Daily Kos is (well, was) down, offline, hacked … whatever …
Daily Kos, the biggest blog extent for Democratic politics, has been offline for about an hour as I type this; and if I were the type of blogger who lives for conspiracy theories, I would be blaming John McCain, AT&T, Verizon, Hillary Clinton, General Petraeus, the freeping loons at Free Republic … the list of suspects would be longer than the number of keywords with which I might fill out this sentence to make it buzzworthy.
Drat. It’s back up. Never mind. Move along. Nothing to see here. 
It was probably just some sort of server hiccup. Daily Kos is among the reasons I rarely write anything serious about politics — almost everything I might want to say gets said by *someone* there before I can get around to typing. If I’m going to write politics, I prefer to stick to humor, satire, parody, etc. and pick my spots.
I do have a sense that the next president of the United States is going to be Barack Obama, as in, we’ve gotten to the point where I will be surprised if anything derails him. I’m not saying this as someone who has been for him, or as someone who is jumping on the bandwagon. I think it is clear that Hillary Clinton won’t be taking the nomination from him; and that Republicans don’t have a prayer what with taking the blame for the economy being down the toilet. I wish the election could be about the stupidity of fighting a war of occupation in a country where we’re not wanted …
Ahh, well. Daily Kos is back up. I’m sure someone there already said it better, and at length.
jss @ April 9, 2008
