( – promoted by Jack McCullough)

The big blogger summit happened Saturday night at the Euro Cafe on Main Street in Burlington. It was great to meet many of the writers, some of them colleagues here at GMD, whom I had only encountered electronically. Conversation ranged pretty widely, from the expected: Clinton, Obama, and the 2008 Democratic ticket; to the mundane: TV shows, vasectomies, and how to resolve husband-wife disagreements; to the mind-numbingly technical: peer-to-peer bit torrent technology, for instance.

Some of Vermont’s alt-media stars were there: Philip Baruth, Peter Freyne, Cathy Resmer, along with a gaggle of lesser-known but committed bloggers.

Philip writes a better story about what happened than I could, but I’ll share some of the pictures I took.

This just in: Scooter Libby has been convicted of four of the five counts against him. Two counts of perjury, one count of lying to a federal officer, and one count of obstruction of justice for lying to the grand jury.

UPDATE:  A jury speaking to the press says that frequently during their deliberations the jury members were asking each other, “What are we doing to this guy? Where’s Rove?” He specifically says that they thought Libby was the fall guy.

I’ve been following this story with increasing interest since Josh started running it a few weeks ago. Today is one of the chances for this story to come to a head, with the purged U.S. Attorneys testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee. You can watch it streaming here: http://www.cspan.org…

One thing that I was struck by, based on what I’ve seen so far, is that Spector seems to be trying to limit the import of the testimony, constantly trying to pin the witnesses down to say that they don’t know for a fact that they were fired for political reasons. Since he was supposedly miffed at the insertion of language that allows the president to appoint U.S. Attorneys without Senate confirmation, you might think he would be a little better on this issue.

Imagine my deep disappointment yesterday morning when, as I do every morning during my 40 minute commute, I tuned into WTWK 1070 AM to listen to the latest progressive news on the Young Turks. And instead of Cenk, Ben and that vacuous what’s her name, I find that the entire Air America schedule had been replaced by the radio version of the We channel.

Yes, it’s true. Air America has been replaced with Eve 1070: Talk Radio Evolved. So, instead of the Young Turks, I got the Radio Ritas. And on my way home, there’s Women Aloud instead of my girl Randi Rhodes — a loud woman to be sure, but still not the same thing.

Not that there’s anything wrong with women’s programming. And it’s probably a good thing that the old 1070 was put out of its misery. Not only was virtually every transition botched, but I started coming up with my own lyrics for the extended pop song instrumentals that took the place of what should have been local advertising.

But, I’m a political junkie, dammit! And I need my fix! For there to be an Air America station in Brattleboro, and not in Burlington, is wrong man. Just plain wrong.

I don’t believe there’s not a market for progressive radio programming in northern Vermont. It just needs to have a good business strategy. Anybody want to line up some investors? I’ll pitch in 5 bucks as some seed capital. Who else is with me?

Today’s Town Meeting Day, so go to Exit Voices and join in the discussion.

And from Candleblog‘s Bill Simmon, here’s what it’s all about…

Welcome to Exit Voices! Town Meeting Day is here! Please use the comments section of this post to discuss what’s happening in your town. Are you attending a town meeting? Are you going to the polls to vote? What are the issues that concern you?

If you are new to Exit Voices, be sure to look around and read some of our guest posts and watch some video posts. Let us know what you think in the comments sections. We will be continuing to put up new content through Wednesday, so keep checking in.

This post will remain at the top of the page, even as new content is added, so make sure you look below this post for new additions.

Now go get your democracy on!

The word from a friend in Rochester, VT:

Rochester’s town meeting voted 57-53 in favor of impeachment.  A motion to pass over the article had been made and rejected, followed by short discussion and then the vote.

Also, Westminster passed it, 107-29.
It was tabled in Stamford, and wasn’t brought up for a vote in Rupert. More to follow…