Tomorrow I'm going to be spending more time at Defending the American Dream and hope to catch Michelle Malkin's speech at lunch. I don't always agree with Malkin, but she's consistently amusing and provocative. Somehow I also have to fit in more time at Netroots Nation on Saturday. By staying away today I missed one of the most important events, a chance to get my photo taken with Obama Girl. When there's so much going on, you just have to swallow your regrets and look for new opportunities.
The Naming of Things
Just one last note on the trivial, but irritating issue of terminology. I hate the term Netroots. It sounds like a skin disorder. Yet I have a hard time resisting the urge to apply it more universally to both the right and left sides of the online grassroots community, because no one is offering me a better term. And even if Netroots Nation is a terrible name for a conference, it does beat the hell of of Defending the American Dream Summit, which is just too hyperbolic and too complicated to be catchy, and I hate having to type it over and over. I realize that FreedomFest is already taken (another sign of how strong the liberty movement is getting), but it might be worth setting aside a room at the summit to hold a bull session on figuring out something better to call future events. I do have some ideas. Maybe I need to make giving these events and movements better names my special crusade.
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