Scattered thoughts from an outsider who may be coming in from the cold.
First off, though: yeah, I was here early enough that I bagged the user name "joseph" so neener to all you other josephs.
But more importantly, I haven't been to this site much in the past three years, maybe once or twice. But I clicked on it in the runup to the Iowa caucus (I'm in California and still don't know who I'm supporting) and I have to say---I wish I could say it without sounding caustic, but I probably can't---it appears to me that the site has matured a great deal since I've been here. I'm glad for that. Be caustic back to me if you like.