Birthers - ALL IN THEIR HEADS (w/poll)
Day before yesterday I penned a diary titled Birther Zeitgeist and Inner Selves Revealed which argued that the so-called Birther Movement was more a collective expression of well understood trauma...
View ArticleVast Left Wing Conspiracy Appearing Weak? w/poll
This is going to be short and sweet.Tea party activists have been motivated and organized by K street lobbyists, the NRCC, right wing punditry, and hate radio to attend and disrupt in-district...
View ArticleProgressives With Guns (A Short History of Power)
I know I'm about to walk into the DK meat grinder but here goes ...Progressives must seriously consider ways to effectively counter the implied threats and overt political messaging being sent by the...
View ArticleLakoff Hits It Out of the Park (White House Does Not) w/ Poll
This is going to be rather brief. George Lakoff, who can be somewhat obscure at times, has hit it out of the park with a cogent analysis of how the Obama Administration completely screwed up both the...
View ArticleHELP NEEDED - Right Wing NYS Assemblyman Holding Fake Health Care Town Hall
Background: In '06 former Orleans co-founder and progressive anti-nuke activist John Hall beat the incumbent Republican Sue Kelly in NY-19. This victory turned the district blue for the first time in...
View ArticleMy Knee Story - Simple Procedure Gives Me Back My Life
This is my first non-political diary in 3+ years as an active Kossack.I have little doubt that Ted Kennedy's passing was the trigger to this reflection on knees, aging, happiness, and redemptionI'm 52...
View ArticleYOU F**KED UP, YOU TRUSTED US!
The meta frame is shifting.We are losing control of the narrative and along with it the power to turn our ideas into progressive outcomes.Intertwined and tightly related components of the American...
View ArticleReports of Glenn Beck's Death Greatly Exaggerated (w/poll)
So I'm going over (or is it under?) the line with this diary, but when GB is so nicely skewered I just can't help myself.Here's the conceit of the ONN (Onion News Network) story. A young woman has...
View ArticleLieberman Blames Weiner (w/poll)
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Hypocrisy) is on the cusp of having the last laugh in the great health care "reform" effort of 2009.As we approach the final denouement, Joe's strategy and last minute tactics...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Reform Poll w/ Mini-Diary
As "Health Care" reform has zig-zagged in a dizzying journey from the White House to the HoR to the Senate (with major detours to Death Panel Way, Teabagger Alley and Netroots Civil War Lane) we've...
View ArticleLimbaugh Recants Global Warming Denial!!!!
In a strikingly unexpected about face a galaxy of right wing superstars, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, issued a joint press release today...
View ArticleMoney. Sex. Power. Love. Happiness. (w/poll)
So David Brooks thinks he might know something about what makes people happy.As is standard in his "pseudo-social-pysch" columns, Brooks takes one part second hand data, one part ideological spin, one...
View ArticleThank You Tom Friedman - Really, Thank You
There is no real need to recount the many reasons why Tom Friedman has been justly ridiculed on this site.His record of numbingly wrong headed ideas and seemingly endless list of silly pronouncements...
View ArticleAnother Knee Operation - Is 3rd Time the Charm?
Last summer I penned a diary about a medical procedure that gave me back functioning knees and a new lease on daily life.Unfortunately, the story has a less than happy second act.I'm now just 36 hours...
View ArticleWTF are Steven Chu and David Axelrod Doing!?!?!?! (w/poll)
I really can't believe what I heard tonight on MSNBC.I missed the 7pm EST Hardball and saw Rachel at 9pm so feel compelled to comment on Dr. Chu's comments before I light into Axlerod who I just now...
View ArticleTop Kill: How BP and the MSM will spin "success" (w/poll)
No one wants TOP KILL to work more than I do. No one!!!Say what?!?!I'm an atheist that's what. I don't believe in deliverance. But in sharp contrast to what I think I know, since April 20th I've...
View ArticleWhy America Needs a Draft (w/poll)
I have been arguing for a reinstatement of the draft, without exceptions, for a very long time. Through the years my main argument for universal military service has focused on a simple equation that...
View ArticleShort diary w/poll: Why are ads for a REPUB congressional candidate plastered...
For the past several weeks (or is it months?) the right wing republican challenger running against my NY-19 district incumbent, John Hall, has been targeting web ads at Hudson Valley voters when they...
View Article"I Didn't Eat Any Dog Food"
Huh?Follow me over the fold to learn why these six words are directly relevant to yesterday's assassination in AZ.In a world where the entire professional right, from E. Erickson to J. Boehner to R....
View ArticleOctober Surprise - 8:30am, Nov 2, 2012 (w/poll)
A scant 96 hours before the first voters go to the polls on Tuesday November 6th, the Labor Department will release October 2012 employment numbers.While many factors will drive the outcome of the...
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