Race and Class
The discourse after Katrina on how the response to the flooding of New Orleans indicate racism and neglect of blacks gives me a sad case of deja vu all over again. Deja vu because it contains some...
View ArticleA parenting issue we cannot ignore
Whenever Hillary or Lieberman bring up the issue of violent video games or internet controls, most of the comments on the Daily Kos run from snide "they don't get it" to "the're pandering to the...
View ArticleHow Bush can REALLY help Israel
In the last five and a half years Bush has shown an uncanny abiliby to weaken his allies and empower his opponents. Let's look. Allies Republican Party Tony Blair ex premier of Spain ex premier of...
View ArticleConservation of Catastrophe and the Global Economy
A few years ago, the historian William McNeill enunciated the law of Conservation of Catastrophe. The law states that solutions to one crisis lead the way for some equal or greater disaster in the...
View ArticleSome life will survive any surface condition
A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from...
View ArticleAn appeal - send $$ to Ron Paul
I have some dollars burning in my pocket, ready to be contributed -- where should I send them, where will I get the most bang for the buck?Hillary and Barak are overrun with cash, contributing to...
View ArticleThere Go the Fluorescent Bulb Savings
Several years ago, I replaced all my home’s commonly used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents (CFL.) I saw a noticeable decrease in my electric use and bills.A few months ago, I got Verizon’s...
View ArticleThis Guy Needs a Hazmat Suit
In Townhall.com, David Limbaugh writes a post where he tells his fellow McCain supporters that they should ignore the ranting commentators( including his brother Rush ) and work on bringing the...
View ArticleMcMansion slums with granite countertops
If anything symbolizes the mortgage disaster, it is whole neighborhoods of McMansions littered with abandoned house, some stripped of copper, sometimes sheltering squatters.What will happen to these...
View ArticleSave Birth Control for Low-Income Women
Planned Parenthood has a plea for help.Because of a technical error Congress made in 2005, the cost of birth control in many clinics is rising almost 900 percent from what it was just months ago. Women...
View ArticleIn Defense of Intelligent Design Adherents
Whenever the subject of Intelligent Design (ID) arises on DailyKos, the snarks come out. ID adherents and defenders are looked on as uncultured rubes, Neanderthals, and unlettered hicks. This is a...
View ArticleWatch out for Inflation!
Last week made implicit what has long been implicit, we, as individuals, as a country, and as a society are going to have our standard of living cut. This will hurt. There will be less inequality,...
View ArticleShock Doctrine bites back
Naomi Klein in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (The link contains links to 13 book reviews), documents how conservatives have used the shocks following crises to push...
View ArticleI stopped blocking ads
After three years of browsing with the Firefox advertising blocking extension, Adblock, I turned it off. This took some doing, as I enjoy the experience of browsing without annoying animated ads...
View ArticleTolerance for Dissent - Kos vs RedState
In The Moderate Voice, a blog I regularly read, Patrick Edaburn compares the tone and tolerance of two blogs, Kos on the left and Redstate on the right.I.. offer some critiques. Both sites have shown a...
View ArticleThank you, George W. Bush
We have discussed at infinitum the disaster that Bush is dumping into Obama's lap. What we have missed is the favors Bush has done for Obama.In foreign policy, after warning of disaster if Obama's...
View ArticleAuto bail-ins in the South
While Southern Senators are fuming against taxpayer subsidies to the big three, let's see what going on on their home turf.Good Jobs First has it down.As the U.S. automakers have downsized their...
View ArticleBuyer's remorse on Redstate
From a Redstate comment we have buyer's remorseKnow [now] that O is in the White House, I’m not sure I want the patriot act around anymore, since he’ll probably use it against Christians and other...
View ArticleRepublican collapse, hold the Schadenfreude
Everyone who hangs around DailyKos has immensely enjoyed the spectacle of the Republican party and the conservative movement imploding on itself. Who could not enjoy it, after eight years of numerous...
View ArticleIntelligent Design may be true
Most of us, when we are talking against placing intelligent design (ID) into the science curriculum are using the wrong argument.We say that is in not true and not proven. This no only frames it...
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