dailyKos, Participatory Journalism and Politics As If It Mattered

This story over at the dailyKos blog, and the one immediately preceeding it (about blog-based fundraising to permit an ordinary American to run for office) are two great examples of how the Internet can make a big difference … even when almost every source of information and means of obtaining elected office in the USA are corrupted beyond repair.

Jim Greenwood and I go back a long time… Twenty-one years plus change. I was 23, he must have been in his early 30s… but I digress… first I’ll cut to the quick.

At 7:00 a.m. this morning Jim called his chief of staff to say “I’ve made a decision.” He explained that he was dropping out.

Why?

 

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