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December 23, 2017 11:26 AM UTC

Happy 13th Birthday to Us!

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On this day 13 years ago, Colorado Pols made its first appearance on the Internet tubes. Thank you for continuing to make us the single most important online destination in the entire universe.

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  1. Happy 13th! Hope Pols survives another decade, at least. I have appreciated the chance to grow as a writer from posting on here. Who is that in the picture – the infamous Alva? ( I know it's not Bane or Franklin).

  3. HaPpY BiRtHdAY, Pols! You appear to have outlasted our resident Librarian who once assured us all there were “less than 40 people in the whole world who visited this site”. To anti-channel our most precious Nutlid: Viva la Partisan Hell Hole!

  4. Congratulations on an amazingly open and entertaining site.  I've grown up as a blogger at Pols from the wide open days of brilliant commentary with Laughing Boy to the weird craziness of BJ and that fellow who got banned to our laughable 'One and Done' Moldy.  I want to thank all the bloggers like Michael and Mama who take the time to put together thoughtful pieces.  With the loss of Net Neutrality it will be interesting to see if this site is available in the future.  If they are then the Nazis' will have failed.

    Thank you Pols for remaining an outpost for free thinking and no-holds barred conversations.

  7. Sorry, but I'm giving you a C+, maybe a B-: if you ask nicely:

    • Good at harpooning Republicans, their obvious stupidity, their inexcusable actions, and more.
    • Good at highlighting many, but not enough, key liberal and progressive issues.
    • Too many verbatim press releases. (This may have been your origins, your stated purpose, but the other side makes no bones about their constant partisanship and attacks. We don't have to sink to their level, but we need to acknowledge their level of gamesmanship. And oh, by the way, it's not a game.)
    • Not enough holding our side accountable for their poor politics and policy. Unwilling to make but the most superficial criticisms of Democratic officials.
    • Far too comfortable living in a purple state that can, and should, be blue.
    • Not raising a GIGANTIC FIT over the disgusting stolen Supreme Court seat.

    Carry on…………….

  8. Congratulations.

    Surviving with a consistent mission for 13 years is an accomplishment. Attracting a group of folks willing to participate in self- and other-education is a good thing. Attracting a few cranks or RWNJs is the price of free speech.

    And Zappatero — I can't think of anyone else deciding that a birthday celebration needed to be graded. Did someone appoint you as a graduate assistant? Have you developed another site to demonstrate consistent excellence? If so, will you share?

    1. Numerous letters to the editor published at The Gazette and CS Indy (not those online only bullshit pubs. PUBLISHED on dead trees with petrol based ink.)

      Quoted as ZAPPATERRO in The Nation magazine and in Ari Berman’s book on the 2008 election. 

      Numerous posts from SquareState still available on these very same internets, notably my critiques of the Daft Triangulator Mark Udall, former 850KOA host Sean Rima, who was and will always be an incredible asshole, and Heckuvajob Brownie’s Ignorant and sociopathic “we are NOT all in this together” broadcast. 

      Being a tiny thorn in the side of the Hate-filled and Supremely Mendastic Sean Paige, who was still Op-Ed Editor at The Gizzard (sick) and who had given Mike Coffman, yes, that Mike Coffman, free Op-Ed space to run his “Iraqi Freedumb” columns for almost a year, when I was doing some p.r. for the Jay Fawcett v. Dumbass Lamborn campaign that, I still contend, changed the DNA of the El Paso County electorate.

      And you?

        1. Holy sheeite! Will you ever get off that?  Mrs. Moore gave everyone three gold stars. Until she went color blind.

          And when she went off on that whole Nixon – Trilateralist conspiracy thing in 71?
          omg- just give it a rest. 

  10. I was here early though not at the beginning. Had a different user ID at first but changed it desperately when the website changed and I couldn't figure it out so I re-registered. I enjoy, or employ, Pols, every day

    Happy Birthday! Thank you!

    2. My first account was anonymous (and short-lived) before I decided to blog on the front side of the curtain. I so appreciate the long-timers here and I peek in almost every day whether I post or not.  There are many of you I still don’t know personally after all these years but I feel like we’re life-long friends at this point.

      Does anyone know what happened to Moddy’s crazy girlfriend Ruthie from the Ritter days? 

      1. And what the hell happened to Geiko? I too used to post on here under a different name back in ´06. I remember Moonraker who was rumored to be associated with the Beauprez and/or the Trailhead Group. And Lamborn Has-God-Like-Qualities?

        Yes, Ruthie was batshit crazy. I think she was Dust Puppy's counterpart in the parallel ideological universe.

  12. I first posted here when the site was known as Colorado Confidential ( unless my drug addled brain remembers incorrectly). I haven't written any diaries lately, though I intend to again pretty soon. I have retired…so to speak. No more building..just writing and music.

    There are so many experienced and insightful writers here at Pols. It is an honor to be among you.

  13. It is your birthday- you cry if you want to.

    December 2004. Would like to know more about that, someday when the ale is flowing and you feel up to it.

    What I remember about 2004 was Ken Salazar. Great guy.  I volunteered the day he announced and spent the rest of the spring going to 12th and Bannock. Met the crazy guy from the mayor's office riding his damn scooter around downtown and he was cool. But the rest of the Ds were all excited about Mike Miles and I was not even a D and wasn't from here so I was not invited to play reindeer games. 

     

    I didn't blog- I did caucus, but not in my precinct – I was an "observer."
    But blogging was not interesting so I didn't know about CoPols. 
    But then 2007, 2008, 2010.

    I remember red shoes. I remember the fake names and the weird people.
    I remember difficult posters. I remember deciding it was more important to win than to be "politically pure."  
    JO. David Sirota. farking ice holes.

    Laughing Boy who was here and left for all the right reasons.  Middle of the Road (who invented Friday Jams). Ralphie (RIP). That guy from the Beach Boys. That other guy who couldn't say in 4000 words what plenty of people couldn't say in 40 or 400.  Elected front page editors.

    The first big Washington Post link. The crowds. The platform switch. The loss /recovery/sale of user id's.  The stupid squabbles with other blogs – cause they all sucked and had three posters and no traffic.

    And somehow The Big Line has always been illogical and mostly wrong.
     

    1.  I remember LB and MOTR. And who can forget our dear friend Ralphie. And the Vicar of Verbosity was Steve Harvey, wasn't it?

      Hell we used to have sig lines and popularity contests…got too big for such nonsense, I guess. 

       

  15. I am searching my old hard drives for some leftovers from 2004.  Square State was the other Colorado blog, I used different names on each.  When I ran for office I changed all my blog names to my real name so that what I posted was attributed to me.  It had the side effect that I poked much less at the republicans.  Now my office is local so I can use my alternatives and enjoy calling SFB SFB, republicans members of the greedy old perverts.

    There used to be a lot of talk of what member number we all had, and how pissed off some were when the new software was installed and everybody got a new number.  Some going from double digits to triple digits. 

    Ah those were the days. 

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