Welcome to the newly re–designed and relocated Balloon Juice. I want to first thank Kathy Kinsley and MommaBear, who spent an ungodly amount of time getting this thing up and running. Kathy handled the transition and the design, while Momma Bear handled the graphics. ABig thanks to Rev. Markle and Rev. Chapin, who set up the server for me.
In other words, I am a bleeding idiot who doesn’t know how to put anything together, and I was lucky enough to have these decent people to help me.
If you find a bug or a problem, please note it in the comments below. Also, I intend to re-work the links to the left, and if you are not there and should be or if your link is not working or is outdated, please let me know so I can fix it.
If you use buttons for links, here is one:
Thanks, and Welcome.
Oscar Jr.
Congratulations on the re-opening. The new site looks great (but the links are on the right, now). I look forward to visiting.
Jennie Taliaferro
Love the new place, John!
Just in time for the Iraq attack, too.
Good one.
Bill Quick
Great new look, John! I’ll blog the move and change my blogroll tonight.
John Cole
Thanks. All the credit for the re-design goes to Kathy Kinsely. I told her what I wanted, and she did it all.
Neal
Nice place you got here, John. Now that you have comments, any bets on how long till your “pals” over at Matthew Yglesias and the Daily Kos drop by to say hello?
John Cole
Who knows? I have found that whenever many of them talk, they do more to discredit themselves than anything I could do. There are, however, some decent people at Kos. Most of the really bad trolls are at Atrios’s site. Regardless, the most odious of them refuse to even come here because my ‘right wingness’ so disturbs them. If they do come here it will be to selectively quote something I have taken so that they make use it out of context to call me a racist.
George Peery
Really nice site. I’m grateful to the indispensible susanna cornett for pointing it out.
TalkLeft
We like the new site too. We just found you today because you mentioned us and some of your readers have come over to read us. You may be right-wing on many issues, but it seems you oppose the drug war. So do we. We hope we can be friends sometimes and cordial adversaries on those other occasions.