I've lurked there for years, precisely as an antidote to my own bubble. Probably in part because of Jessamyn's presence, it was a good proxy for well-educated,

I've lurked there for years, precisely as an antidote to my own bubble. Probably in part because of Jessamyn's presence, it was a good proxy for well-educated, New England-style liberalism, with a sprinkle of granola. The Steven & Elyse Keatons as foil to my inner Alex P. Keaton. It's still mostly witty, funny, gen-x zeitgeist. There's great wordplay. The last couple of years, however, it has had an undercurrent of seething anger. There's such deep faith in really liberal social, economic, and political policies, and an increasingly narrow orthodoxy. I don't think Bill Clinton-era democrats would make it very on long on the blue these days. Hit the wrong note, and it quickly turns to Elyse toting up her unpaid emotional labor, and Steven going from NPR to Chapo Trap House, and Mallory joining the Middlebury Antifa to beat up Charles Murray. Similar bad things have happened on the right, of course. Kids become Milo, not Alex. But it makes me sad to see the two sides drifting. It's hard to shake the bad feeling about the future.