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The Blog Name Change.
We, “The Blog formerly known as the Chapin Nation,” will henceforth be called “The Daily Cause.”

So shall it be written, so shall it be done.

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords…
Here is an unofficial transcript of a brief dialogue between Bernard Chapin and me–two of the “Cause Kids”:

Me: Sounds like a gratuitously cheap stunt to boost our blog’s traffic. In other words a really good idea. When I was at my mum’s I had to read the newspaper since she doesn’t have a computer. Markos “Screw ‘Em” Zuniga had the full front page of the business section. I guess he makes a ton o’ bucks off his blog.
BC: That’s the point; by blatantly ripping off The Kos we too shall have enough hits to sell blog ads, eventually fulfilling my dream of drinking champagne from the stiletto heeled pumps of supermodels sunning on the deck of my beachfront home in Belize.
Me: I thought you hated California.
BC: Um, did I mention we were thumbing our noses at the left?
Me: I guess that’s the—not so subtle—point. How did you come up with such a hair brained, er… I mean brilliant idea?
BC: The same way I get all my brilliant ideas.
Me: The voices again?
BC: You betcha!
Me: How are the treatments going?
BC: Doc says I can cut down on my meds. Anyway, this means we’ll have to start reading his blog, researching topics, and presenting our counter arguments in our usual well thought-out, insightful, cogent fashion.
Me: I was thinkin’ we could just make stuff up like we usually do.
BC: That’ll work too.
Me: OT, but did you hear about the Senate deal the Fantastic Fourteen made? Something about an “Oral Agreement.”
BC: No, but I’ll bet it involved kneepads.
Me: Actually, I think it has more to do with the Democrats promising not to filibuster judicial nominees except in “extraordinary circumstances.”
BC: Like Christian zealots who want to overturn Roe v Wade and ban gay marriage?
Me: That, or just anyone Bush nominates.
BC: Hey, I just had a great idea, I could make a big sign with our new blog name on it and run around Chicago in my pajamas waving it around–now THAT would increase our traffic!
Me:
BC:
Me: The voices again?
BC: Yup.