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You would think that bars would make a bigger deal of celebrating the end of Prohibition. Any excuse, you know.

There was a time that I would visit DailyKos every day for news and opinion about political events and activities, but I doubt I visit there even once a month at this point. It's been over a year since I've posted a diary there.

Am I the exception to the trend? I look at DK's sitemeter traffic, and they've increased traffic considerably this year:

What about you? Do you visit DailyKos more or less this year than in 2007 at this point? What am I missing?

A few interesting posts for your consideration:

Wegmans? No Bus For You!

All Wegmans' stores have a corporate policy against allowing public transportation onto their property and none of the three Wegmans stores in the Lehigh Valley enjoy public transportation into their store parking lots.

So THIS is what you have to do if you get a lot of comments on your blog.

It makes sense that lower tariffs could increase the costs from invasive species.

Waxed Paper Negatives.

News of the unexpected: Mike Huckabee defends Jeremiah Wright. I bet there aren't many Republicans that will agree with Huckabee.

The six word memoir meme keeps bouncing around, and I'm never asked, so I'm just going to snag it and shoot it out to others anyways. How about this for my life description: Almost always landing on my feet. Then I'm supposed to tag five others, so here it is: Daddy Democrat, Excuse the Mess, Halushki, Frank, and The Spinning Goth.

Is our economic system, currently or possibly, a collectively self-managing system?

The Big D word is being used more and more. And more and more and more.

Is there a relationship between March Madness and when men schedule their vasectomies? Or will there be?

Oh man, I've been busted:

On the question of defining agnosticism, one of the comments here nailed it IMHO:

The common forms are some variant of “I don’t know if there’s a God or not,” either a weak version that claims there’s simply not enough evidence to make a determination or a stronger version that says the question isn’t answerable. In both cases there’s no belief, there’s abstention. I’ve honestly never encountered someone claiming to be agnostic who wasn’t either one of those...

And for the Irish in you, here are 17 Irish recipes in 17 Days to celebrate St Patrick's.

One sufferer shares ...

To be a Clinton blogger in the progressive blogosphere is to be hated, shunned, passed without notice in the street. We sit home on Friday nights, cursing at Chris Matthews and being censored by Al Giordano for commenting too often in a field of swaying Obama supplication. We're not welcome at all the best dKos parties - if we show up, we're cursed with the universal epithet of those who challenge the Obama hegemony: "troll," they call us. Sometimes "f'ing troll." We're Rovian in our embrace of the monster, closet Bush backers and much worse - Lieberman types!

I feel your pain, brother!

(Except for the part about sitting home on Friday nights)

Hey, Philadelphians: Maybe, just maybe, that parking ticket you received isn't really valid.

Is anonymous posting really that bad? Well, the often-affiliated spamming is, but just anonymity?

There's now a Slow Food Harrisburg blog.

I dunno, I don't think this ATM for books concept will take off, but I've been wrong here before...

Is being infected with malaria worth $2000?

Such an opinion about basketball is the creation of spectators and not participants. Get off your butts and play!

Meet the New Media, same as the Old Media.

I must admit I was a little surprised. I have not been fired in a long time (decades, really), and I think I'm having a pretty good run in the crowded precincts of political commentary. True, my last few postings at TPM Café were not in keeping with the overwhelming majority of their articles, making and making the case for Senator Barack Obama. I questioned the value of an Idaho caucus victory. I criticized Maureen Dowd's column suggesting that when a perfect female candidate came along, the media would be delighted to support her. I suggested that "Josh" might have waited to get more survey results before he posted his video embracing the ultimately erroneous Zogby predictions for the California primary the afternoon before the primary. But I thought that the new media of the blogosphere was actually established in part to offset what they considered the tendency of the MSM to cut its coverage to suit its preexisting, largely establishment, predilections. So I was blithely oblivious to the possibility that my dissenting views on the inevitability and divinity of the Obama candidacy might cause a problem.

I always thought Josh Marshall was aiming a bit higher on the journalistic ladder with his site. Too bad.

And Rupert Murdoch runs with it!

Yesterday, I was on the subway to work. An elderly black man was reading Murdoch's tabloid, NY Post. He turned to a page with 2 photos similar to photos in a Daily Kos recommended Diary: "March 5, 2008 — A prominent left-wing Web site is questioning whether Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is playing the race card - by darkening the tone of Barack Obama's skin in a new TV attack ad."

Propaganda from dKos is so useful to Republicans, that Murdoch is giving it wings.

There's been plenty of ill-advised fire on both sides but disappointing to see this kind of silliness from an influential figure like Kos. Will the A-List lefty bloggers ruin the netroots for November? Who would have guessed the combustible Atrios would be one of the few keeping his powder dry?

Makes me glad I'm a Z-Lister.