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President Obama In Brazil, MishMash, Photos, Photos and More Photos
Crossposted from The People's View More photos of President Obama's visit in Brazil below the mishmash that includes the President's Op-Ed, a great article on the President's approach on Libya by...
View Article**News Flash From the States**
**News Flash** Not to be outdone by Utah’s naming of the Browning 1911 as its official state firearm, Wyoming’s legislature announced today that Anthrax has been named the official state disease.
View ArticlePrivatized Libraries!
Will the conservatives try to privatize libraries as well? I've seen a growing trend in conservative lead governments to privatize public utilities and services. My mother is a social worker who works...
View ArticleHaze Gray's Blueshirt Blues; music video from Wisconsin
In an earlier diary of mine, I referred to a co-worker of mine named Haze. Haze will tell you that one of his hobbies is "playing bad harmonica". Actually, he's pretty good; No Sonny-Boy Williamson,...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 292
A huge amount has happened since the last issue. The disaster in Japan, the expanding Republican anti-Union jihad and the progressive backlash, and the international action in Lybia. Meanwhile I have...
View ArticleSoCal Windspill Sparks Huge Solar Radiation Leaks
Intrepid Kossack Jeff Lieber has been reporting live on the scene of a massive windspill in Southern California, where failed wind turbines are causing widespread panic. Now, reports are coming in...
View ArticleWhy are we not talking about Bradley Manning today?
Today I've seen a diary calling Obama for being shameful and for the Libyans to spill their own blood, I've seen diaries arguing over the "new war" in Libya. Frontpage stuff about Democrats not...
View ArticleAT&T Buying T-Mobile for $39 Billion
Well, I guess that's one way to get an iPhone on T-Mobile... Here’s the release with the details of the deal. AT&T will pay roughly $39 billion to Deutsche Telekom for T-Mobile USA. Deutsche...
View ArticleTotal Vanity: Commonmass Has Achieved His Goal!!
I have been on a quest to return to my college weight for about two years now. I have just attained that goal, and I am pretty darned satisfied with myself. I would like to share with the community...
View Article"Exodus International" iPhone App: a different approach
There is currently an app available in the iTunes store which is from Exodus International, an anti-gay organization which promotes the fallacious notion that you can cure homosexuality by praying it...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich channeled $125K to Hate Group targeting 3 Iowa Supreme Court...
Newt Gingrich gave the repulsive anti-GBLT hate group the American Family Association $1245,000 to target three Iowa Supreme Court Justices who voted in favor of GBLT equality, Chief Justice Marsha...
View ArticleROV 19: Japan Nuclear Disaster
Do not recommend this diary. If continued discussion of the situation is important to you, please recommend the Mothership instead so that it will stay in the Recommended list. This is another...
View ArticleBenghazi & 5th Column
Now the problem will be to keep Gaddafi's military from slipping into Benghazi (Saif boasts that this is plan B, C, etc.) and working with sympathizers to produce a 5th column...
View ArticleKosAbility: Diary of A Bad Quarter
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with...
View ArticleUprisings in Syria
About the series: Adalah ("justice" in Arabic) is a diary series about the Middle East, with special (but not exclusive) emphasis on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors of this series believe in...
View ArticleFukushima Status Update Summary
For those who missed my previous diaries on this topic, I have a background in physics and worked at Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station providing computer support for the reactor core engineering...
View ArticleProtests at Quantico for Bradley Manning
At least 3 maybe 4 thousand people came together to protest the treatment of Bradley Manning. Daniel Ellsberg was particularly poignant as he said that he wished he had done earlier, what he had...
View ArticleNorth Carolina SBI officials used criminal database improperly
Last year, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation came under fire for some ghastly practices. Agents frequently twisted evidence and used hoakum science in order to win convictions. For...
View ArticleLiberal War? How about just plain war.
Ross Douthat's latest column attempts to differentiate between Republican and Democratic politics via warfare. But does party matter, or is warfare politically neutral? DK's resident professional...
View ArticleThe American Century
[Note: This is a rather long essay I wrote a little less than one year ago about three books which related--in a "big picture" sense--to the state of the US. With help from two talented editors,...
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