Truthout is left wing? *chuckles* Yup and so am I. Not so far left that I'd call myself a socialist but definitely left of center.
Tin foil hat? I dunno about that, wasn't the stink about something Jason Leopold published concerning Rove and the Plame incident? He jumped the gun and was dead wrong and took a lot of heat for it. Still, they have a good collection of some of my favorite writers(like Englehardt) and a list of headlines often of interest to me. I s'pose I shoulda linked it to Tomdispatch but was too lazy to go there for the link.
Unlike some of you I don't have a television and get my news entirely from the internet, I may visit some news sites this forum doesn't approve of and I apologize for that, I wont link to that site again. I like you guys a lot, I like how you think and how you write, the discourse is civil and intelligent, Doug is one of the best ranters I know of whether I agree with him or not on a given issue. I haven't been around here long enough to know the secret handshake and stuff but I expect you'll be hearing my oppinions for a long time whether they be worth anything or not.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...