This began in a moment of fiery ambition wrought by the Dean campaign circa late fall 2003. Now that history has consigned the good doctor to its dustbin, we now lack a certain something called 'purpose.' At least Dean had the good sense to midwife - dialectically, of course - a new breed of progressive politics out of the barren waste of the DLC and its pet consultantocracy. [I get a dollar for every ugly new word from the crawfishing sugar daddies at Merriam-Webster; thanks, Jim!] Where to go now?