Gasland Ecology & the Planet Pyramid Scheme
Read this: http://www.alternet.org/... Then read this: http://www.businessweek.com/... You get that? The CEO of Chesapeake Energy makes $100 million bucks a year off of turning people's homes into...
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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 ArticleCanadian Judge Strikes Down Cannabis Laws (expanded)
What headlines don't detail is that this ruling appears to only apply to Ontario. In any case, however, the government has 90 days to respond or cannabis Prohibition is effectively stricken. [update:...
View ArticleWhy Collective Bargaining is Bad (a Liberal's Perspective)
I have been hearing progressives and liberals talking about the stripping of collective bargaining ever since it was attempted in Wisconsin. What shocks me the most is how liberals almost...
View ArticleA Perfect Conversation: The Lottery Exemption
I want to start by apologizing to citizen k. My use of his/her comment as a foil in yesterday's diary was in-artful to say the least. I can see in hindsight how it would be embarrassing and even...
View ArticleWSJ Reports and Knees Jerk
There have been a couple of diaries and one on the wreck list taking the WSJ at their word and proclaiming that Obama is caving yet again. I'm not sure if it is reading comprehension or knee jerk...
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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, grab your phone and call...
View ArticleCutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
This diary, like many others do, originated in a comment that became a novella. It was inspired by pkohan's diary, How much private sector employment is created by the public sector? Some private...
View ArticleI don't have a birth certificate, but don't tell Trump and the 'birthers' that.
I don't have a birth certificate. I cannot prove where I was born. Fact. I was born in a farmhouse in Prek Murje, Yugoslavia and I was delivered by my mother's cousin who was a midwife. Shortly...
View ArticleProgressive Radio "The Campfire with Steve and Fripp" on dBlog Radio
"The Campfire with Steve and Fripp" is on! Live! Right Now! Tues. 10:15-whenever pm Left Kos time! It's The Campfire Live! On the radio! We're talking pretty much whatever you're talkin' about:...
View ArticleThe Ethical Rift
"Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous...
View ArticleEveryone got played by the budget deal.
The right wing bloggers may well be angry and so are many on the left. In a bipartisan flurry in DC all but the top 1% got screwed by shared sacrifice. The plot so far: A flurry of "free" money was...
View ArticleTopping Off - with Poll
So, if you had to top off a really crappy day with one thing, what would it be? (see the poll for my answer) (not sure how many words I need to add here to make the diary code accept this as a diary)
View ArticleEntitlements
I was going to save this post until tomorrow but having been waken up by a phone call from my nephew who told me my car trunk was open and to make sure I didn't have anything important in the trunk, I...
View ArticleGranny Diaries: Pine Cones on the Stoop
Granny diaries / Number 6 in the Series Congressman Enurpakut came on the porch the other day asking for my vote. After he left, I bleached down the porch, railing, steps and sidewalk. Burned the...
View ArticleThe One About Even The Strongest Have A Breaking Point.
"It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps." — Martin Luther King Jr. There...
View ArticleObama and the art of advantageous losing
Republicans are just beginning to realize how they have been played... Charley Sheen, Donald Trump and Speaker Boehner are all winners, but the messaging coming into the extension of the debt ceiling...
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Bookflurries: Bookchat: Comfort Tales
Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and books on tape. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us. I have a shelf of comfort...
View ArticleCurrent Comedy 4/13/11: Godzilla Returns
Last year at Xmas, i thought i had written what would be my last column. It was good enough, a great place to stop.
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