Progressive Wednesday

Back, baby. As in: “We are…”

February 2nd, 2008 by Progressive Wednesday

Hey folks, please allow us to be the first to wish you all a happy Groundhog’s Day! (Note the requisite groundhog photo.) We’re sorry for the long hiatus, but thanks for sticking around and being so patient: it seems like a progressive quality to us. We’d go into all the hullabaloos, brouhahas, and general “schtuff” that’s gone on for the past couple of months, but we’re rather just get back to business.

So welcome back, yo, just in time for our one-year anniversary.

And here’s a note or two on format. Henceforth (man, I’m not sure I’ve ever written the word “henceforth” and now I’ve written it twice), we’ll be featuring posts about progressive news, actions, organizations, photography, and other art Monday through Friday. We’ll take Saturdays off because we like to stay up late on Friday nights, and we’ll take Sunday off because we’ll still be recovering from Friday. As in the past, Wednesdays will still be Wednesdays, and we’ll offer up about a trio of actions each week on one topic or theme.

You might notice that we’re now featuring ads on our site. We hemmed and hawed, but it was a necessary decision in order to keep paying the bills associated with maintaining your favorite site on the Web (it’s world wide, by the way). Please note that we have little control over what kinds of ads will run, and we’ll take a page from the magazine The Nation to explain our position a bit further:

We accept [advertising] not to further the views of The Nation but to help pay the costs of publishing. We start, therefore, with the presumption that we will accept advertising even if the views expressed are repugnant to those of the editors. The only limits are those that grow out of our interest in assuring that the advertising does not impede our use of the editorial columns of The Nation to say what we want.

Blatantly misleading ads, or ads purveying harmful products, will fall into a gray area of discretion, but as a general principle, we assume that our readers will have sufficient knowledge to judge for themselves the merits of commonly known products (such as cigarettes).

(You can read the whole enchalada by clicking this sentence.)

I’m sure there’s something we’re forgetting, but we’ll get to it eventually. In the meantime, enjoy your Saturday, enjoy your Sunday, and meet us back here come Monday. It’s good to be back.

Peace,

Eric and Matt

Picture clicked by this friend of marmots.