'Tis my turn on the askie-go-round today. I am known around these parts by the pen name Hunter, which is a perfectly good pen name and which, as it turns out, works equally well with pencils, mechanical pencils, sharpies, typewriters, keyboards, and some sauces if the texture is just right. I am not
anonymous, despite what many angry emails to me over the years have charged. Those people are stupid.
On the site, I have been given the unfortunate task of writing mostly about Republicans, or to be specific certain Republicans. If Rep. Louie Gohmert demands that people stop casting aspersions on his asparagus, a little light comes on near my desk informing me. If conservative power broker Jim DeMint is still peeved that his side lost the War of Northern Aggression, I get an urgent note. If Ann Coulter has a new book to sell, I ... do nothing, because the world no longer gives two poops about Ann Coulter. Seriously, even satirists have standards. Kee-ryst. The point of all of this is to remind the world that we live in truly interesting times, and yes we mean that in a bad way, and that for all our exceptionalism America here and there seems one more cocaine-using televangelist away from becoming a failed state. So, ya know, watch out for that.
And now we come to the unavoidable truth of this whole Ask Me Anything thing: I'm pretty sure all possible questions have already been answered. The tech people handle the tech questions, and the campaign-running people handle the campaign-running questions, and the Daily Kos writing staff handles all the questions about which things ought to be referred to the tech people and which ones to the campaign-running people. Nope, I think we've covered it all. Sure, there's plenty of other questions in the world that can be asked, but not many of them have a specific Daily Kos tie in, which is what we've all constrained ourselves to here.
"In a fight between a grizzly bear and two hundred rabbits, who would win?"
"I don't understand. These are supposed to be questions about Daily Kos."
"Oh. Yeah, the bear is wearing a Daily Kos t-shirt."
"Huh. All right, I guess the bear would win. Though that sure is a lot of rabbits."
So I suppose one way we could make this interesting is to turn it around a bit. I'm on the writing staff. I write stuff. Other people write stuff. What would all of you like to see more of on the front page? Not necessarily specific topic-wise, but form-wise. More long-form pieces? More short pieces? More cultural stuff, i.e. television shows and the like? More videos? Less videos? More stories about anthropomorphized animal mascots representing positive abstract ideas? More trips to places like CPAC? Fewer? What's your poison?
Oh, and yeah—ask me anything. But not the bear thing, I already answered that.