I can’t say that the news of the inevitable death of Air America really bums me out all that much. It’s been dead to me for so long now that this really makes no difference to me. Oh, I feel bad for the people that worked there, of course. Being out of work sucks. But as for AAR itself? Meh. It’s kind of funny how the morons of the world kept continuing to insist that the evil George Soros was behind AAR and backing them financially. Too bad he was never actually involved in it, or they’d still be on the air (and probably with the original lineup – sans Senator Al Franken – that made it so good). Only an idiot would believe that, but then the wingnuts have no shortage of idiots. Air America’s big problem was that the guy who was supposedly backing it financially (Evan Cohen) turned out to be a fraud, and then the guy they brought in to save the network (consummate asshole Danny Goldberg) turned out to be a humorless chump with no vision (and no radio background), who took evrything that was good and killed it. Right before things were about to really take off, too. And things only went downhill from there. Oh, but there was an awful lot of potential there at the beginning – back on April Fool’s Day, 2004. If I mourn anything today, it’s that Air America, not the thing that it had become. And there’s always Sedition Radio for when I miss the old days (at least until the computer it’s running on craps out, or I get sick of dealing with it). It’s funny, though. There’s always at least a couple of people tuned in, and when the stream craps out, I hear about it in a hurry. Hard to believe Sedition Radio and this place have both outlived Air America. Never underestimate the power of a handful of stubborn bastids, I guess.