ConservaFool blog turns 4

Remember the Conservative Fool Of The Day blog?

This great project beginned on Blog-City on April 1, 2005 - April Fools' Day, to you and me. It lasted until 2007, when Blog-City announced it was becoming a pay service. (Seen any blogs on Blog-City since it went pay? Didn't think so.) It was known as ConservaFools for short.

On almost every weekday, that blog exposed not only right-wing lawbreaking and graft, but also every bigoted remark, public temper tantrum, or stupid idea a right-winger might generate. We profiled politicians, commentators, entertainment celebs, and everyday rightist clods.

One entry profiled a GOP patronage employee in Kentucky who refused to answer phones because he considered it beneath him. Another dealt with a congressman who wasted a government grant on an investigation into Goth culture. Inductees were usually limited to just one entry, but I'm pretty sure that exceptions were made for Ann Coulter and Geoff Davis.

The first person profiled on the ConservaFools blog? I'll give you a hint: His initials were G.W.B. The era in which the blog ran featured some of the most colorful right-wing meltdowns in recent memory.

I and the other participants of that now-defunct blog are proud to say that the Far Right endured heaps of much-deserved ridicule at our hands.

Long live the Conservative Fool Of The Day blog! Like it's a big ol' Kentucky highway marker!