It's tempting, you have something you just desperately want people to know, because YOU have just found it. A little nugget of information of great importance.
And there isn't any time to check whether it's already up in another diary, or maybe even on the FP. You've got to get the news out now, you're Pheidippides carrying the news of The Battle of Marathon to Athens, and you're flying.
Or did some news just BREAK? On the teevee, or online newspapers? Just how BROKEN is that piece of news, you might ask, before writing it up in a "diary."
Maybe you just logged on, after a nice weekend up at the cabin, and you come across the absolutely devastating fact that the GOP is trying to suppress votes in (wherever they can) -- and you have got to share this with the community. Which has been discussing that particular instance since Friday.
You could be excused - the Search here isn't always perfect. But while our brains aren't perfect, either, they can be used for a little reflection, such as: what's the point of DailyKos?
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