Not comfortable with overstatements
This is in response to Nashville Fan's diary, "Not Comfortable with Snowden Hero Worship on DKos."I'm glad Nashville Fan said what they needed to say and I hope it sparks a more substantive...
View ArticleWould you have welcomed a coup against Bush?
Disclosure: What I know about Egypt makes me no expert and this is more about reactions I'm having, and questions that have been bouncing around my head after reading some of the editorial opinions in...
View ArticleNot a member of a union but a proud union supporter.
Currently I work in a job where there is no union. I've been in unions before. I've picketed and been on strike. I've gained important benefits and fair pay, but those are not the only reasons I am a...
View ArticleI welcome a conversation about these annoying calls for more conversations
Are you tired of the calls for "conversations"? Am I the only one who finds this annoying? It seems whenever something troubling happens, a problem that obviously needs fixing and is once again...
View ArticleShaming the "lurkers"
My name is gnothis and I'm a lurker. Everyone in the circle reply, "Hi, gnothis." Though I am now a member of dailykos and posted a few diaries and comments I still lurk at a number of other sites....
View ArticleHow do you solve a problem like Dick Durbin?
Illinois was my home for 27 years--I was born and raised there--and everytime Dick Durban makes noises about "saving" Social Security I get very upset. Early in his career he was a legal counsel for...
View ArticleWhat the hell is happening in Venezuela?
Ok, it was a Facebook post, but when I went to the link I was blown away. If it's true why isn't it all over kos? I'm holding back any feelings til I know the truth but I'm not finding anything beyond...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks did the what now?
A cursory glance didn't show any diaries on this topic--I know there are much more qualified people than me on dailykos to analyze this--but isn't this an admission of violating the Foreign Corrupt...
View ArticleAmericablog has lost me.
I lurk. I lurked here for almost the whole life of this site until recently. I also was lurking at Americablog since before the Gannon/Guckert expose in 2005. It remained one my top sites up to late...
View ArticleA racist litmus test.
Right wing memes are like right wing comedy. They are not funny. They are mean spirited, illogical, and often prove the point they are disputing. Take, for instance, the below meme posted on Bookface...
View ArticleI despise Rahm.
It is difficult for me to put into language the anger I feel at Rahm's reelection. For most of my adult life I have striven to remove hate from my life, but "democrats" like Rahm, and Andrew Cuomo, and...
View ArticleA Definition of Duggary.
In response to Dan Savage's great idea, I'd like to propose a definition for Duggary: [Dugh-ar-ree] noun 1. To pay no attention to obvious child molestation and hope it goes away. "As the below chart...
View ArticleBernie vs. Hillary: Both Siderism and False Equivalencies
Civility is important in political discourse if we really want to hear and understand each other. To be very clear, what I write below is about the Clinton campaign, not Clinton supporters. I am...
View ArticleStupid and Sorry
My deepest and sincere apologies to the dailykos community, those who saw my last post, and anyone else. In cases such as this I think excuses undermine forgiveness and healing, but explanations can...
View ArticleOpen letters to people who won't read them.
Am I embarrassed for my country, or am I just embarrassed? Like so many of you I thought we had it in the bag. Possible wave election! We might win back the House too! Writers and pollsters who had...
View ArticleChoose Hope
As much as I feel otherwise today I'd like to express some hope. Firstly, thank you to all the protesters who are in DC today to act on their constitutionally guaranteed rights to dissent and assemble....
View ArticleDear Senator Franken,
Right now many men are getting an education, myself included. This is a good thing, but I cannot help but feel the loss of you not being in the Senate fighting the good fight. Your intelligence,...
View ArticleSoldiers died for this?
I've seen good, decent people express their concern online about the erasure of history, heritage, and claiming that soldiers died for this history and heritage. As a historian I have some strong...
View ArticleNatural Allies
It’s been heartening to see the left coalesce behind Biden but there is still work to be done. At this point the right is so far out that they revel in caging immigrant children, and they support...
View ArticleRacist Catholic Priest had to resign due to DUI in 2009
As reported in Rawstory, Father Theodore Rothrock of St. Elizabeth Seton Church in Carmel, IN sent this message to his parishioners regarding BLM: “The only lives that matter are their own and the only...
View ArticleWhy didn't Garland act earlier?
There has been speculation that Garland finally acted because of the pressure generated by the Jan. 6th Committee. That makes sense to me, and it’s a possible partial explanation of why he acted now....
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