Happy Birthday Desmoinesdem

Desmoinesdem is one of the editors and lead writers at Bleeding Heartland. If I want to get the scoop or leads to other scoops about Iowa politics, BHL is the first place I visit. She wrote an outstanding series that was published at MyDD and Daily Kos about the caucus system and how it works.

BW readers probably have noticed that BHL is on the blogroll.

I wouldn't have known it was DMD's birthday except she penned a post at the Daily Kos about turning 40 today, and she listed 40 bloggers over 40 that she enjoys reading. Benny's World made her list, and I am honored to be on it, especially as most of the bloggers she listed are ones I also admire.

Happy Birthday to great blogger and former JRE supporter, Desmoinesdem.



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Man or Woman Blogger?

Yesterday, I was lurking at Progressive Blue and in particular, I read Desmoinesdem's diary about Gender Analyzer with great interest. Gender Analyzer is a website that with some algorithms is supposed to tell you the gender of the main blogger of a blog.

I decided to put Benny's World in the box. This was my result:

We think http://bennycat.blogspot.com is written by a man (73%).

If you read other results for as Iddybudjournal and Lefty Lane, GA also says that they are written by men.

I decided to put in Chancelucky's addy and this is the result I got:

We guess http://chancelucky.blogspot.com is written by a woman (59%), however it's quite gender neutral.

Chancelucky should be proud. The blog gets put into the SNL category of "Pat".

Looks like the AI experts at Gender Analyzer have some tweaking to do.

Avg Joe is Right About McSame

And I know Joe Biden wouldn't wish to do this, but he feels compelled to speak out.

(h/t to Desmoinesdem at Bleeding Heartland)