Logo...

I wasn't being snide in my praise of the Stim logo!

I truly consider it brilliant, very attractive, good design -- conjoining green and sci-tech progressivism to patriotism and a nice big conspicuous "gov."

In pushing always to the next pragmatic problem at hand, Dems have had a bit of a bad habit of forgetting to return to the basics, in my view... neglecting to slow down occasionally [one] to remind citizens of, for example, the indispensability of government so that inevitable instances of bad governance are the occasions for calls to better governance rather than excuses for reactionary anti-government rhetoric, forgetting [two] to remind citizens of the many ways in which their lives are made better by the things working accountable governance provides and in so failing creating the conditions under which these fragile accomplishments come to be taken for granted by their proper beneficiaries and hence more vulnerable to looting by the rich and powerful and connected, forgetting [three] to warn the people that when government is of, by, and for the people attacks on government are attacks on the people, whatever their faux-populist cadences.

The logo is an enormously encouraging sign if you ask me -- one among many -- that progressives at the National level (too many California Dems still seem caught up in these bad habits, btw, and ruinously so), or at any rate in the Obama Administration, have learned key lessons from the catastrophic era of Movement Conservatism at home, and neoliberalism everywhere.