Humm,
Life as a sea cucumber might not be all that bad; I guess it just depends on one’s perspective. Truthdig actually HAS been my favorite political website for the past 3 years, and it seems that I’ve voted at least twice before.
There ARE still some excellent columnists, most of who are pretty much balanced and on target, at least the majority of the time.
But then we’ve got people like Chris Hedges, who I started out really enjoying/appreciating, and reading a lot of his stuff back in my years of hard core academia concerning the ‘war on terror’ and all that has resulted from it. But the guy is in some sort of meltdown, and his consistent negativity doesn’t help the collective social psychology either. Maybe he should just stick to the politics of the Middle East, and the US influence/meddling there. Or even the politics of Theology, since he’s well trained there as well. But on US politics, he can’t and hasn’t told us anything we don’t already know, and his political judgment is very poor. Not exactly a ‘team player’ or anyone interested in the overall/collective benefit of the US society. At least it doesn’t seem that way. Shallow vision prevents people from seeing things from multiple perspectives.
Then there was all of the trifle from Miss Marie Cocco in the Hillary v. Obama drama that she became the epitome of a Faux Fox News reporter. Jesus Christ!!  Talk about super-biased/agendized!! Aren’t reporters and columnists reasonably expected to make at least a STAB at neutrality?
There’s also a serious problem with the fact that this site is almost totally unmonitored. Initially, when I first started reading and posting here, it didn’t seem so bad. There weren’t that many crazies and posters weren’t high jacking threads on one topic, to pursue their individual ideological agenda’s.
We have some really destructive dialogue going on now, on a routine (as in daily) basis, that are racist, (overtly or otherwise) and in other cases, just very obvious right-wing trolls. I don’t expect Truthdig or any other site to practice some sort of authoritarian censorship, but there’s a problem with the dialogue in this country as it is, and any attempts to repair or improve our collective social experience are doomed when people like that are allowed to post destructive rhetoric and IED’s, (Insinuations, Exaggerations, and Distortions) by twisting and or totally falsifying the facts. Propaganda is damaging, in case ya’ll hadn’t noticed over the past several years. It can terrorize an entire society, and that’s exactly what’s happened to us.
So, I don’t know this time. I’m kind of with rykyred this time around:

“WykydRed, April 28 at 8:36 am
Ever since this went up, I’ve been thinking long and hard. Usually, I hit the link, head over there and put in a vote for Truthdig. You DO publish good things. You DO publish articles that the competition doesn’t want anyone to see. And, despite a clear lean in one direction, it’s always a good read and deserves awards.”

Except to tell you the truth, I don’t see a clear lean in one direction, at least not from the columnists or those who post here. There WAS a liberal lean initially, which was the only reason I so appreciated it. If I wanted to hear/read from rabid right-wingers, there’s damn sure enough of that already on the internet to put millions into a state of clinical insanity, if that’s what they like to read and write. But TD is ADVERTISED as a liberal political website, and so that’s what I expect it to be.  Too many bigots weighing in here obviously change THAT dynamic. Bigots don’t HAVE ‘liberal’ ideologies.
So, we’ll see. I’ll think on it a bit more. I do like the site, but I actually prefer Truthout.org. They don’t have a set up that allows one to know when another person has posted though, (like via email) so that makes it less convenient.

I have tried to sign up to vote for several days and still get an error message. Wonder if this is happening to anyone else. I use Safari. Maybe they are dependent upon Microsoft or something? Please fix so I can vote.

OK I voted for Truthdig too.  Of course, as a typical site, Webby wants you to “register” - like most sites, they want to capture you and all your ‘Net information.  Even “voting” is not free.  (I wonder what that clause in tiny print meant about surrendering a first-born child and a sack of wax lips.) 
    I hope Karma means I will either get a new contract gig or a bump up in my unemployment check.

Ever since this went up, I’ve been thinking long and hard. Usually, I hit the link, head over there and put in a vote for Truthdig. You DO publish good things. You DO publish articles that the competition doesn’t want anyone to see. And, despite a clear lean in one direction, it’s always a good read and deserves awards.

However, it’s the agenda I don’t like, and yes, I’m referring to smoking. Only the rabidly anti-smoking articles (usually by Ms. Coco) are allowed. Despite all the articles elsewhere by Dr. Speigel (who left ASH because they twisted his smoking and second-hand smoke so far away from the truth to force their own agenda down our throats) as well as all the horror stories of smokers being denied their smallest rights in their own homes, not one of them depicting the atrocities going on in America and Britain has been published here. Neither have the articles whose information proves they have lost the battle as the smoking rate has already surpassed what it was before the ASHklan got involved. Yours is only one of many sites cheering on atrocity performed on people you have decided aren’t worth defending, protecting or giving a voice to except in the comments sections. So, as one of the aggrieved who can’t understand your anti-Constitutional stance, let alone how you seem to take such joy in the “new niggers” everyone feels free to harm, I am choosing to not vote or support the site in anything that will give it more prestige than it already has.

I know there are many smokers on here who are frustrated for the same reasons. Well, “e-cigs” are here and it’s time to do something about our status. I don’t want any votes or need any promotion. But, I will be linking Truthdig as I want as many people as possible to see Mr. Coco’s open hatred of her despised population she’s trying so very hard to kill off, even if it means they are actually killed.

Stop by, read up, give us suggestions, stories, articles, links, whatever. And have some fun! When it comes to what people write for the site or say in comments, it’s no holes barred! I believe in the rights contained in the Constitution, so say what you want! But don’t expect to be published if you’re an ASHklanner. You have free speech everywhere. We don’t.

Vaper Trails - everyone but the bigoted welcome!

I voted, send my retention bonus to my PO Box in the town by the sugar mill.  TNX and Aloha.

Hope my vote put Truthdig over the top.

Best blog and posters around.

Well deserved…

Nannie