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| Drinking From the Firehose - A Kossack's Guide to Twitter For good or evil, Twitter remains a central piece of the social media puzzle.
For many of those looking at Twitter from the outside, it’s a firehose — a never-ending torrent of bite-sized commentary, references, and conversations — that threatens to... |
wesmorgan1 | 09/12/2018 | 36 | 19 | - | - |
| History Rhymes in Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith is a storied name in Maine politics. She was the first female elected to the Senate not by dint of being the spouse of a senator, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency of either... |
acadia | 09/12/2018 | 15 | 32 | - | - |
| A RANT This rant comes courtesy of someone who in middle age has decided it is time he do something, like vote, because those of us who voted in the past had let him down, and my having been informed I certainly could not be considered progressive because I... |
joe quigley | 09/12/2018 | 20 | 43 | - | - |
| 9/11 Remembrance from Flight 11 It's hard to believe that it was sixteen-years ago today that the United States was attacked by terrorists on U.S. soil in a big way.
I was living in Seattle at the time and received a call from my sister at 5:45-ish in the morning—my time. My first... |
Benthovens5th | 09/11/2018 | 13 | 45 | - | - |
| That sunny morning It was a beautiful morning. Sunlight glittered off the dew that beaded the grasses, and the garden trellis was a mass of blue morning glories, their blossoms reflecting the color of the sky. A few trees were starting to tint red and gold, and it looked... |
Nolana | 09/11/2018 | 33 | 44 | - | - |
| 2018 Minnesota Legislature Elections Preview Part I: Outstate Welcome to the 2018 addition of OGGoldy’s Minnesota legislature preview. Districts 1-28 are considered “Outstate” Minnesota, and are outside of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area; Part I will focus on those seats. Metro seats will be covered in... |
OGGoldy | 09/11/2018 | 51 | 24 | - | - |
| The Language of the Night: Random Thoughts on Metaphors I think we can all pretty much agree that one thing fantasy does extremely well is make metaphors literal. It presents knotty problems in ways we don’t usually consider, de-politicizes and de-... |
DrLori | 09/10/2018 | 39 | 37 | - | - |
| NOLA and Netroots Nation 2018. Would you walk with me? Hi. Good to see you.
Would you mind taking a walk? We won’t be long. Well… maybe a few minutes. I’m getting old, and old people do love to ramble. Well, some old people. Me, anyway. |
Jon Sitzman | 09/10/2018 | 65 | 61 | - | - |
| Expressions of No Tomorrow
(Suicide Prevention Week Sept 9-15) A few weeks back I mentioned my intent to publish today, the first day of National Suicide Prevention Week, a post I wrote about my nephew’s suicide earlier this year.
I had to release myself from that promise.
That piece is too personal to... |
Franks Human | 09/10/2018 | 42 | 54 | - | - |
| Anti-Capitalist Meetup: mindfulness, DSA growth, and capitalism’s murder of a nice planet So many topics, so little time. Or is not a little time sometimes the best part of what we can give each other?
mindfulness
To be honest, I am not at all a mindful person by inclination. Low level anger and anxiety are a seemingly natural state... |
Galtisalie | 09/09/2018 | 61 | 38 | - | - |
| There’s a Fundamental Flaw in Our Thinking
I once said to a Native American friend that I thought that the Golden Rule was a perfect expression of social ethics, and before I could put the period on my sentence, he shot back, “No, it’s not because, if you’re a misanthrope who hates... |
sfzendog | 09/09/2018 | 278 | 295 | - | - |
| Aging Gracefully in Rock: From Lennon to Phair As I write this, I am reminded of John Lennon’s final album, Double Fantasy. While I largely dislike the album’s contents, I am struck with the overarching theme of the effort, which is the tale of a person growing into middle age gracefully. I will... |
cabaretic | 09/09/2018 | 52 | 34 | - | - |
| Dawn Chorus...The Bobolink: Superstar of Migrant Songbirds Let’s take a break from the chaos of ‘Crazytown’ to celebrate an epic natural phenomenon happening all around us right now— the fall migration of birds . Fall is a great time to spot birds ... |
giddy thing | 09/09/2018 | 81 | 83 | - | - |
| The behavior of zealous partisans after disconfirmation Leon Festinger and colleagues in their 1956 groundbreaking field study “When Prophecy Fails” followed the actions of a group committed to the belief that flying saucers would transport them to a special place. Those who committed to the idea gave away... |
Neuro Doc | 09/09/2018 | 118 | 141 | - | - |
| At the Bluegrass Hideaway Last weekend was Labor Day. I had to work all weekend, but I still wanted to have a holidayish weekend with my daughter, Grace. We wandered down to Mansfield, at pizza by the slice, and rode the Carrousel until we were both a little motion sick. We... |
AuntieB | 09/08/2018 | 32 | 62 | - | - |
| I am a patriotic liberal When I was a kid, my family lived in New England — Connecticut and Massachusetts, specifically. My father was a born-and-bred Yankee from the northwest part of Massachusetts, while my mother came from Alabama stock. (A long, entertaining, but... |
blonde moment | 09/08/2018 | 43 | 50 | - | - |
| Jesus, White Fragility and the Syrophoenician Woman: What Robin DiAngelo's Work Can Teach the Church Written while preparing a sermon:
Last week I finished Robin DiAngelo’s new book, White Fragility[i]. I don’t intend to write a book review of it; but I will say it is short, very accessible (if uncomfortable); and required reading for White people... |
peter jarrettschell | 09/07/2018 | 243 | 72 | - | - |
| Thoughts on an old bird guide Yesterday, a friend showed me 2 copies of an old bird guide passed down to her - its title - Land Birds East of the Rockies, by Chester A. Reed. It was originally published in 1906. The copies I saw were printed in 1951 by Doubleday & Company Inc. ... |
dot farmer | 09/07/2018 | 16 | 47 | - | - |
| Labor Day, 2018, 2007....... he walked in, shoved the film up into a light, and sighed. going in we expected something minor, an annoyance. a pain in the ass, but nothing major. but the way he sighed, the doctor, my cousin, the way he sighed, i got a bad feeling.
he sighed... |
PapaChach | 09/07/2018 | 11 | 28 | - | - |
| The United States of Oobleck Oobleck, for those of you who missed it in childhood, is a mixture of cornstarch and water. It has peculiar properties. If you poke it hard, your finger will bounce off. If you touch it gently, your finger will sink in. Pulled slowly, it stretches.... |
janecollins | 09/06/2018 | 40 | 47 | - | - |
| Advance directives and MAID Laws must be a part of healthcare reform There's no way to have a discussion about the state of the healthcare crisis in our country without discussing end-of-life care. The Kaiser Family Foundation notes that about 80% of the 2.6 million people who died in the United States in 2014 were... |
SquireForYou | 09/05/2018 | 78 | 94 | - | - |
| The Daily Bucket - Saving a Life Greetings, my friends! Long time no bucket! The last little while has not been great and a temporary hibernation was required to get my mojo back. Recently, though, a series of events has pried me ... |
Attack Gardener | 09/04/2018 | 159 | 105 | - | - |
| The Language of the Night: V.E. Schwab Looks for Doors In 2013, Oxford University’s Pembroke College inaugurated the annual J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature and, in its relatively brief lifetime, the series has attracted a range of ... |
DrLori | 09/03/2018 | 73 | 45 | - | - |
| Mythic Truth and Trump's Minotaur Presidency A Monster — half human, half bull — lays waste to our nation. He rapes and pillages the land with seeming impunity. He has cowed into craven submission the once powerful Lords of Legislation — Mitch the Machiavellian, Ryan the Rationalizer, and... |
jaaneezutto | 09/03/2018 | 68 | 58 | - | - |
| DK Quilt Guild: Creativity in chaos DK Quilt Guild is a place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips. Quilters here are at many different levels of skill.... |
BeadLady | 09/02/2018 | 40 | 45 | - | - |
| Anti-Capitalist Meetup: I Know You Are, But What Am I? What’s it like to read these words? Are they putting you to sleep? Are you still awake? Or, should I say have you maintained waking consciousness?
What is consciousness?
There are many definitions and interpretations. It has something to do with... |
greenandblue | 09/02/2018 | 100 | 19 | - | - |
| As I prepare for surgery, I'm wondering if Trump's aberrant behavior has caused my melanoma... Spoiler: This is a personal diary in which I am venting against Donald Trump. If you don’t like this kind of thing, then please don’t read it…and, most of all, don’t leave negative comments. There are times when venting is the only way to expel... |
SBvotes | 09/02/2018 | 139 | 61 | - | - |
| Dawn Chorus: Let's Eat! One of the wonderful things about Dawn Chorus is that our visitors are birders and non-birders alike. Some folks stop by just to look at the pictures, some drop-in occasionally, and some of us are ... |
Kestrel | 09/02/2018 | 142 | 85 | - | - |
| Transparency is Democratic One of the consequences of Donald Trump becoming president is that the concept of government transparency has become an increasingly politicized issue. From almost the very beginning of the Trump administration, there has been a steady flow of staffers... |
Angry Scientist | 09/02/2018 | 8 | 13 | - | - |
| A President, a Hurricane, a Bumper Sticker, a Hug and a Prayer Changed My Life I was born (1950) and raised as a Republican. My father always said his family had been Republican since the Civil War even when being a Republican in Sequoyah County (Oklahoma) was dangerous. I wasn’t involved that much in politics when I was... |
Polly First | 09/02/2018 | 83 | 163 | - | - |
| Toward a more positive term Recently, when speaking to the head of the local historical society about finding hints that some crew members listed on whaling ships out of the port of New Bedford during the first half of the 19th Century that I have been transcribing at the New... |
joe quigley | 08/30/2018 | 42 | 40 | - | - |
| Today in Civil Rights History: Emmett Till, Thurmond’s Filibuster, MLK’s Speech Today marks three important anniversaries in the struggle for civil rights. In 1955, 14-year old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. Two years later, segregationist Strom Thurmond gave the longest filibuster in Senate history, speaking against the... |
Camillus | 08/29/2018 | 16 | 39 | - | - |
| Do we need the concept of 'political crime'? Imagine yourself a citizen of the old Soviet Union. (Plus there are other places this would/will apply)
And imagine you felt that the “American way” was superior to the “Soviet way”.
You’d better not say so.
We can all imagine you being sent... |
bluegoatwoods | 08/29/2018 | 83 | 15 | - | - |
| When is a primary not a primary? X days left!
Whenever I hear some talking head pontificate about “X number of days left” before the midterm election, I’m infuriated. Here’s why. In our district we’re having an election right now, today, as I type. What’s happening here is also... |
Scarabus | 08/28/2018 | 21 | 23 | - | - |
| GOTV (or no invite to our party) On November 8th, 2016, my husband and I proudly hosted the absolute worst house party of our lives — even our guests said so. The booze ran warm, food remained uneaten, a large sheet cake inscribed with “Madam President” sat untouched, hushed voices... |
Clark414 | 08/28/2018 | 17 | 26 | - | - |
| In Praise of Nancy Pelosi First, a Tale of Three Friends
The rhetoric surrounding Nancy Pelosi, the current minority leader and future Speaker of the House has been steadily ratcheting up as we are now a few weeks short of the Midterm elections.
Republicans, lacking... |
flylooper | 08/27/2018 | 436 | 413 | - | - |
| Can Hollywood legitimize Asian Americans where society has failed? 3 new films put it to the test. The box-office success of Crazy Rich Asians has created a media buzz spawning the hashtag #asianaugust and drawing comparisons to Black Panther as a breakthrough A-List film for a neglected minority in Hollywood. In a gamble to gain a major studio... |
koNko | 08/27/2018 | 76 | 50 | - | - |
| How Conservatives Talk About Race In The Trump Era. I have found that the conservative discussion of race, at least as reflected in the man they elected to the highest office, generally takes two approaches.
Approach #1: Why Do Liberals Want To Make Everything About Race?
In this one,... |
KeithDB | 08/26/2018 | 50 | 65 | - | - |
| Canvassing: two hours, nine voters registered In IL-13 we have a close congressional election coming. I canvassed a student district for about two hours today: 9 new voters registered, very likely D’s.
Several others said they would switch or consider switching their registrations to this... |
docmidwest | 08/25/2018 | 85 | 213 | - | - |
| GOP Centrists Ask Democrats To Clean Up Their Mess Again
There was a revealing conversation on All In with Chris Hayes last night between former Republican congressman and never Trumper David Jolly and former Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. The ... |
m2c4 | 08/25/2018 | 303 | 507 | - | - |
| Moving Days I sit out front and just enjoy the early evening. On the one block street, two little boys race back and forth on their bicycles, yelling to each other. The sun is out; it’s not too hot, not too cold. Our small yard looks pretty with the heather,... |
CaffeineInduced | 08/25/2018 | 8 | 41 | - | - |
| New Jon M. Chu movie could be a major step forward for Asian representation in Hollywood I have to admit that “uh oh” was my first reaction to the title of the new movie by director Jon M. Chu, Crazy Rich Asians (don’t confuse Chu with John Cho, who plays Sulu in the recent Star Trek movies).
The studio suits also had an “uh oh” moment... |
Alonso del Arte | 08/24/2018 | 42 | 26 | - | - |
| Voter suppression is happening. Here's one easy way to fight back. Check your registration status. There are many ways to win an election. One of the nastiest is to prevent your opponents from voting. Many people will show up at the polls in November only to discover that their names have been removed from their state voter registration records.... |
liberaldad2 | 08/24/2018 | 15 | 28 | - | - |
| "Tear Down That Economy, Mr. Reagan!" Ray Charles pretty much nailed the US economy after eight years of Reagan: “Them that’s got is them that gets, and I ain’t got nothing yet.” I’ve been thinking about Reagan a lot lately, since the Reagan years and the huge tax cuts for the rich were... |
Vandyman99 | 08/21/2018 | 55 | 71 | - | - |
| Jim Crow Era Voter Suppression in Houston As this article from the Houston Press details, a large number of people in the predominately black and Democratic Third Ward in Houston have begun receiving notices in the mail that their voter registrations were being challenged because of changes to... |
Crazycab214 | 08/21/2018 | 93 | 112 | - | - |
| The Language of the Night: Who Fears Death We’re back from hiatus — some weeks in a post-modern medieval monastery, and a couple more for Netroots. For you all who hung in with The Name of the Rose, thank you! It was a pleasure ... |
DrLori | 08/20/2018 | 14 | 31 | - | - |
| Operation Ajax: The Coup that Changed the World Iranian Liberation
Sixty-five years ago today, a CIA-led coup overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddegh. From the 19th century, British military might enforced massive concessions on Iran, including the D’Arcy... |
Camillus | 08/20/2018 | 79 | 109 | - | - |
| IAN: 08/18/18: Removing A Piece of History Earlier this week a bronze statue was removed from outside City Hall in Victoria, BC. And not only was this statue removed, but a huge debate over whether or not to remove ALL his statues all over ... |
Gwennedd | 08/18/2018 | 118 | 77 | - | - |
| Red Tide? Bring On The Blue Wave! (With poll...) What’s the worst thing you’ve ever smelled? For me, it’s liquefied turbot.
I smelled it, oddly enough, on a bright December day about a week after one of those lovely big blizzards we used to get in Michigan. I was 11 or 12, walking with my mother... |
SninkyPoo | 08/17/2018 | 67 | 69 | - | - |
| Fair Redistricting - and Revisiting The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 OK...so in a recent thread, in which gerrymandering was extensively discussed...as well as possible solutions for dealing with it...something was raised which piqued my interest and I felt it deserved its own Diary.
What came up was The Permanent... |
Kalisiin | 08/17/2018 | 131 | 52 | - | - |
| Falling Wages: a Real-Life Story This is a story of real income dropping in the heartland. In spite of it being anecdotal, it is, nonetheless instructive of just how this can come about in a land of plenty – when greed dictates the business decisions of the powers that be.
Our... |
RUBonaTwinkie | 08/17/2018 | 75 | 84 | - | - |
| A possible overlooked contributing cause of police shootings I have been somewhat surprised that no post here that I can find in the last two weeks has discussed the July 30 fatal police shooting of Richard Black of Aurora, CO. Maybe because it didn’t get a lot of media play. It should have, but since it... |
Daniel Case | 08/17/2018 | 125 | 79 | - | - |
| Riding a Harley So I was driving a big, rumbling Harley Davidson south out of High Springs, Fl, rain beginning to speckle the 2/3 of a windshield left undamaged.
Not my usual mode of transportation, but engendered by an uncommon act of kindness and generosity from... |
rogerman | 08/16/2018 | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| When Aretha Franklin visited the USO I still remember a gray day in February 1971. Anti-war sentiment in San Francisco, California was running high, and the USO at 1017 Market Street, where I worked as a secretary, almost felt like a besieged fortress. Then one day, a whisper went through... |
CyberLady1 | 08/16/2018 | 45 | 139 | - | - |
| It's not just about voting: Why I'm volunteering to elect Cort VanOstran in MO-02 When asked to articulate why I spend Saturdays canvassing with my kids in tow, inviting the occasional vitriol of friends on social media, or hosting campaign events in my home, it came down to something a close friend said to me recently—now that I... |
RRideout | 08/15/2018 | 22 | 40 | - | - |
| To Parents of Transgender Children (Especially those who view it as a hardship) Before you say anything about how hard it is for you as a parent. Stop and think.
THIS IS HARDER FOR THEM THAN IT IS FOR YOU.
Before you deadname or misgender them. Stop and think.
DEADNAMING AND MISGENDERING IS A FORM OF ATTACKING... |
Elixa | 08/15/2018 | 153 | 104 | - | - |
| Tuesday Hangout - Digital Tips and Tricks Before the Mid-Terms 8/14/18 Today's post was inspired by this article in the Washington Post Democrats seek stronger social media presence to guard against potential Russian interference in midterms as well as the uptick of ... |
DoReMI | 08/14/2018 | 94 | 45 | - | - |
| Reagan Ruined America The GOP is a party of nihilists, members of the government, actively working to dismantle that very government. The Trump Administration has doubled-down on this strategy, inadequately staffing critical departments including the State Department, and... |
Camillus | 08/13/2018 | 622 | 422 | - | - |
| Thoughts on tough judge in Manafort trial Without sitting in the courtroom, it is hard to guess how a jury will feel about a case. From reports of the Manafort trial, two things are pretty clear: the judge is both crotchety and also a little hostile; and the evidence is pretty... |
Gil Bagnell | 08/13/2018 | 40 | 73 | - | - |
| Shoes The shoes I have worn canvassing, circa 2014, for my third election cycle now. They're still alive and kickin' after countless miles, sweating on brutally hot days, even with back issues that some days make me feel like I'm 86 instead of 36. So, why do... |
LoveWins | 08/13/2018 | 20 | 71 | - | - |
| 250,000 Putin Youth members now report to Russian Army loyalty director | Lincoln green | 08/12/2018 | 50 | 78 | - | - |
| Air-Minded: Grand Theft Airplane Last night an airport employee commandeered a Horizon Air Q400 twin-turboprop airliner at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
He got it started, taxied to a runway, took off, and flew around Puget Sound before crashing on an island (he died... |
pwoodford | 08/11/2018 | 133 | 102 | - | - |
| Our Future Is Asbest There is a town in Russia called Asbest which is the center of Russia’s asbestos mining; one of the so-called “monotowns” wherein the Soviets created engines of their economy by centering an entire town region upon one industry. In this case it was... |
veritas curat | 08/10/2018 | 39 | 71 | - | - |
| Labor Movement Victory in Missouri In a referendum on August 7, 2018, Missouri voters overturned a right-to-work law passed in 2017, giving organized labor a substantial victory. The vote was 64% to 36%. This vote reverses a trend of states passing right-to-work (RTW) laws. Presently,... |
stonehenge | 08/09/2018 | 35 | 47 | - | - |
| Asbestos, a building owner's view I fix up old buildings and lease them out for a living. As a result I deal with asbestos a lot so I have some background on this issue. I’ve been on sites doing remediation and spent weeks of my life reading reports from surveys so when I read laymen... |
txjackalope | 08/09/2018 | 198 | 247 | - | - |
| Collusion: a short primer, or Why we won't lock her up when we lock him up “I’m not the collusion, you’re the collusion!”
Donald Trump and his supporters often act like second-graders who chant:
I'm rubber,
You're glue,
Bounces off me
And sticks to you!
That was a pretty devastating line of counter-attack... |
Krotor | 08/08/2018 | 131 | 129 | - | - |
| Trial strategy in Manafort case Reading news reports doesn’t really give you a good feel for the dynamics of the Manafort trial, but it is still interesting to note some of the things the prosecution is doing to make their case as effective as possible.
Today, they surprised folks... |
Gil Bagnell | 08/07/2018 | 73 | 110 | - | - |
| Michigan Primary Preview After a month long lay off, primary season is back fully underway and my home state of Michigan is up tomorrow and I’m here to break it down. There are competitive senate, gubernatorial, house, and state-level primaries, and so I intend to cover them... |
AJD7 | 08/06/2018 | 96 | 43 | - | - |
| Longing for the calm, reasoned leadership of Captain Picard Before making a major decision, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) meets with his senior staff, carefully listens to what they have to say, then makes his own decision based on what they have told him.
Does the captain from Star Trek: The... |
Alonso del Arte | 08/05/2018 | 160 | 96 | - | - |
| The Emperor has no taste in clothes. Manafort's fashion crimes and misdemeanors. With all the talk about Paul Manafort’s 15 thousand dollar Ostrich jackets, the larger picture is being ignored. His taste in clothes is Fascist Steampunk. A theme he and his fellow Ayn Rand travelers adore. This wistful dream-world looks backwards to... |
Ken Cirelli | 08/05/2018 | 203 | 60 | - | - |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing: A parallel process Not knowing for certain if I am awake or safe in my sleep. An intense dream world with little respect for the boundaries of consciousness. Able to transcend sleep paralysis because the anger and fear is so intensely real.
This anger — when awake... |
remembrance | 08/04/2018 | 53 | 41 | - | - |
| Did You Miss This Anniversary? Don't - It Is An Important One Forty years ago, in 1978, there was a major change in how the United States Army was organized and I was privileged to be a small part of that change. It is common to think of our military services as bastions of resistance to social change yet, in... |
Paul1134 | 08/04/2018 | 48 | 103 | - | - |
| Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit The more you eat, the fewer emissions you toot!
Well… that’s not exactly how it works. It’s more like if you replace beef with beans, then the cows that didn’t have to be bred for slaughter will not have pooped and released methane, and the truck... |
SninkyPoo | 08/03/2018 | 213 | 86 | - | - |
| goddamn cigarettes... i heard a song...then saw an ad…
and it all brought me back…
december 2007…
gray, oppressive gray, and mist…
it seemed like twilight would last for centuries…
a song about a son who died too soon, and an ad about a father who died too... |
PapaChach | 08/02/2018 | 346 | 160 | - | - |
| How free-market policies worsened the student loan debt crisis Ever heard of the privatization of Sallie Mae? No? Well this little-known decision is the monster you’ve never heard of.
For the history. Back in the 1990s, when the Newt Gingrich caucus won ... |
Hoboraiders | 08/02/2018 | 43 | 21 | - | - |
| Speaker of Maryland House of Delegates Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Protect Abortion Rights Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates Michael Busch, together with Maryland Senate President Thomas "Mike” Miller, are two of the three most powerful politicians in Maryland’s state government. Michael Busch has served in the House of Delegates... |
Navy Vet Terp | 08/02/2018 | 49 | 67 | - | - |
| Why Building Trump’s Wall Is Impossible The Great Wall of China is a metaphorical model for trump’s border wall. Most people envision China’s ancient wall as that postcard picture of the monolithic barricade rambling over the ridge lines and mountaintops. The 1000’s of miles of the rest of... |
Zentech | 08/01/2018 | 303 | 167 | - | - |
| You don't need a weatherman... Charles P. Pierce has a short but stunning piece up today about Kiribati, sea level rise, and ex-situ nationhood. It’s a very good quick read. And together with something Richard Haas said today on “Morning Joe,” it’s got me re-freaked out about the... |
SninkyPoo | 07/31/2018 | 84 | 54 | - | - |
| Orca! Growing up in Yuma County, Arizona, did not give me much of a chance to see whales or dolphins and so is was not until I went on a whale watch from San Diego after a meeting of natural history museum people and various regulatory agencies that I really... |
Desert Scientist | 07/30/2018 | 60 | 75 | - | - |
| Energy Dept. coal and nuclear subsidy could cost average US household $160 to $500 per year On June 1 President Trump ordered the US Department of Energy (DOE) to “prepare immediate steps” to keep money-losing coal and nuclear power plants running, soon after the Trump administration ... |
Lincoln green | 07/30/2018 | 121 | 96 | - | - |
| A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO HOW GOVERNMENT FINANCE WORKS (ANY QUESTIONS?) A little about me. I retired after 25 years in DOD finance, attended (there is no graduation) Federal Accounting School and was authorized to sign Treasury Checks (when we still used checks). I served under 5 presidents. I felt compelled to write... |
anotherbarb | 07/29/2018 | 191 | 257 | - | - |
| Daily Bucket: Scraping down and wrapping up for wildfire Giant sequoias are adapted to survive low to moderate intensity wildfires. But climate change has increased drought periods, caused higher temperatures, and in some cases created stronger winds. ... |
Besame | 07/29/2018 | 123 | 92 | - | - |
| Movie Review: Death Wish (1974, 2018) SPOILER ALERT!
The 1974 original version of Death Wish proved to be so successful at the box office that it spawned four sequels and the remake of 2018. When the original starts out, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) and his wife Joanna (Hope Lange)... |
disinterested spectator | 07/28/2018 | 27 | 14 | - | - |
| How to Lie with Statistics. Why Journalists and Pundits Can't Be Trusted with Numbers. While Donald Trump’s approval rating hovers around the low 40% for ‘all voters’ — the lowest ever for a president at this point in his first term - his approval rating among ‘self-declared Republicans’, at 88%, is the highest for any Republican... |
TheCriticalMind | 07/28/2018 | 122 | 69 | - | - |
| My libido nose-dived, and it cost me my marriage On Father’s Day, last month, my wife gave me a card that said “to my Amazing Husband on Father’s Day” on the outside and “I want you to know how blessed I feel to be married to such a wonderful man and loving father” on the inside. Three days later,... |
cjo30080 | 07/27/2018 | 386 | 102 | - | - |
| Mars in the Sky Tonight
(And the Coming Blood Moon) I thought I saw Mars in the sky last night, but I was mistaken.
I live in Los Angeles, so there are approximately 8 lights in the sky (that which I can see to the East, that is). Also, my vision isn’t as sharp as, say, a telescope, or a fish, so... |
Franks Human | 07/27/2018 | 69 | 51 | - | - |
| Some Thoughts from the Road I’ve mentioned before that I drive for one of the car sharing services to help make ends meet.
A few days ago I had a passenger who told me about her niece, who had turned 6 years old a couple months ago. Her niece’s mother worked at a rest home,... |
mftalbot | 07/27/2018 | 13 | 45 | - | - |
| Missouri is About to Give the Blue Wave an Out of Town Tryout We all know what we want to happen in the November election. In Missouri, we want to cause red-to-blue flips in suburban Congressional seats like MO-02 and to keep our Democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill in Washington for another six years. We also... |
LeftOfYou | 07/25/2018 | 95 | 124 | - | - |
| Security Clearance Rescission Threats are a BFD I’ve seen a couple diaries on this site hand-wringing about whether Trump will be cancelling the 2018 elections, or something similar. That’s not how this works. One of the LAST things a ... |
PiRierran | 07/25/2018 | 47 | 130 | - | - |
| Reconstruction Didn't Fail: It Was Murdered “I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.”
-Ulysses S. Grant
In 1870, Hiram Revels became the first black Senator in American history. He represented Mississippi, the state that had sent Jefferson Davis to... |
Camillus | 07/25/2018 | 185 | 180 | - | - |
| When is a threat not a threat? A threat from a distance is not a real threat if it evaporates upon approach.
Every day for a number of years I would leave school at the end of the day, don my rollerblades, skate along the bike path that ran the length of the beach in Long Beach... |
joe quigley | 07/24/2018 | 24 | 65 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Book Club: The Name of the Rose Recap So here we are, at the end of things. I’m glad you’re back, so we can conclude this book properly. Also I promised you the “contemporary novel side of the equation,” and I keep my ... |
DrLori | 07/23/2018 | 115 | 43 | - | - |
| Russian army hackers are attacking our elections now. Defend yourself with MFA. Kevin Poulsen reports in the Daily Beast that Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers contains the name of the author of X-Agent , the malware used to hack the DNC during ... |
Lincoln green | 07/21/2018 | 117 | 177 | - | - |
| Gay College Life - Then And Now WAY back when in August of 1976, I enrolled as a freshman at a liberal arts Texas University. I knew I was gay and looked forward to being in a less threatening atmosphere — even the dorm I ... |
Bill in Waco Texas | 07/19/2018 | 113 | 130 | - | - |
| A bold blueprint for Democrats to lead the nation for at least a generation to come Hope. Optimism. Anticipation.
Those feelings often seemed a distant memory during the past 18 months, at least in the part of my life that concerns politics and the future of my country.
Then, a few days ago, Paul Glastris published an article in... |
Krotor | 07/19/2018 | 226 | 211 | - | - |
| Republicans Can Not Govern Honorably Who was the last honorable Republican president? Was it Bush Sr? Eisenhower?
We are well aware that the current occupant of the White House regularly partakes in receiving emoluments, attacking federal agencies, denigrating opponents, disparaging... |
greenandblue | 07/19/2018 | 162 | 128 | - | - |
| Emotion Most songs are built around emotion, some deep, insistent, often incomprehensible, stirring in the soul. Singing the song well requires tapping into that emotion, or it’s merely a catalogue of words set to music.
But there is a danger in tapping... |
rogerman | 07/18/2018 | 33 | 79 | - | - |
| Word of the Day: Quisling Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/; Norwegian pronunciation: [²kvisliŋ]) noun “a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country.”
By now, 1.5 years into Trump’s alternate reality America, you may have heard the word “quisling”. Like the... |
catgrin | 07/17/2018 | 143 | 123 | - | - |
| Race a Day: Montana Senate This is a diary series I’ve begun where every day (more or less) until the election, I’ll be highlighting one competitive race, giving some background, and information about how to help out. The goal is to go senate, governors, then house, focusing on... |
HeartCooksBrain | 07/17/2018 | 22 | 52 | - | - |
| Preparedness Refresher Folks, it’s summertime, which means you never know when a hurricane can hit, a tornado can take out all the electrical transformers in the neighborhood, or a massive state-sponsored, Russian cyber attack can cripple our electrical grid, financial... |
yashko | 07/16/2018 | 67 | 58 | - | - |
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