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DOB: 1948
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Location: Minnesota, USA
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Most Recommended Diary: PBS convention coverage, 22 comments, 11 recommends
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I’m grateful to PBS for its coverage of the national conventions. Largely that’s because I couldn’t get any other live coverage.
I live in a somewhat remote area of Minnesota where I have no cable available, and only fringe coverage by Hughesnet...
by dskoe
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on Fri Jul 29, 2016 at 01:26 PM PDT
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In today's column, " Dumb as we wanna be " Thomas Friedman has discussed the McCain-Clinton gas holiday idiocy, along ...
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on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM PDT
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- appears in today’s Washington Post under the title America’s democracy has become illiberal. He starts by referring to an essay he wrote several decade ago about the rise of illiberal democracies around the world. We saw dictators overthrown and...60 comments 82 Recs
- H/T @JWKeady from Twitter. Excellent quote on Stupidity — by a man murdered by Nazis in 1945. “Who?” some may ask. Via Wikipedia: Dietrich Bonhoeffer [...] was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member...126 comments 195 Recs
- In April, 1968, Jane Elliott, a third grade teacher from Riceville, Iowa introduced what she called the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" experiment to her class. Conceived in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Elliott’s aim in conducting...9 comments 31 Recs
- We were so alike then, almost mirror reflections of each other, two dark-skinned curvy girls with wide, bright smiles. Thick coarse hair crowned our heads, each mane lightly bleached and damaged ...49 comments 164 Recs
- It was one of those conversations you hear between strangers while riding the bus. “I like your shawl,” said an elderly woman sitting on the other side of the aisle from me. She was talking to the twenty-something woman in the seat next to her. ...31 comments 66 Recs
- Once again, we have seen a horrific mass shooting in the United States carried out by an individual armed with an assault rifle. Hillary Clinton has called for the renewal of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that lapsed in 2004, and is being joined by...15 comments 18 Recs
- Guardian: Hillary Clinton calls for renewed assault weapons ban: they're a 'weapon of war' Wall Street Journal: Hillary Clinton Calls for Reinstatement of Assault-Weapons Ban After Orlando Shooting Hillary Clinton has called for the...498 comments 378 Recs
- I had to put on my new bullshit waders before opening Facebook this morning, and good thing! The crap that came spewing out at me about what happened 45 minutes from my doorstep in San Bernadino w136 comments 331 Recs
- Stick a fork in me, I’m done. I’m just out of fucks to give, I’m sorry. I have about 100 fucks in my current backpack, and they are all taken up by actual problems that don’t have real and solvab584 comments 459 Recs
- During the nineteenth century, the United States aggressively pursued a policy of Manifest Destiny to spread out between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. In the minds of many Americans, it was ...9 comments 21 Recs
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