REMEMBERING BARTCOP

Terry Coppage, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, based blogger, died on March 5 from leukemia.  Mr. Coppage was the author of the website bartcop.com, one of the very best liberal and progressive sites on the Internet.

I first discovered bartcop.com in 2000 when I first ventured onto the Internet.  I bought an iopener, a small device that allowed you Internet access, but not much else.  I had a dial-up connection back then.

Bartcop.com combined humor and outrage to expose the venality and hypocrisy of the political right in the United States.  Mr. Coppage had a unique online personality that allowed some of his personal, as well as political passions, to come through to the reader.  I will never think of tequila, for example, without thinking of bartcop.com, or Bixby corn, or the band Garbage.