Maryscott O'Connor, my sister in blogging

MaryScott O'Connor had a relatively good profile done about her at The Left, Online and Outraged. I say relatively because, for such a beautiful woman, the picture they chose to run makes her look totally hideous.

We met online through DailyKos and face to face during last years's Washington DC United for Peace and Justice march. We spent some quality time while marching and bunking in her hotel room (she has a cute little snore I've blogged about somewhere at DailyKos).

Maryscott, like many of us in the left blogosphere, does this not out of looking for a job as a political consultant or becausse she want to get rich and famous doing punditry online. As I have said before, to fastest way to get rich and famous online is to do pornography.

No, she and I an many others do this because we are optimists. People sometimes don't get that under Maryscott's rants, Rude Pundit's profanities, Jesus General's sarcasm and this here blogger's blunt political pronouncements against people both on the left and right, lie the likes of dreamers who wake up in the morning eager to find something that will give us another reason and another day to believe in the goodness of Humanity. I think this is what is lost in the Washington Post article.

Still, I am glad my blog sister is there. She deserves it. Nobody does outrage and gets results like Maryscott O'Connor.

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O'Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.

Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O'Connor's reputation is as one of the angriest of all. "One long, sustained scream" is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.

She smokes a cigarette. Should it be about Bush, whom she considers "malevolent," a "sociopath" and "the Antichrist"? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as "Satan," or about Karl Rove, "the devil"? Should it be about the "evil" Republican Party, or the "weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving" Democrats, or the Catholic Church, for which she says "I have a special place in my heart . . . a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned"?

Darfur, she finally decides.

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