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I spent a few hours over the weekend remodeling the site. I'm almost done. Let me know how you like it.

In a related vein, I wanted to take a moment and observe an anniversary of sorts -- I've been blogging here since January of 2002. Back then, I called the site "Postmodern Politics" and I was running it on Blogger. And, any day now, I'm sure the comments will start working again.

Prior to that, my good friend Sandy and I used Yahoo Groups to document our daily email discussion of what I had naively called "The Campaign of the Century" -- the Presidential election of 2000. I think those emails are still on the Yahoo server somewhere, so when the Smithsonian calls, we'll be able to accomodate their request.

Prior to that, I wrote an email newsletter called "Democratic Issues" during the years after the 1994 midterm elections and leading up to the Presidential election of 1996. Back then, blogs didn't exist, yet somehow we managed to defeat Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.

And prior to that, well, I guess I've been talking and reading about politics since I turned on a TV and watched the Kennedy-Nixon debates of 1960. I was seven years old and didn't have a computer. Yet.

Not sure what else to say except "Thanks" -- for reading, for commenting and for offering your feedback (positive and negative) over the years.

P.S. If I was having more fun, I'd have to be twins.

IJS.