Google considers leaving Chamber [Action]
From MoveOn: Right now we have a huge opportunity to deal a serious blow to one of Washington's most powerful lobbies, the deeply conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At Google headquarters,...
View Article[Action] HIV+ Child Barred from Milton Hershey School
This latest from Change.org Link also leads to other worthy petitions, including one that asks Newt Gingrich not to force poor children into janitorial duties. Tim (not his real name) is a regular...
View ArticleProgress at Last! Now admit it..
No one in the United States ever predicted that a Catholic with three wives would be battling a Mormon with one to oust a black man from the White House. It ain’t Dr. King’s dream, but it’s a start,...
View ArticleWatched any Reality TV lately? Don't lie,
you did, for a minimum of ten minutes. And you felt much better about yourself afterwards.That’s the first function of reality TV: it reminds you that, no matter how stupid or degenerate you might be,...
View ArticleGingrich Won the Debate. No, I'm not kidding
and no, he didn't win on substance.There's a reason why a vulture at Waterloo couldn't look happier than Newt does these days, a reason why he wears the smile of one convinced he is both above all laws...
View ArticleWillie Nelson Joins Occupy With
with this piece for Reader Supported News:Occupy the Food System Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there's a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the great...
View ArticleUpdated: Deep Issues with Bradley Manning Defense
This is a slightly updated version of a diary I posted yesterday, but would like to republish now, as Sunday is not a great time to post. I think the issue merits the attention. If this kind of...
View ArticleTactical Suggestion for Encampments
Set up Nativity scenes.No, I'm not kidding. Real ones, not satires, and not with protesters sitting in for the religious figures. This would serve as a visual reminder to the right that the savior...
View ArticleFinally, a Wise Society
Just for a moment, follow the bouncing neurons through a few sentences of philosophical history:It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth...
View ArticleSerious Blush Time for the Wazoo
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the gift subscription and the recs, tips, republishes and plugs for "Finally A Wise Society.' Feels great, and I hope to earn it and pay it forward.But credit...
View ArticleThe Real Meaning of Iowa
won't be the final trifecta, because Romney will take the eventual nomination.The real question for this primary and for all the others is: who will campaign all the way to the convention, even when...
View ArticleThe Kid with the Racist Sign
in Kos' latest diary, Republicans want a united America! As long you're white, male and rich,looks young to me. Even if he isn't, he has counterparts at rallies who are pre-teens or younger, carrying...
View ArticleLearning from Norquist
This was originally going to be a comment on the allways-thoughtful jamess' post, When are we going to start calling it the Norquist Economy? but as I wrote it, I felt like sharing it with all.I...
View ArticleUS-Iran Tension Spreading Worldwide
Before Going on to the post below, note this except from US Congress' Joint Economic Committee's Report Iran's Oil and Gas Wealth: Fifty-six percent of Iran’s oil exports are to Asia and 29 percent to...
View ArticleThe Wazoo is Sorry. REALLY sorry
-to have been away. Good Lord, I take my finger off the pulse of the nation for a relative second and Rick Santorum moves from Republican outlier to front-runner. Mia copa, folks.If anyone saw this...
View ArticleThe Song of Wrongs: A Limerepic for 2012
cassandracarolina just held a fun post contest with her post GOP Insanity Driving You Nuts? Chill Out with our Indigo Kalliope Political Limerick Challenge!! Check it to see to see your Kossacks at...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Attention: Alliteration Award Awaits! Act Ably, All.
Welcome back to the online Kossack poetry slam! Following up on cassandracarolina's recent (and guffaw-inducing) limerick contest, we will now have a round of similarly rule-bound and...
View ArticleBig Picture: Limbaugh's Problems Unimportant
Yes, he has lost some popularity and revenue, but he is essentially a purveyor of a very popular line of goods facing the PR challenge of a product recall. There are plenty of others willing to take up...
View ArticleThe Pentagon's Power to Persuade
Jack the Ripper got more headlines than infant mortality in his heyday. But I'm willing to bet the latter took more lives than Red Jack did over the course of his career.Action is more vivid and...
View ArticleLaughable Leap into the Gender Gap
Teagan Goddard's Political wire today features two stories that indicate the Republicans have made a huge strategic error, or at least that the combination of anti-contraception pandering and...
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