The Second Opinion (a parable)
Once upon a time, there was a guy named Uncle Sam. Like all of us, he had his faults--he could be a bit arrogant, selfish, shortsighted, or oblivious at times, but his heart was (mostly) in the right...
View ArticleATTN: No Freakin' Clue voters
OK....we're getting close to the early primary season. I've been neutral all year, and with less than a month to go, now I feel like I really ought to start thinking about the candidates. What follows...
View ArticleLook At The Bright Side, Kossacks
My Friends, I've come to the conclusion that we're being too hard on Messrs. Bush & McCain, and we've gotten too practiced in our half-empty vision of America. In fact, I don't think we give them...
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Kansas City Obama rally pix
Not much insight or really even commentary in this diary, but I wanted to get some photos up quickly. (If you're on dialup, consider yourself warned....)After speaking to 100K+ (including family and...
View ArticleOpen Question for the RKBA folks
(Apologies in advance if this is well-trodden ground by now. I've been busy for much of this past year and haven't spent much time on Big Orange.)In the aftermath of the Tuscon massacre, we are faced...
View ArticleROV #7--Japan Nuclear Crisis
Do not recommend this diary. Please recommend the Mothership instead.This is another clearinghouse diary for discussion and commentary about the ongoing nuclear disaster(s) in Japan. Previous diaries...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh *Is* the Republican Party
Der Limbaugh is finally, finally, at long last, getting at least a tiny taste of his richly-deserved comeuppance. But why now? I've been wondering why this didn't happen sooner. Why now?How did he...
View ArticleOn Jumping To Conclusions
This is a reality-based community.When news broke late yesterday that the office of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) had been attacked by a man who threw molotov cocktails at the door, a...
View ArticleRepeating the question
The gun lobby has won the battles. They've gotten the policy regime they want.The onus is on them to make some sort of token effort to address the problem of random massacres. To aid in wrapping the...
View ArticleGo Be Happy To Be Alive/Against Spam
An entirely earnest suggestion for DK5: can the mojo algorithm possibly be tweaked to automatically time-out someone who posts 100+ comments in 3 hours in the same thread?I was going to wade into that...
View ArticleGHW Bush Sounds Off; Peak Popcorn Approacheth
Not going to be much of a diary. I just saw this NYT article and didn't see a discussion thread. [EDIT: try this link instead. Hopefully the Seattle Times doesn't have a paywall policy....]In a...
View ArticleBREAKING: E-Mail Leak From Major Panamanian Money Laundering Firm
I saw this mentioned in OND and was so startled I didn’t even bother to finish the OND yet (sorry). I didn’t see anything else on DK about this, so I wanted to just get this out there....
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