Comments on: The Antidote http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/29/the-antidote/ Law, Native American Issues, Progressive Politics, and Whatever Happens to Piss Me Off Today Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/29/the-antidote/#comment-116 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:21:00 +0100 http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/29/the-antidote/#comment-116 Amen, Steve! It's funny; my experience was the exact opposite of yours. I already knew of Joe's writing through his NYO columns. When <i>The Hunting of the President</i> came out, I knew Gene Lyons was the [or, rather, one] author, but it was a while before I realized that he had a co-author, and that it was none other than Conason. Don't ask me how I missed that - to this day, I don't know. But for those of us involved in progressive politics, policy, and news, I think Joe is truly one of life's blessings. Amen, Steve!

It’s funny; my experience was the exact opposite of yours. I already knew of Joe’s writing through his NYO columns. When The Hunting of the President came out, I knew Gene Lyons was the [or, rather, one] author, but it was a while before I realized that he had a co-author, and that it was none other than Conason. Don’t ask me how I missed that - to this day, I don’t know. But for those of us involved in progressive politics, policy, and news, I think Joe is truly one of life’s blessings.

]]> by: Steve Bates http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/29/the-antidote/#comment-115 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:25:25 +0100 http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/29/the-antidote/#comment-115 Conason is a stellar light in my skies. It is ironic that I did not know of him before <i>The Hunting of the President</i>, and even then I bought the book because I knew the work of Gene Lyons. Since that time, Conason has been one of those individuals I have come to depend upon never to bullshit me. If he's occasionally mistaken, and that's rare enough, he's never, ever spinning. And yes, he has shown himself to be blogosphere-friendly a number of times, including an appearance on an extended comment thread on (I think) Firedoglake a while back. We need a dozen of him, or at least a dozen with his attitude. Conason is a stellar light in my skies. It is ironic that I did not know of him before The Hunting of the President, and even then I bought the book because I knew the work of Gene Lyons. Since that time, Conason has been one of those individuals I have come to depend upon never to bullshit me. If he’s occasionally mistaken, and that’s rare enough, he’s never, ever spinning. And yes, he has shown himself to be blogosphere-friendly a number of times, including an appearance on an extended comment thread on (I think) Firedoglake a while back. We need a dozen of him, or at least a dozen with his attitude.

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