reliish--no, crave and need--political argument. Then came the Internet, the blogs--and: problem solved. I have especially enjoyed having my articles in the Village Voice posted on Free Republic by "dead," and arguing about them...
