The Spreading Reich
I've had an on-going debate with a colleague at work about the reality of a number of massive 'conspiracies' that, he says, breach the sovereignty of individual countries, enslave the populace to the...
View ArticleWhere Are the Liberal Think Tanks?
This is going to be a short diary entry, because I really want an answer to this question.
View ArticleWhither the Last Best Hope?
Many excellent diaries have been posted this holiday weekend, so I'll take just a few lines to express some random thoughts. These random thoughts are loosely connected to this quote from Abraham...
View ArticleIs It Legal?
This morning, after the umpteenth news story in three days about the pregnancy of Britney Spears' younger sister, I told my wife I was sick of hearing it and refused to discuss it. But this evening, I...
View ArticleHope is A Cult
I awoke the morning to a newspaper with more than one columnist discussing if Obama's campaign is a cult.Sorry if this has already been commented on here, but I want to share my shock at the...
View ArticleIt's Time To Execute Some Corporations
The Atlanta Journal Constitution today is running a Business Feature that demonstrates precisely why we need a law requiring the execution of coporations that repeatedly visit ruin and destruction upon...
View ArticleLooking At Children = "Visual Sexual Agression"
Let's take a break from wind and roar of the campaign to consider yet another step toward authoritariansim in this once free land.The Great State of Maine is now considering a piece of legislation that...
View ArticleI Promise - I'll Stop Complaining About the Genocide
Today I had a revelation, or a recovery, or some such thing. This being Sunday and all, I guess it's a good day for it. But really, I've known this since college (28 years ago now), and I should be...
View ArticleYour Copyright Ownership Rights Under Attack
This will be a short diary, because I really just want everyone to know that Democratic Representative Howard Berman (CA) has caved to the corporate bosses, and introduced legislation that will...
View ArticleMea Culpa: It Didn't Happen Here -- This Time
I'll offer up a really short diary tonight, mainly because I'm fighting the flu and have to return to work tomorrow anyway, but also because this is the last hour before we dance the jig.I lost $5.00...
View ArticleNewsweek: GOP Not Liking Rush Limbaugh in the Mirror
Newsweek is jam packed this week with a delicious series of articles and commentaries by conservatives decrying that fact that Rush Limbaugh now represents their party, the good ol' GOP.Republican...
View ArticleSecession Fever Spreads
Further proof emerged this month (as if we needed any) that the GOP/Conservative movement has passed a threshold of insanity and destructiveness not witnessed since Bleeding Kansas.Follow me after the...
View ArticleTeen Girls Targeted for Re-Education
In a story dated today, The Wall Street Journal reported on the battle between Wyoming District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. and the families of three young girls being victimized by this morality...
View ArticleThe Evaporation of Trust
Many explanations for the current economic crisis have been bandied about, some more accurate than others. What cannot be denied is that a cataclysm of this extent cannot be fixed to one 'cause', but...
View ArticleInsurance Blues (Again)
For almost all of my working life, the pursuit of better health insurance, and the penalties for not having it, have dogged my mind and burdened my life. We have been far more fortunate than most, and...
View ArticleBeware The American Taliban
A diary posted earlier here on DKos, here, has finally moved me to write something I've been thinking about since at least last September.For lack of a better, more explanatory term, I'm going to call...
View ArticleOf Gates, Crowley and Police Thuggery
Numerous diaries and comments are being written to analyse the brouhaha that has developed over the tussle between Harvard Professor Louis Henry Gates and the Cambridge police departmetn, over the...
View ArticleWhat's A Liberal To Do?
Sigh. First, a disclaimer. I am on the down side of fifty, and have lived and seen American civic (and therefore, political) life since John F. Kennedy led us through the Cuban Missile Crisis. I admit...
View ArticleHomeland Security Seizes Internet Domains
The New York Times is reporting that the Immigration and Customs Service, a part of Homeland Security, has seized numerous sites accused of facilitating illegal sharing of music and movies through the...
View ArticleIt's Getting Worse -- Farewell Foxwizard
I'm abandoning my alias tonight. Yep, this is the last entry for FoxWizard, and it is bittersweet. That alias has been mine, in one place or another, for about 15 years, and it does actually say...
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