Susan Grigsby's Profile
I used to be Susan from 29. In some places I still am.
Real Name: Susan Grigsby
Location: California
Groups: Daily Kos, Community Spotlight, Readers and Book Lovers, Military Community Members of Daily Kos, The Grieving Room, Welcome New Users, Netroots For The Troops®, Genealogy and Family History Community, California politics, Monday Night Cancer Club, New Diarists, Cranky Grammarians, Coachella Kossacks
Hobbies: Variable
Twitter: Susanfrom29
Diaries published: 442 (0 days since last diary on Sun Feb 05, 2017 at 04:45 PM PST)
Comments posted: 17095 (0 days since last comment on Sun Feb 05, 2017 at 05:23 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 28932
Total Comment Ratings: 30884
Most Recommended Diary: That was my brother's death you were cheering, you a$$holes Updated, 428 comments, 1421 recommends
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In Stephen King’s novel Under the Dome , the used car salesman/second selectman of Chester’s Mill, Maine, a guy called Big Jim Rennie, had to turn to local bullies to form his police force. ...
by Susan Grigsby
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on Sun Feb 05, 2017 at 04:45 PM PST
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In February 1987, Oprah Winfrey took her popular television show to Forsyth, Georgia, a place most Americans had never heard of. She was there, she said, to “ask why Forsyth County has not ...
by Susan Grigsby
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 06:40 PM PST
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Donald Trump’s unexpected Electoral College win has focused attention on the white working-class voters that, it is claimed, the elitist Democratic Party no longer appears to represent. Of ...
by Susan Grigsby
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on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 04:40 PM PST
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Got plans for later this week? Like maybe a root canal? Or perhaps just a thorough house cleaning? There must be something better to do than spend time watching the final normalization of that ...
by Susan Grigsby
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on Sun Jan 15, 2017 at 10:00 AM PST
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Since Nov. 9, 2016, I have been torn between the burning desire to know what the hell happened to bring the Donald down upon our heads and an even deeper desire to escape reality completely, to ...
by Susan Grigsby
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on Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 04:00 PM PST
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In a New York Times article titled " What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood (*If you’re not a straight white man .),” Mindy Kaling discussed her internal struggles:
My personality ...
by Susan Grigsby
287 comments
on Sun Jan 01, 2017 at 08:00 AM PST
with 194 Recommends
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- The duties of the vice presidency vary from administration to administration. It appears the duties of Vice President Mike Pence, however, will be precisely what they were on the campaign trail: ...54 comments 89 Recs
- Mr President, Please slow down with the crazy stuff. It’s moving too fast. It takes me an average of 4 days to think through and draft a diary on here. Add in my fact checking, research, ...2 comments 1 Recs
- [Last Wednesday, February 1, the current occupant of the Oval Office, Donald Trump, commemorated the beginning of Black History Month, in part, by acknowledging his African American supporters and staffers like Omarosa Manigault as well as...14 comments 34 Recs
- Thomas Countryman is not a pundit. He’s not anything at the moment, other than a citizen, husband, and father. However, until this week he was the Assistant Secretary of State for International ...289 comments 216 Recs
- Resistance protests fading away? Nope. Just getting started. And in places you may not have heard ofOn Wednesday, 16 constituents showed up in six-term Illinois Republican Rep. Peter Roskam’s office to discuss Obamacare with the Congressman. But when a staffer learned a reporter was present, the meeting was canceled. Katherine Skiba and Marwa...122 comments 254 Recs
- My son, daughter and his girlfriend joined their lgbt friends at Stonewll this afternoon in resisting Trump! Great energy, great commitment!!!3 comments 8 Recs
- Godwin’s Law is, in the words of Wikipedia, …an Internet adage which asserts that ‘As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1’—that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope)...15 comments 3 Recs
- Draft plan to resurrect CIA's secret torture dungeons said to be revised because of broad resistanceCharlie Savage at The New York Times is reporting that the Trump regime, under pressure from various members of Congress, cabinet officials and human rights activists, has backed off a draft plan to resurrect the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret...30 comments 93 Recs
- On Jan. 30, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Today, he issued a decree that allows banning of any publication found to be a “threat to public order” (in effect, a threat his power). The edict also covers political meetings. ...7 comments 29 Recs
- Ira Glass and the staff at This American Life received praise for their analysis of the 2008 financial meltdown. They’ve done it again with today’s program on the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban. Podcast available on Sunday, 5...5 comments 11 Recs
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