Dana Houle is a political professional now living in Washington, DC. He is the first in his family to graduate high school, to travel overseas without a rifle in his hand, and to work in politics, but he has maintained his family's devotion to organized labor as a force for positive political and social change. He became a contributing editor in 2003, before Daily Kos ran on the Scoop system and thus before user ID's, diaries and meta. In 2005 he teamed with other contributing editors Meteor Blades and Trapper John to found The Next Hurrah. He misses Tiger Stadium and rues the demise of the independent record store. At 42, he is technically a Baby Boomer, but he refuses to join any age cohort that would have him as a member.