About 30 minutes later, I found a post online at Huffington Post called Effing Hillary Jilts Kossacks and Bernita and I laughed at how right she had been.

This morning what do I find on the Huffington Post? Not only can you not find that original post (!!) but now Taylor Marsh has a (second) diary on the front page called "Clinton Didn't 'Jilt' Yearlykos" which explains so sincerely how wrong it was, that Clinton had never promised to do a breakout session, that it was all a "snafu" of some type, some communications error.

Whatever. Clearly Clinton's people got all War of Terror ("gangsta shit," as Bernita said just now, laughing) on that post and crushed it. I mean, how can you have a front page diary talking about a post that is no longer linked or able to be read? Does this somehow mitigate the reality that you are operating via Memory Hole? Okay. Gotcha.

Yeesh. That's weiiiird. I mean, I always kinda scrunch up when people talk about bloggers as if they're members of the press corps unless the blog itself establishes its reputation that way. There's a difference between reporting the truth and being a part of the press corps, you know. Anyway, HuffPo...well...does have that "news reporting away from MSM" kind of reputation, so it's kinda significant that its editors/writers would choose that course.

And I said YK would ground you, not age you. Refresh that youth elixir, 'mano! Do you drink coffee, specifically on hectic conference weekends? :-p

cerial and booze - breakfast of champions!

Interesting...Firedoglake reported the same Clinton contremps, and that still seems up. They were also a good deal more starry-eyed about Dean as well, but then again it's a bit harder for them to spot that bit of colonization behavior being, as far as I can tell, fairly nice, liberal, whitebread folks with a dash of queer (white male) tossed in.

Still, I think Dean's point about the nature of the discourse changing (provided we don't get stomped into a fascist dicatorship sometime in the next few years) between politicians and The People is an extremely important one...

Get yourself some coffee! ;-)

Sounds like a good crowd. As for Dean, well he should not have used the term "colorblind" that in itself shows how clueless he is. Bad Faux Pas there Dean, stick to campaign reform and ending the war.

you look nice today. :)

I guess everyone is working hard/ playing hard in chitown. i can never go out late and wake up early when i know i'm going to have a busy day. i don't know how people do it. I have a lot of aquaintances that do this and i start to wonder if they ever sleep. but i know the trick to not feeling like i am being left out: i go out with them have a drink. check the scene, then leave. but, yes, i second silvia, have some coffee (not that you are not already drinking lots of coffee--you seem like the type). :P

TO CLARIFY Dean didn't use the word COLORBLIND, I may not have been clear about that. He just said that color didn't matter to the younger generation. Hmmm...Also, the baggy pants comment was brought up again this morning by one of the panelists...the audience laughed.

I stand corrected Carmen. I guess that he felt that it did not matter in the same way that it mattered to his generation, which would be correct, but it still matters.

Hey, Carmen has a nice site, I just checked it out, and I can't wait to see the grafix fix you do to it sooner or later. Luego!

My mom and her family are from Chicago. Other than that, I don't know much about it except that the weather is bad. And that building hotels near Els and freeways and such may make getting there convenient, but are for sure not good for your customers getting a good nights sleep.

Looking over the speakers list and the various programs at YK, I can see that they are still fairly clueless on issues with "diversity in the blogosphere" and stuff, but they are trying, lol. Still, I'm sure it must be interesting and also fun meeting various people, and coalitioning and having the caucuses and such and hopefully your overall memories of the event will be grand ones (just sleep thru the plane rides).

I'm finally getting myself together now that I'm back in the OK panhandle, and checking out your dispatches from the YK gig. Glad to read you're having a good time.

I think the big question for Kossacks is principles or party? And are they Imperialists?
(and I hope Kellog's show you some love for the endorsement!)

Je, je, je... welcome to the rest of your life :-)

Being of the Groucho Marxist persuasion ("I'd never join any club that would have me as a member") I'm just as happy not to be caught up in the blogswampia of organized blogging. It seems to work against the whole concept of giving voice to the "real world" outside the mass media echo chamber.

Besides, who would I meet with? The travel writers, the progressives, the Latin American specialists, the Texans, the (pinche güero who writes about) Mexico?

Seriously, I think there's a problem in getting all the bloggers to "sing with one voice" about anything. I put up, and pulled down a post on Bill O'Reily the other day -- it was peripherally concerned with Mexico, which is my focus -- but not particularly important to anything other than my fellow "progressives" latest theme (or "meme" or whatever the buzzword is today). Oh sure, by all means meet and greet and drink too much at weird hours, but don't forget that you're writing for Nezua and Nezua's fans... not for Daily Kos or Huffington Post.

Me bing shallow as sin for amoment

Why you so cute?