Sens. Kennedy and Byrd: RESIGN NOW!
From the outset, I'll state that I have nothing but enormous respect for Senators Kennedy and Byrd and the work they've done in the Senate. In particular, as a once and future Massachussettsan, and a...
View ArticleMSM Imbalance in Coverage of Health Care Rallies
The front page of my local "news"paper today has the headline "Thousands" protest Obama health care plan in Washington.Many diaries yesterday hit upon the dishonesty about crowd estimates. The fact is...
View ArticleI Call Shenanigans on Trudy Rubin: Obama won't be crippled in foreign policy...
Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer, author of the "Worldview" column, opined in a piece several days ago (I just saw it reprinted today) that "A US president who failes on his signature issue --...
View ArticleSunday Sermon: Hope, Faith, Evolution, the Climate, and the Future of Humanity
(promoted from a rant in comments)I have been thinking recently of the whys and wherefores of climate change deniers and evolution deniers, and the general problem of people who have a magical belief...
View ArticleSome Perspective on Haiti; Can You Spare Some Old Shoes?
The casualty figures from Haiti are startling. The dead alone may surpass the '05 Tsunami and is looking like it's three or four times as bad as the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. A third of the country are...
View Article"News" Flash: Financial Executives Bought Scott Brown
Today's Boston Globe has an article on the heavy spending on Scott Brown's campaign for the US Senate in Massachussetts from executives at financial institutions: In a six-day span just before the US...
View ArticleHappy Groundhog Day, again
Remember the Saturday Night Live sketch when Dolly Parton hosted, back in the 90s, when she had the whole cast around her telling them what it was like to grow up poor and without television in the...
View ArticleWhy do Republicans Hate the Free Market?
Ah, yet another example of Republicans who love huge corporations so much they're willing to violate every principle of free market economics to help them. Here's installment No. 423, which takes us to...
View ArticleHCR IS a Jobs Bill
I've heard lots of chatter from concern trolls in the punditocracy and blogospheria about how Obama's been so single-mindedly focused on HCR that he's ignored the economy (stupid) and jobs in...
View ArticleComrades! Welcome to Socialist Workers' Paradise!
Ah yes, the Real Americans have caught on to us at last! But it's obviously too late for them, as we have passed important legislation against the will of the Real Americans!I am referring, of course,...
View ArticleMore Monstrous Socialism from Our Nation's Military Establishment
Will the horror never end? Is there no part of American life which the government is unwilling to interfere? First it was preventing our senior citizens who wished to live in huts and dine on Purina...
View ArticleYour Latest GOP Alzheimer's Moment: Blaming Obama for the Oil Spill
I heard this live within the hour, so please forgive me for not having a more detailed on-line citation. But Congressman John Mica of Florida has to win a new prize for the biggest balls of hypocrisy,...
View Article"Taxpayers' Rights": The Right-Wing Meme That's Anti-Democratic
There's a phrase that's been in use in American politics with greater frequency in the last decades that bothers me. That phrase is Taxpayer.The use of this phrase frequently shows up in...
View ArticleSarah Palin, Meet Robert Frost
Oh god, sweet Jesus, please, not another Palin diary. And...this one is from...me! What am I doing?Well, I have a hard time resisting actual irony, especially when it is so poetically based. This story...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate-15 Results Diary
I commented on the election results open thread, but decided to do a diary on this so I could post results.For those of you not aware, this is a pretty important special election. It was held to...
View ArticleCAPTAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR TITANIC DISASTER!
Calls for the removal of Captain Barack Obama grew today, lead by papers controlled by William Randolph Hearst, after repeated reports of the many missteps he took in guiding the maiden voyage of the...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos Guide to Time Travel
It's becoming clear that our government's secret research into Time Travel is bearing fruit. The signs are everywhere:Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently let the cat out the bag...
View ArticleFunding Cuts Killed Him
This was a minor item in the local paper today, and no doubt will go unnoticed by the world at large. A man walked into San Francisco Bay in Alameda Monday, in a mental condition unknown, and waded in...
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Don't Give Up the Ship
History is on our side. One of the most maddening things to me about the Tea Party has been their distorted use of American History, particularly of the revolutionary war period, to further their...
View ArticleExplaining the GOP Candidates to My Mom
My mom hasn't really been following the GOP Presidential "campaign" much, so in a recent conversation with her she expressed some confusion over who was who when I went over some of their policy...
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