What happened to me?
I know other people have it much worse than I do. At least I still have a place to live, for now. But what happened to me?I've stopped reading diaries like this one. They're too depressing. Today I...
View ArticleAnalysis: A Woman For Every John in the Republican Party
With a battle likely to come over a female Supreme Court nominee, I wondered how best to demonstrate how inhospitable the Republican Party is toward women. I was trying to find something new and...
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GRAPHIC: Images of tortured corpses rescued from memory hole
Recently, a photo of Manadel Al Jamadi has resurfaced as evidence of the approximately 100 detainees who have died in US military and CIA custody:This led me to wonder, where did all the others go? I...
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Another Hero Fired ... For Being Gay
Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach. F-15 fighter pilot. 18 years of service. Part of the initial alert crew on September 11. Flew combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. 88 combat missions. 2180 flying...
View ArticleRacism vs. Reality: Sotomayor in Context
Having just reduced the profundity of an Auschwitz tour down to a tweet, Newt Gingrich found it only natural to ponder and tweet further profound subject matter, such as the role of race in our...
View ArticleMajor Life Changes at Daily Kos
Can I suggest a recurring feature on Daily Kos? I've been here from the very beginning, but I'm terrible at keeping track of all the users and what's going on with them. What if there were a sort of...
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Nine straight months of job growth
The private sector has created job gains for each of the past nine months. GDP has been up for a full year now. So of course it comes as no surprise that the recession is over.Wait, hold that. It in...
View ArticleReince Priebus' horrific Obama/Osama statements
I don't want to put what Reince Priebus said in a headline. I don't want to write it at all, and fortunately his words are written in the video so I don't have to transcribe them. Here Reince Priebus...
View ArticleOnline Propaganda Army Pays Users to Post Comments
The 50 Cent Party is an officially acknowledged army of hundreds of thousands of Chinese web users paid by the Communist Party of China to "assert supremacy over online public opinion" by flooding the...
View ArticleBoycott Burger King, anti-American tax cheats
Burger King plans to avoid US taxes by pretending they're Canadian in a so-called "tax inversion," the Wall Street Journal reports. Tax inversions are where US companies buy a smaller foreign company...
View Article"Gays are full of murder" man gets 25-episode Christmas Day special on A&E -...
They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, god haters, they are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless, they invent ways of doing...
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