"The insightful and widely applauded "Popular Views" threads, concatenating some of the best public commentary on a range of political personalities and issues, are the brainchild of an obscure Himalayan Bigfoot in exile who goes by the name of "Amos" No-one knows much about him, aside from the fact that he spent twenty years attaining enlightenment in a remote Nepaesel monastery, and was the original model after whom the popular ballads "John Henry", "The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven", "He Came From His Castle So Grand", "Billy Budd, Foretopman", ""The Highwayman", "Ghost Riders in the Sky", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett:", and more recently "I'm Just a Lonely Boy" were written. THe threads have begun a groundswell of acclaim from bloggers all over Western civilization, and in the United States are responsible for a remarkable backlash against hypocrisy, newspeak, corruption, and political dishonesty. So great is the emotional fervor of this wave that it is likely to guarantee a win for Barack Obama in the forthcoming American elections. (...) " (NYT)