It's not about the war, stupid.
I hope the title of this diary is not too confrontational. It's a reference to the Clinton campaign slogan, "It's the economy, stupid". Some people were offended by that slogan, thinking that they...
View ArticleOK Bye. Ciao! 'SLong. Luck? Ta, Toodles? Siigh.
We understand, really, we do. The war was your only issue, and the Democrats betrayed you, and It's. Over. Healthcare, the environment, corruption, destruction of the Constitution, blablabla, you...
View ArticleLTE to SF Chron: Intimidation
Editor, San Francisco Chronicle;I feel that I can only publish this letter in an anonymous forum such as DKos. Let me explain why: Your editorial policy is that letters to the Editor will only be...
View ArticleConservative or liberal: why?
Sometimes I argue with a conservative (I never learn). The point of contention may be quite simple. I can have all my facts impeccably documented, and prove my argument almost mathematically, but it...
View ArticlePurity Police Lynchmobs
There's a phenomenon here at DKos that I find troubling: Purity Police (PP) Lynchmobs. The PP are groups of people who feel passionately about a current issue, to the extent that they cannot tolerate...
View ArticleMorford on the Purity Police
So. You think you know how to rant? You think that when the weight of Rethug idiocy, thievery, and corruption gets so great that you snap, you can unleash a torrent of vitriol so incandescent that...
View ArticleSchadenfreude! (RedState)
Just a brief diary for those nasty people (like me) who delight in the misery of their enemies. I was browsing RedState this morning to bask in the agony of the wingnuts at the powerful showing of...
View ArticleThe economy: WTF? (with poll)
Well, the stock market isn't doing too badly, since the low in March. (Whenever I try to short it, I get my ass handed to me). The economic gurus can't decide if we're in a recession. The consensus...
View ArticleI/P: You're missing the point
This will be a short diary, something of a rant, without impressive research or links, the sort of diary that elicits the derisive remark "should have just been a comment!" Forgive my ego, but I think...
View ArticleRKBAbots: WTF?
Okay, folks. First off, let me admit that my writing and diarying skills suck dregs. I just feel that this is a diary that needs to be written, and nobody else is stepping up, so here I go.And what is...
View ArticleFurbutt Tails: Snuff
I'm prejudiced against hounds as pets, especially Beagles. Pack dogs. I don't care for purebred dogs generally, having found that they tend to have problems due to inbreeding.So, what does She come...
View ArticleGod, Guns, Sex, and Albion's Seed
People in the other "developed" countries have a tendency to look with raised eyebrows at us Americans because of our attitudes toward religion and weaponry. When it comes to God and guns, we sometimes...
View ArticleSermon for atheists
You know, religionists have a custom where they all get together on Sunday to re-brainwash each other, with an indoctrination spiel, called a "sermon". So I thought, just in the interest of...
View ArticleA book changed your life? Really?
There's this popular theme here, "A book that changed my life." So, reading a book actually changed the course of your life? Sounds a little, uh, hyperbolic to me. Well, I'm the last guy in the world...
View ArticleHow to reach a Republican
Sometimes you hear people say of an election that it is the most critical we have ever faced. I believed that in 2000. And again in 2004. Well, I was right, wasn't I, fellow citizens of The United...
View ArticleIt's Not THEIR Issue
In this, the most important election ever, the Rethugs are going to beat us bloody, with one of our own best issues. I'll explain.
View ArticleGot my LTE in the Coloradoan
My pet peeve this election year is Republicans blaming us for the debt that they ran up. "OWEbama". Have you heard that s*it? Well, I got my LTE on it published this morning in the Fort Collins...
View ArticleColorado Concealed Carry Class
Recently, my wife and I took the class to qualify for a handgun concealed carry license in Colorado, and I thought a report might be of interest and lead to valuable discussion. (Neither she or I are...
View ArticleFinal Tally of Illegal Voters in Boulder County
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler (R), currently seen as a serious challenger to Gov. Hickenlooper, has been on a crusade to end the plague of fraudulent voting by noncitizens.Today's Denver...
View ArticleGun Control FAIL.
Hello. I'm a resident of the great purple state of Colorado. You know, the state that voted for Obama twice, and put Democrats in the control of the state government. Exactly the sort of state that is...
View ArticleDid the CIA get Mandela arrested?
First, an apology for this cursory diary. If someone else does a better job, I'll take it down.On Dec. 7, the New York Times published a piece by Bill Keller, "Nelson Mandela, Communist", about...
View ArticleThe Atheist's Sermon: Primitive Baptists
Anyone who has encountered me here in a religion-related diary knows me as a strident opponent of all organized religion, as one who defines "Faith" as the dangerous practice of believing something...
View ArticleOh, pun thread. New usernames
So, you've just discovered Daily Kos, or maybe you're a long term lurker, and you've decided you have something to say; you want to become a member of this community. Now the question arises, what to...
View ArticleOn those evil Russians
The universal American condemnation of Russia over Crimea strikes me as a bit myopically one sided.The Russian Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol is a lot more important to them than Guantanamo is to...
View ArticleRadical Liberals, Purity Police, and Hijabs
A diary published yesterday really hit home with me; it was about the inability on DKos to disagree with positions strongly held by some groups without being mobbed by attacks, buried under HRs, or...
View ArticleTerror in the garden. Help!
Over a month ago, I bought a little basil plant at a local nursery, brought it home, and put it in my grow room with all the vegetables that I had started from seed. Well, this basil plant had a nasty...
View ArticleGrammar cop can't stand it any longer!
With pronouns, an apostrophe indicates a contraction. This is not differential equations, people. If your poor brain is incapable of comprehending the meaning of the words "pronoun" and "contraction",...
View ArticleHarper Lee, Texan Daddy, and Reality
Now, I have not read the new "Watchman" novel, and this is not a review of the book. I have avidly read a number of reviews of it, and I believe I get the picture: Watchman is set in the real South of...
View ArticleThe Final Word on Gluten
I felt I just had to share this:https://www.youtube.com/...I'm working on a version of it for the anti-"GMO" people.
View ArticleBooks so bad they're good: Hating Perfection
This very strange book just appeared in the mail recently: Hating Perfection, by John F. Williams. It is a collection of personal anecdotes, tales, and parables, beginninng with an account of taking a...
View ArticleAnti-Science, Genocide, GMO, and Nuclear Power
Today's edition of the New York Times contains an important and disquieting piece, "The Next Genocide", by Timothy Snyder, on the danger of science denial, particularly the denial of climate change....
View ArticleWhite Privilege? What White Privilege?
In the early '70s, about 2 A.M. one fall morning, a Taos cop stopped me for a busted tail light, came around to the side of my Jeep and shined his light into my window. I reeked of alcohol, and there...
View ArticleCologne NYD Attacks And NY Times Reader Response
In its opinion pages, the New York Times regularly prints a "Room For Debate" feature, with opinion pieces by six or so writers of varying opinions. Reader comments on these pieces are taken, and the...
View ArticleTrump? Piffle.
I can't believe people are frightened of a horror-movie clown who has as much chance of becoming our next president as I do.No, the real monster is the warmongering, misogynistic, homophobic, racist,...
View ArticleNY Times (and its readers) on immigration. Also, Brexit.
When I read a NY Times opinion piece of particular interest to me (especially one I disagree with), I like to go to the user comments and sort them in order of ones with the most user recs. This is...
View ArticleI Don't Get "BLM"
Something doesn't make sense to me. Every time there is an unjust shooting of a Black person by police in this country, our media erupts. TV, newspapers, the internet -- we are inundated with details...
View ArticleGoodall Nails It -- Trump:chimp
I can’t believe this hasn’t been diaried here. Jane Goodall has an interview in The Atlantic likening Trump’s act to chimp dominance behavior. From The Hill:thehill.com/…In order to impress rivals,...
View ArticleDepressed? Anxious? Cannabis Microdosing!
Hey, feeling kind of depressed? Feel like life is pointless? Or maybe your problem is more in the area of anxiety and sleeplessness? It seems like there’s a lot of that going around lately.Maybe...
View ArticleBook Review: Billions Must Die
It seems quite clear that people now alive will see the tropical regions of the Earth become uninhabitable; look at Australia already. Where will the people living in the tropics go? There are over 400...
View ArticleImmigration Will Give Trump A Second Term
I and my Democrat friends are alarmed at the attitude of many in our Party about the situation at our southern border. Have you read the excellent Newsweek article DONALD TRUMP IS RIGHT, THERE IS A...
View ArticleNYT Readers On Immigration
When I read an NY Times opinion piece, I find it most enlightening to go the the comments by Times readers that are most recced by Times readers. Yesterday, the Times published a pro-immigration piece...
View ArticleBig Pharma wants to kill us!
I have serious COPD. One of the drugs that allow me to do things like go for a walk or even climb the stairs to bed without being connected to an oxygen machine is called Combivent. When my doctor...
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