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In reply to the discussion: DU Class of 2001, Check In! [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)after struggling like a madwoman during the Clinton-era with a bunch of rightwingers at an innocuous message board (Mediadomain) that turned exceedingly bitter (and political) during Primary Season for the Election of 2000. Several of us from that site came here after Skinner opened for business to glean juicy articles and pertinent thoughts and then haul them back over to our soap opera board to watch the wingnuts heads explode.
I originally joined as "moe" (same as I was on Michael Gill's site) but family illnesses, deaths, took me back to the boonies of Ohio, away from any computer access and I eventually had to rejoin here under my current moniker after my return to wa.
DU was an amazing place back then, an amazing source of excellent information!