...and Disqus appears to have eaten it. Nine times out of ten, I write a long post anywhere, I copy it before I post it. This time, I didn't. And my nice long ranty post disappeared into 'moderation'. (I was posting to 'The Lost Battalion', the open thread on Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog over at the Atlantic. Hence the 'Horde' from the other day, ( Read more... )

I spent nearly the whole day in Virginia puttering around Olde Towne Alexandria. Being lost, trying to find parking spaces, meeting up with the DC Horde at a coffee house and then moving on to a pizza place after the coffee house kicked us out. Nearly 20 of us showed up, including one each from Chicago and Atlanta, and we got to know each other ( Read more... )

So far I have ( Read more... )