Since we're talking about DU's upcoming 10-year anniversary...

[WilliamPitt]

...allow me to take you on a trip down memory lane.

May 22, 2001. The very first article of mine ever published on DU.

It'll take you back. Sure took me back.



http://upload.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/05/22_march.html

[Parche]

1. what??

it wasnt an article on smoking???

:rofl::rofl::rofl::hi:

good one!!!

[meegbear]

2. Is that matcom?

[WilliamPitt]

4. Nope

But the guy behind him (looking down) is me.

[trumad]

25. You have hair.

[WilliamPitt]

27. Things change, things stay the same

New Year's 2010-2011

:)

[trumad]

31. Woooo...how much did that cost?

;-)

[Buzz Clik]

3. DU 2001.

When the D stood for Democratic rather than Dogma.

[WilliamPitt]

...or Derp.

[Joe Fields]

8. fuck derp....

ain't gonna happen...

[JanMichael]

5. Do you still have the photos from the first meetup in Philly?

or Boston? I can't remember....I wish we could see the ones from that first Atlanta meeting too....NYYawker was there...

[WilliamPitt]

6. Somewhere, yeah.

Most of that stuff is in boxes in the basement. LynneSin has the Philly ones, I'm sure of it.

[GalleryGod]

10. Trying to get her to put them on her FB Album.

We'll see...sigh.:toast:

[WilliamPitt]

21. I'll bug her

[WilliamPitt]

22. My attempt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9591051

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Wow, Will...

Talk about the way back machine...

Just gut-wrenching. Plainly gut-wrenching.

And the un-reccers are busy at it today.

I did recommend your very fine writing.

Thank you...So. Much.

[hlthe2b]

12. What possible reason would DUers have to unrec?

Can lurking Freepers unrec?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Only members can unrec, or rec.

I have NO Idea why anyone would stoop to unrec any of Will's threads...

[intheflow]

16. Freepers can pay their $10 to rec or unrec,

Same as the rest of us. Unless, of course, their mom's won't lend them the money.

[WilliamPitt]

13. It wasn't very fine writing

But thank you anyway. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. I thought it was, so there!

You do write more strongly, more lucidly these days, however...

You're welcome.

:D

[hlthe2b]

9. Makes one wish they could follow up with Laura and Adam...and

all the others who had so passionately tried to correct the wrongs of the past decade. I hope, like you, Will, they remain engaged and active.

Thanks for posting this. Time has not healed that wound, but the company of the like-minded has made it easier to accept.

[GalleryGod]

11. Now THERE is an article- The Follow-Up...

:headbang:

[sinkingfeeling]

17. One quote there says it all...

"We've lost our entire government to a corporate oligarchy that now governs us without our permission."

[WilliamPitt]

18. My personal favorite:

"I was reminded of an interview I had seen on television once. A musician was talking about the first Velvet Underground album ever released. The album sold only about 2,000 copies, this musician said, but everyone who bought it went out and started a band. I think this Voter Rights March will have the same effect."

Every once in a while I get it right.

[Major Hogwash]

19. That's a pretty good article. I like it.

I especially like the ending with the cab driver knowing how bad Bush was going to be, before he even got started at being bad.

[Joe Fields]

20. Sometimes the cure IS worse than the disease. Viva Capt. Morgan!!...

[WilliamPitt]

23. I prefer

...but to each his/her own.

:toast:

[pacalo]

24. I sure wish I'd known about DU back then. I was so outraged

& at a rinky-dink message board designed for a certain reality show, but a political forum was created there after the election. After the nation became more & more divided, there were more posters there for Bush than not, & the owner buckled to their complaints & shut down the politics board. That eventually led me here. :)

I would have been in heaven reading posts like yours, Will!

:hi:

[WilliamPitt]

26. Thanks.

:hug:

[annabanana]

28. I wish I had found DU earlier. When you folks were whipping up

the net's best message board, I was beside myself, wondering what had happened to my Country. Where the hell were all the hippies gone?

[WilliamPitt]

30. I've been reading you here

since the day you arrived.

Don't stop.

:hug:

[WilliamPitt]

29. Derp.