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Las Vegas
ONE question kept popping up again and again at the YearlyKos convention, the gathering of devotees of the Left's biggest and most popular political website, DailyKos. The question was: How can we persuade people that we're not nuts? "How do you avoid being seen as just a bunch of crazy bloggers?" asked a woman at one of many panel discussions devoted to blogs and their role in left-wing politics. How do we erase "the stigma of the crazy leftist blogger"? asked another. And just for emphasis, a few participants made their own statements by walking around wearing crudely fashioned tinfoil hats.
It was a good joke, sort of. But what about the ...