What's in your window? Beautifying and activating local Democratic Party...
What does your local Democratic Party headquarters look like? Does the outside window look inviting? Does it transmit important information, and, more importantly, convey important, sticky messages to...
View ArticleMedicare for All: National Call-In Day for HR 676
Medicare for All: National Call-In Day for HR 676 Not a real diary, but an action item. Per what we have learned from Indivisible, and other experiences, call your Representative. Thank them or push...
View ArticleCalling for the murder of protesters in Oregon
This is the new normal, I suppose. It should not be.My local newspaper, Roseburg, Oregon’s The News-Review, chose to publish a letter to the editor that specifically called for the murder of...
View ArticleTrump's second term. How to build an autocracy.
Here is a nightmare scenario from David Frum. David Frum? David—effing—Frum?Yes:It’s 2021, and president donald trump will shortly be sworn in for his second term. The 45th president has visibly aged...
View ArticleThe Conservative Case for National Health Insurance--got me banned at RedState.
In 2006, I posted the following on RedState, and got banned from that site. I thought about it because of teacherbill’s diary here today, regarding hell freezing over. I reproduce my ancient diary...
View ArticleI bought a set of Scott Pruitt tires today...
I bought a set of Scott Pruitt tires today. They are oil – based, aggressively grabby and grasping, and bad for the environment* and, from day one, they are covered in shit.* I use the ATV to haul hay...
View ArticleAlexandra Petri Nails It! (Girls: Please smile, listen, and be charming. But...
So, a very thoughtful commenter here on Daily Kos and I exchanged a few lines on whether Alexandra Ocasio – Cortez was acting appropriately, or whether she needed to try to be less of a rock star....
View ArticleOne-click to save the U.S. Postal Service
I'm a rural American. My internetstubules are slow, I have no local bookstore or pharmacy, and I rely on the United States Postal Service for everything from Netflix to medications to dead-tree...
View ArticleSurvivor Benefit Plan Opportunity Open for Military Retirees with Same-sex...
It was news to me.Maybe it's old news to some of you, but, even if it is, I urge you to pass along this information to anyone you know who might be able to use the information I received as a military...
View ArticleAyn Rand antidote: For the Win!
Ayn Rand's cold, dead hand has held the controls too long. It's time for a new mythology to replace Atlas Shrugged and the rest of the hogwash that dripped from her venomous pen.For the Win, Cory...
View ArticleCarpetbagging Oregon style. With a soupçon of teabag.
One of the principles of our representative government is that the people we elect ought to have actually lived for a reasonable time in the geographic area that they are elected to represent.It's not...
View ArticleWhat's in your window? Beautifying and activating local Democratic Party...
What does your local Democratic Party headquarters look like? Does the outside window look inviting? Does it transmit important information, and, more importantly, convey important, sticky messages to...
View ArticleMedicare for All: National Call-In Day for HR 676
Medicare for All: National Call-In Day for HR 676 Not a real diary, but an action item. Per what we have learned from Indivisible, and other experiences, call your Representative. Thank them or push...
View ArticleCalling for the murder of protesters in Oregon
This is the new normal, I suppose. It should not be.My local newspaper, Roseburg, Oregon’s The News-Review, chose to publish a letter to the editor that specifically called for the murder of...
View ArticleTrump's second term. How to build an autocracy.
Here is a nightmare scenario from David Frum. David Frum? David—effing—Frum?Yes:It’s 2021, and president donald trump will shortly be sworn in for his second term. The 45th president has visibly aged...
View ArticleThe Conservative Case for National Health Insurance--got me banned at RedState.
In 2006, I posted the following on RedState, and got banned from that site. I thought about it because of teacherbill’s diary here today, regarding hell freezing over. I reproduce my ancient diary...
View ArticleI bought a set of Scott Pruitt tires today...
I bought a set of Scott Pruitt tires today. They are oil – based, aggressively grabby and grasping, and bad for the environment* and, from day one, they are covered in shit.* I use the ATV to haul hay...
View ArticleAlexandra Petri Nails It! (Girls: Please smile, listen, and be charming. But...
So, a very thoughtful commenter here on Daily Kos and I exchanged a few lines on whether Alexandra Ocasio – Cortez was acting appropriately, or whether she needed to try to be less of a rock star....
View ArticleA Modest Proposal: A Wall of Bones
A MODEST PROPOSALFor preventing the children of the Earth, from being a burden on the wealthy of this great nation, and for making them beneficial to the public.With apologies to Dr. Jonathan Swift,...
View ArticleLet's *not* say "Adiós" to Donald Trump. "Zum Teufel" is better.
With apologies to Julián Castro, who has used the phrase several times now ("On January 21, 2021, we will say adiós to Donald Trump”), that lovely Spanish word is too kind. So are farewell, goodbye,...
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