Dear, Faithful Readers

i feel bad when i see how many of you visit, eager for some new tidbit of wit and wisdom, or some gutsplittingly hilarious ridiculosity of the week. i feel bad that i haven't finished the migration from blogspot to our own domain. i feel bad that i've only changed one font in the new design since last week. a dark curtain has fallen over WfD. the garden of muses is a bone-dry desert, the perfect backdrop to a clint eastwood movie about manliness and big guns.

i am currently recovering from a brush with a political cult operating out of roxbury. remember that great volunteer experience i was so excited about? it turned out to be a front for a 30-year-old marxist political cult. i know i should have known something was up when they said they refused to have an internet presence. anyway, i'm deep in the middle of research on the history of this group. needless to say, this has left me more than a little shaken. more details will follow. i'd also like to hear about the experiences of anyone who is a former member of the National Labor Federation, aka NATLFED, or any of its front organizations. email me at natlfed.project@gmail.com.

just to put everyone at ease, i've cut ties with the organization. i called and declined to 'volunteer' for them any longer. the whole experience has been unnerving to say the least. there are several colleges in the area who give credit to their students for working with the organization in roxbury, and my local grocery coop allows them to set up tables there to solicit for volunteers and donations. i want to gather enough credible evidence so that i can convince the colleges and the grocery coop to withdraw their support from it.

the horrible thing about all of this? despite the fraud and basic dishonesty, this organization actually performs valuable social services for their low-income membership base. their organizational model is actually effective and self-sustaining. even so, i think they funnel the cash donations back to the parent organization, which i find ethically and morally repugnant.