Things have calmed down quite a bit since those glorious days leading up to the Iraq war, when being a liberal and suggesting that our Glorious Adventure In Iraq was maybe not such a good idea was equivalent to declaring your allegiance to Stalin, but those days were quite scary and I certainly think I had good reason for running this blog anonymously with a pseudonym at that time. We were all ready to be Dixie Chicked.
But it's still the case that some people have more power than others dontchaknow.