* 1991 – Markos Moulitsas, while in the Army

" Moulitsas has described the Army as " perhaps the ideal society – we worked hard but the Army took care of us in return.

Moulitsas also noted that he has endorsed several victorious candidates in upsets, including Howard Dean for chair of the DNC, Jon Tester in the 2006 Democratic U. S. Senatorial primary in Montana, Jim Webb in the 2006 Democratic U. S. Senatorial primary in Virginia, and Ned Lamont in the 2006 U. S. Senatorial primary in Connecticut.

Markos Moulitsas, who runs the liberal Daily Kos website, told reporters in August 2007 that he does not read conservative blogs, with the exception of those on NRO: " I do like the blogs at the National Review — I do think their writers are the best in the blogosphere ," he said.

Moulitsas currently resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.

Moulitsas attended the California State Democratic convention in Sacramento in March, 2003 with Jerome Armstrong of MyDD.

His victory was partially credited to grassroots activism, and the support from the blogosphere, with Moulitsas in particular.

In addition to political pursuits, Moulitsas, along with Tyler Bleszinski ( of Athletics Nation ), is a cofounder of SB Nation, a network of sports blogs.

* C-SPAN Q & A interview with Moulitsas, April 10, 2005

In a December 2005 interview with Newsweek magazine, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of Daily Kos, described the netroots as " the crazy political junkies that hang out in blogs.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (; born September 11, 1971 ), often known by his username and former military nickname " Kos " ( kōz ), is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States.

Moulitsas is also a regular contributor to Newsweek, having been hired by the magazine for its 2008 presidential campaign coverage.

Moulitsas is a fellow at the New Politics Institute, a think tank of the New Democrat Network, which was founded by Simon Rosenberg in 1996.

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Democratic blog Daily Kos, argues that by calling old media mainstream, new media is inherently marginalized, and thus prefers to use the term " traditional media " instead.

More recently, in 2006, Markos Moulitsas proposed the term libertarian Democrat to describe his liberal particular position, suggesting that libertarians should be allies of the Democratic Party.

Moulitsas was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Salvadorian mother and Greek father.

Prior to enlisting in the Army, Moulitsas was a member of the Republican Party.

However, during his time in the military Moulitsas began a transition in his political philosophy that would lead him to change his party affiliation from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

After graduating from law school, Moulitsas moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a project manager at a web development shop.

Moulitsas responded directly to the " strike " by saying that it was more like a " boycott ", noting that " It's a big Internet, so I hope they find what they're looking for.

Prior to the 2006 elections, Moulitsas endorsed several candidates who rarely won races.

In a post to his website, Moulitsas wrote that he prefers not to be given credit for such things, because it understates the efforts of grassroots contributors.

During the United Kingdom general election in 2005, Moulitsas was hired by the British daily newspaper The Guardian to write elections analysis for its weblog.

He does not appear to have a job, and is described as having private means, although he describes himself as " a traveling salesman in wines and spirits.

Alcaeus himself seems to underscore the difference between his own ' down-to-earth ' style and Sappho's more ' celestial ' qualities when he describes her almost as a goddess ( as cited above ), and yet it has been argued that both poets were concerned with a balance between the divine and the profane, each emphasising different elements in that balance.

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

Jean de Venette, a Carmelite friar and medieval chronicler vividly describes the chaos in France which he states he himself witnessed, after the time of this Battle.

Said himself describes his book, Orientalism, as a humanist critique of the enlightenment.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

Wendy Doniger describes the gospel accounts as a " meta-myth " in which Jesus realizes that he is part of a " new myth [...] of a man who is sacrificed in hate " but " sees the inner myth, the old myth of origins and acceptance, the myth of a god who sacrifices himself in love ".

Dennett describes himself as " an autodidact — or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of informal tutorials on all the fields that interest me, from some of the world's leading scientists.

In this book, Hofstadter jokingly describes himself as " pilingual " ( meaning that the sum total of the varying degrees of mastery of all the languages that he's studied comes to 3. 14159 ...), as well as an " oligoglot " ( someone who speaks " a few " languages ).

The word dēmiourgos properly describes his relation to the material ; he is the father of that which is animal like himself.

He describes himself as " being known to one and all as a guy who is just around ".

In the two opening chapters the speaker describes himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem (,, ;, ), presenting himself as a philosopher at the center of a brilliant court.

Jesus declares his unity with the Father, promises to send the Paraclete, describes himself as the " real vine ," explains that he must leave ( die ) before the Holy Spirit comes, and prays that his followers be one.

In the body of the poem, Odin describes at great length the cosmogony of the worlds, the dwelling places of its inhabitants, and talks about himself and his many guises.

The Ghost describes himself as being in purgatory, and as dying without last rites.

He also describes a meeting between himself and the Muses on Mount Helicon, where he had been pasturing sheep when the goddesses presented him with a laurel staff, a symbol of poetic authority ( Theogony, ll.

He came from a prominent family ( his father was master of ceremonies at the court of the Duke ), and he often describes himself as having noble status in the inscriptions to his prints.

He describes himself as free and mentions that he makes money with a job " selling toner over the phone ".

He is well known for using influences from American comics, television, and films in his work, and describes himself as a big fan of Batman and Star Wars.

As Nikolai Ryzhkov describes it in his memoirs, " every Thursday morning he ( Mikhail Gorbachev ) would sit in his office like a little orphan – I would often be present at this sad procedure – nervously awaiting a telephone call from the sick Chernenko: Would he come to the Politburo himself or would he ask Gorbachev to stand in for him this time again?

Torvalds describes himself as " completely a-religious — atheist ", adding that " I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature.

The Church of Scientology describes Hubbard in hagiographic terms, and he portrayed himself as a pioneering explorer, world traveler, and nuclear physicist with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, including photography, art, poetry, and philosophy.