[edited and updated - now with enhanced (that is to say, clarified) skepticism!]
Been on hiatus from Dkos for awhile. (Props to my psychic friends that I popped back in just in time for the long-awaited Beta of DK4!)
Been angry lately too, & falling back toward the kind of despair that started to lift for me with Dean and the blogosphere around 2003. Looking at Markos' recent post, and the comments there, tells me I'm not entirely alone in this.
Filibuster reform (to pull something else off today's front page) would be fantastic, and maybe a sea-change. But taking back the presidency from Bush (and Cheney), and putting in an African-American intellectual -- one who, while clearly rather moderate, cut his teeth as a grassroots activist on the streets of Chicago -- might have been expected to create a bit more change as well. Follow me over the fold for some big questions. Not claims, mind you, questions -- none of which have anything to do with exactly how certain building were destroyed (a question to which I pretty much believe the 'mainstream' answer).