Suddenly Homeless Charley Needs Our Help Again
Fellow Kossack Charley James needs our help again. If we don't pitch in one more time, then the man who is giving us the moving and eye-opening Suddenly Homeless diaries will be out on the street Sept....
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...
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WI-Sen: PPP Has Tammy Baldwin (D) Beating Tommy Thompson (R), 49-45
Uploaded with ImageShack.usI know, I'm breaking my promise on the diaries but I have been waiting all day for the latest PPP poll on the Wisconsin Senate race. Democrat Tammy Baldwin is beating...
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Must read of the day: "The Republican Party is only a viable entity because...
Please read the whole article by Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate.com, but here is the heart of it. I’ve spent some time putting “truth” claims and false equivalencies in perspective because I want...
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German Spiegel says:" Both men, Kelly and Browne, aren't telling the truth."...
(Written by an American expat of European ancestry living in the European Union)(This diary is dedicated to the memory of Darrius Kennedy. I never knew him in life but by writing about his death, I...
View ArticleWalmart Black Friday Boycott Supporters
Please list below in the comments any links to actions people can take in their area to support the Black Friday Walmart strike. There is already one for Chicago, which I have posted below. I will...
View ArticleRomneys huge auto bailout fantasy
OK I don't write that many Diaries, and I FUCKED up badly by jumping the gun on my last one about Trump, I was more than a little embarrassed. I honestly believed it was something Trump would stoop to,...
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PPTS Episode 41: "ALEC vs. ALICE"
Join us this evening for a special show on a new project to counter The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): The American Legislative Issue and Campaign Exchange (ALICE).This is a pretty...
View ArticleNot Voting? The Koch Brothers Thank You
I don't know what's worse: Is it that a party would deliberately seek to deny American citizens the right to vote knowing full well the extraordinary sacrifices that went into securing those rights? Or...
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Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past...
View ArticleCan there ever be another revolution?
This is not a frivolous question even if it seems so. I just read this quote from Lenin on facebook: "A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every...
View Article"McCutcheon v. FEC" What YOU Can Do-Today!
Sometimes, we mere citizens feel useless, and more often than not powerless to have impact on those important things which affect our daily lives. One of the principal reasons for such (and other)...
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