Not so happy new year
This was supposed to be our gala grand opening day, the debut of the new Aggressive Progressive, (Remember, Bloggeroids, we've moved the main site) the day it formally morphed from a blog to a community of ideas on the left.
While we’re open for business and everything is tweaked within an inch of its life, it is hard to draw much enthusiasm this first day of 2005. As the death toll continues to spike in Southeast Asia, numbers that could horribly, incredibly pass 500,000 deaths, with millions more homeless. 100,000 more are dead in Iraq because of a pointless and dishonest war, and the forces of evil are massing at the ramparts ready to destroy Social Security for no reason better than to line the pockets of Wall Street’s tycoons, nice guys who love to write giant campaign contributions to the GOP.
All in all, at the dawn of 2005, Earth is not exactly a happening place.
And while the blogosphere has been abuzz with entries about the tsunami disaster, there’s not much I can add, other than to note that we’d added a logo to the left for Unicef (on the new blog, click here to see it), please click it and help if you are in a position to do so, and that our prayers go out to the victims, their families and the survivors, many of whom will have to rebuild despite grinding poverty in many of areas struck by the disaster.
We’ll have our New Year’s Resolutions for other people tomorrow, and Dan will have updated rankings in the presidential derby. Now that I totally finished with creation of the new site, I can and will turn my attention to being the lusty content provider you’ve come to love (or dispise). Caity O’Loughlin and Al Tustin are due back shortly from their respective holiday ski vacations in Vail and Detroit (every year, Al gets drunk and skis down Woodward Avenue behind a 1976 El Camino. He claims it keeps him young.)
Finally, we’ll have our preview of the Electoral College vote and guess which senators might be willing to challenge those wacky Ohio electoral votes. Will it matter? Will it bring on the first Constitutional crisis in more than a century, or will the GOP short-circuit it all in the U.S. House? Pop some popcorn, it should be a dandy.
Meanwhile, wander over to the boards, sign up, pick out a comfy chair and post a comment or two.
