General Discussion

I was looking for somewhere to discuss news. Free Republic is a bizarro right website that’s like following responses in the Classified section of the paper.

They were ripping on a Pitt article. I read it and obviously thought I agreed with much of what he was saying. Somewhere in the murkiness of FR I saw a mention of DU so I looked for it.

Not only is DU a great source from a lot of really knowledgeable people but the set up is vastly different. I’ve yet to see any site so easy to navigate and continue discussions.

DU, wise and otherwise but it’s been a big part of my life for over 20 years. Immeasurable amount learned here (boy did I get torn up and learn from making a side joke about the Coffee Lady) and shared.

I met and marched with Will Pitt against the Iraq War. Several DU’ers. Took a train up to DC October 26, 2003 (read in Quint’s voice from Jaws) a week before my marriage. As much as we tried to keep our opinion of news/politics away from our daughter, she figured it out (she’s very smart) and basically came to the same basic place. She told me recently that, at one point when she was younger, she thought Democratic Undergound was an actual subversive/radical group of operatives that Dad was involved with.