I've mentioned this a couple of times before but Ralph Nader is the inspiration behind Outrage.com. I was coming home from work - taking the train with a coworker sometime in early 2001. I was still outraged over the fact that Ralph Nader had decided to be the spoiler for the November election. And I talked out a plan for a website devoted to giving people a chance to air whatever it is they were outraged about. I obviously was unaware of blogs at the time. Better late than never.

I had listened to Nader, agreed with a lot of what he had to say -- but when he chose to hang on even after failing to muster the required five percent, I heard a different message. And regardless of what the revisionist historians say, Nader's name on the ballot put George Bush in the White House. And for that, Ralph deserves to be the outcast he's become. I loved his whine about no one invites me to testify any more.

Ralph - a few words of advice concerning Campaign 2004: don't do it.