This diary series may be the most self-indulgent thing I've ever seen on this site, so I'm starting it at a quiet hour and asking that people do not recommend it. (I mean it. I don't want to spawn imitators.) Note that I'll soon be traveling, possibly without computer access, so my year here is over and I choose to mark it in this way.
When posters have complained about a lack of reader response, about never making the Rec List, and so on, I've sometimes suggested that they take the word "diary" literally. A traditional diary may one day be published, or may serve as grist for a memoir, but it is foremost written for ourselves, to memorialize our own thoughts. (We just happen to do so out here in the open.) If we're lucky and so disposed, a diary may also change others' thinking and perhaps the world. Regardless, it has value in its being written and being ours.
And so: here is part 1 of an easy-to-read annotated list, from latest to earliest (in proper blog form), of every diary I have written here at Daily Kos as Major Danby. Thanks to Markos, the CEs, and my friends and readers for helping me generate, publish, refine, defend, and now compile the work described below. Without you, there would have been nothing.
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