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Overnight News Digest: "" Edition
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest (OND) for Tuesday, April 19, 2011. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a...
View ArticleCountry Music: Good old style
I've always had a weakness for country music, although I know not everyone shares my tastes for it. For me the songs below are true classics. I do not get much into the modern pop-country, though....
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Insomniacs' Vent Hole with Craig Ferguson.
Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician. SPOILER WARNING: A latenight gathering for non-serious palaver that does not speak of that night's show. Posting a...
View ArticleOil Co's Were Negotiating w/UK, US Gov't's Over Iraqi Oil One Year BEFORE...
"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know." --Harry S. Truman This evening, we're hearing of a breaking story from across the pond, courtesy of Great Britain's Independent,...
View ArticleA Perfect Conversation: New Features!
Okay. As you probably know from my sig, I'm also a KosBuster. And last weekend while I was busy doing things outside the GOS, a new update went through that I missed. In that update, we got a nifty...
View ArticleIf Only the Benton Harbor Story Was So Simple
My friends... ...we need to talk about Benton Harbor, Michigan. The city we've heard a lot about lately in terms of Michigan Republican Governor Snyder's new "Financial martial law" because of the...
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Campfire Stories w/ Steve and Fripp
Live! Right Now! Tue. 10-11pm Left Kos time! On the radio! We're talkin' Fripp with the ladies and... well, pretty much whatever you're talkin' about tonight on DK4. So, give us a call at:...
View ArticleBoth Parties Are Asleep At The Wheel
Cross-posted at The American Way. Why is it so difficult to have political conversations? I feel stuck in a box here. I am trying to be non-partisan, trying to create dialogue, trying to create a...
View ArticleIn the Spirit of Love: I Just Gave a Gift Subscription to Someone Who HR'd Me
I am not liking the free-for-all when it comes to community moderation. So I am guilty of getting into some pie fights lately. Heck, someone who didn't like my take on a certain subject--a person with...
View ArticleIrreverence and being a good Kos'r
Tonight we go off-beat and take a look upon good days gone by, those to come, along with banter and hyperbole of who we are and the joys of any given day. What qualifies as good Kossing?...
View ArticleThe Cure for Plutocracy: Strike!
How do you get politicians living off legalized bribery to criminalize bribery? How do you persuade the corporate media to report on the interests of flesh-and-blood, non-corporate people? How do you...
View ArticleAMERICAN ARCHETYPE PART SEVEN
I said at the opening of this series that I don't believe anything Priscilla Grinder said about the night that Meriwether Lewis died, and here is why. In all three versions of her stories, she claims...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Wed. - Deepwater Horizon anniversary - 30k FOIA docs - BP...
Topics: Just released: 30k pages of BP oil spill documents. Help us find out what we've got!, Leaked: 30,000 BP oil spill memos, emails and transcripts, BP Voted “Worst Company in America”, A year...
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1st U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Fully GREEN-Lighted
I'm not sure how this slipped under the radar, but on Tuesday, the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound cleared its final hurdle -- the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement...
View ArticleRahm wants to hire a bigot!
Can the Chicago Board of Education Legally Hire Brizard? The Federal Government Finds Rahm Pick for CEO Discriminates Against Employees A preliminary investigation of Chicago's mayor-elect Rahm...
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Chronic Tonic: Truth, The Real Public Option (republished)
CHRONIC TONIC posts on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST, it is a place to share stories, advice, and information and to connect with others with chronic health conditions and those who care for them. Our...
View ArticleFavorite movie scenes
Today is my birthday and I wanted to thank everyone here and on FB that wished me a happy 42nd birthday. I thought how to make a diary to thank everyone and so I decided to focus in on movies and the...
View ArticleNashville Actor in "RENT" replaced because he was discovered HIV Positive?...
From The Nashville Examiner we get what appears to be a lovely bit of HIV-related discrimation. Byron Rice has just been dismissed from the Nashville Dinner Theatre production of RENT, allegedly over...
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