Make It Two, Another Blogger REALLY Supports Brunner

You started a blog just to support Brunner. Admirable, but my criticism was aimed at bloggers (including myself) who support Brunner but never took any real action on it.

Creating "Backing Brunner" was an action in and of itself.

"Keep in mind that there are several different bloggers at ODB and we all might not support the same candidate."

Sounds like your under the same spell I was. It's your name on the post, do whatever you want with it. Don't worry about what the others believe, they have their own posts with their own name at the top.

You might not have the sidebar, but you own the space from the title to the comments. And don't let anyone else say otherwise.

yeah, i'm beginning to get the feeling that david enjoys his role as that "man behind the curtain."  hehe

The reason logins sometimes don't appear to "stick" or that comments don't appear all go back to the same issue, a bad cache.

To skip all the tech jargon, you often load a static copy of the site rather than having the server actually create all of BSB's mystic beauty from the code it holds. For some reason, this has been all out of sorts lately.

As for the spam, there's a very simple explanation for that: this is the internet, it's full of spam. Unfortunately, BSB's just a little more vulnerable to it that some other sites.

Never my intention to drag you into the fight, but I do think blogs as a whole need to get motivated. And the ones that are (in this specific case, you) need to be pointed out as examples to the rest.

We've all done some good things that we should be proud of, but we've also become somewhat complacent and toned down. This is not name calling or making people defend themselves, I was the poster boy for this complacency. And, for that matter, there's no reason we can't take strong positions and not keep things somewhat civil.

And as of the time this post was written I hadn't actually created the ActBlue page, so it all applies to me as well. In fact, nothing has been posted at BSB concerning adopting your fundraising idea yet.

But regardless of that, this was a great idea and it deserved recognition.

If you've seen my posts over the last few days, it's obvious I was building up to some sort of Brunner fundraising drive. But your idea was way more clever and inventive. I love it, it I've just tried to borrow the idea and make it more accessible by providing a way to donate and a goal to send the message publicly. In fact, I'm looking for a way to share the embed html publicly tomorrow so that anyone else can use it.