Is there a DUer who just disappeared that you miss?

[Awsi Dooger]

409. Sorry to hear about Dookus

I haven't been here in quite a while and hadn't heard about his death. Very sad. He couldn't have been too old.

Maybe a decade ago I was in a sarcastic little spat with Dookus. I can't remember the topic but we were having a good time. Lots of off the wall zig zag responses, eventually veering quite far from the original topic. For some reason I assumed Dookus was a girl. I remember backing off in that thread, not wanting to get too abusive with a woman, even if obviously none of it was serious.

Then a few days later I saw someone refer to Dookus as a he. I felt like an idiot.

Anyway, regarding the theme of the thread, in my early months on this site I appreciated Dolstein. He had a good balanced view of the party and the prospects of certain candidates. He insisted that Kerry simply wasn't special enough and would fall short. It wasn't popular to agree, and Dolstein suffered plenty of critics, but I respected his perspective.

Dolstein and Carlos Jiacinto would often counter TruthIsAll in some of the conspiracy threads and 99.99% certainty threads. Later that task fell upon febble and OnTheOtherHand in the original Election Reform forum. I have no idea if any of them still post here but they deserve mention.

Jiacinto went on tilt and was banished. He surfaced at DailyKos, at least for a couple of years. I've been out of the loop and lack updates. But Jiacinto was very helpful in my early months on this site. I'd post numbers related analysis and he pointed me to some relevant books, ones I still have.