On the ground in Keene, NH: Report
An hour and a half on damp New England roads got me and a few friends across the state lines and into Keene, NH on the trail, for what should become something of a Saturday tradition until we get...
View ArticleTerrorists pay Bush, Kerry has them arrested
I'm not the best-informed person to comment on this, but I think it's something that's been ignored in this campaign season, and I'm hoping that Kerry's just waiting for the right moment to haul it...
View ArticleHead to Head Journalism: Sports vs. Politics
Now, so far this is just a lightly researched impression, but I think that sports journalism in this country, on a mainstream level, is significantly more insightful, probing, and less obsessed with...
View ArticleThe Kerry/Edwards 2004 Victory Mix
Calling all Kossacks - it is time to assemble the Official Kerry/Edwards 2004 Victory Mix (if you couldn't tell from the title.) This isn't what we play at midnight Election Day to celebrate a...
View ArticlePro-Lifers for Dems '08
I've been thinking about this a lot over the past few days, after Sen. Kerry's comments on how we need to be more inclusive, and it all comes back to the essential contradiction - how can we be a big...
View ArticlePodcasting - Marginally OT
Well, thanks to this month's issue of Weird...er...Wired, I finally discovered what I'm sure many of you have been enjoying for quite some time now: Podcasting. To briefly update the rest of you,...
View ArticledKos Sex Ed
Reading over the abstience front-pager by Plutonium Page (excellently written, by the way), I thought that it might be worthwhile to try and write our own curriculum, or at least try to put together a...
View ArticleWhen They Come for the Jews
This is well inspired by Bob's fantastic diary and the resulting discussion, but it's thoughts I've definitely been tossing about in my head for a while anyway. Anyway, this is what I see happening,...
View ArticleThe Gaza Pullout
First off, I'm sorry if this topic has been done to death already and I just haven't noticed. Now that I have a real job, I can't check Kos quite as compulsively as I've grown accustomed to. That...
View ArticleDavid Brooks, um, gets it?
I saw this article in the Times today, and I really can't quite believe what it seems to mean: that David Brooks, BoBo extraordinaire is commenting on the racial and class-based ramifications of the...
View ArticleWar Porn - Humanity Breakdowns in the US Army
From the online edition of the Nation:...this site [nowthatsfuckedup.com] has taken the concept of user-created content to a grim new low: US troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan are invited to...
View ArticleTeen Sexuality and the New York Times
I'm including below the e-mailed result of a conversation about a New York Times article in today's paper. http://www.nytimes.com/... I don't mean this to be construed as taking the issues in the...
View ArticleHostile Environment for Atheists?
I wanted it all to go away once I spotted the diary haranguing us all that the Bible was fiction and Jesus was a myth. But hundreds of comments later, well, here we are, and the merits of that diary...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Being Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel
Not all criticisms of Israel are anti-Semitic. Many critics of Israel, even on Daily Kos, are anti-Semitic. Many critics who are called anti-Semites, aren't. So, now that I've backed us officially into...
View ArticleThe End of the LIFEBeat Fiasco
LIFEBeat cancelled a heinously homophobic concert, and blamed it on "potentially violent" gay-rights activists. And they're AIDS activists. Major hat tip to Pam Spaulding http://pandagon.net/... To...
View ArticleHow Could People Not Believe in Global Warming?
It boggles the mind, doesn't it. That the American people, who aren't the best educated in the world, granted, but still a pretty bright bunch of folks, could somehow doubt the conclusions of every...
View ArticleElection Night Plans: New York City
All right - nothing too special here, but I'm looking for two things: 1.) Help and tips for planning an election night party. 2.) A bar in New York City that'll show CNN and have wi-fi for me to...
View ArticleEdwards Hires Pandagon Blogger
If I may offer a humble opinion, Amanda Marcotte is one of the finest bloggers in the whole Left sphere. Brilliant, funny, spot-on liberal: a real asset on her side. Apparently ,I'm not the only one...
View ArticleAmanda Marcotte Resigns
It's a shame, really, that after a victory for the bloggers, Amanda has felt obligated to resign. I don't blame her for a second - I just wish that it had all worked out. Here's her home blog statement:
View ArticleEasterbrook Evangelizing on Page2
Oh, Gregg Easterbrook. Somehow returning to ESPN after being fired for calling the Weinstein greedy, corruption-peddling Jews, he writes this gem of a "sports column":http://sports.espn.go.com/...If...
View ArticleOh, Redstate. You just don't like democracy on principle, huh?
So, as the votes came in last night in Washington State, a very curious thing happened. They stopped counting them and called the election for McCain. Now, I'm not talking about your usual network...
View ArticleThat's it, we've won the election
In 2000, the voters preferred Al Gore on the issues. Just about every issue: his stance on taxes. His stance on social security. His stance on the budget surplus. However, when they went into the...
View ArticleRoma (Gypsies) in Italy: Situation Worsening
We have a problem in the United States. Our government has spent the past eight years or so acting in a manner that an honest, independent observer would describe as "borderline-fascistic." Definitely...
View ArticlePlanning Your Night: An Election Night Timeline
I realized I've been having a number of conversations about how election night is actually going to go, ranging from whether or not I can sneak in the gym between work and a party, to who should plan a...
View ArticleWhat "Concern Troll" Means
All right gang. Everybody's a little on edge. A little tense, a little nervous. Jumpy, antsy, snippy. Heck, even our nation's Supermommy, Sarah Palin, couldn't help but make a sarcastic little snip...
View ArticleHey, the '09 Appropriations Bill Passed
With a 62 vote support team, the 2009 budget has passed Congress and will be put to President Obama for a signature. There were 11 total crossover votes in the Senate - 3 Ds that gave it up: Bayh,...
View ArticleSexting Story at CNN Disastrously Misses the Point
All right, here's the latest sexting story from those hard working folks at CNN.com, who make sure that no real news manages to make it to the front page:http://www.cnn.com/...But they've suckered me...
View Article"The Future is Bad For You," Says the Past
Thank you CNN.com.Crossposted at my blog.Science reporting at its, uh, finest. Twitter is bad for you? It’s what CNN is pitching. The headline on the CNN.com mainpage attributes this finding to...
View ArticleInside the DHS Report on Right Wing Terror
Crossposted at http://mrbillingham.blogsome.comWith all the buzz about the DHS report - including Gingrich flailing about that it's about Obama's conspiracy to arrest all conservatives - I thought it...
View ArticleMonday Afternoon Fallacy: No True Scotsman
The No True Scotsman Fallacy is on display this week in the American right, as they seize up in a burst of rage against the DHS report saying that returning Iraq veterans could be recruited into white...
View ArticleJohn McCain, Still a Jackass
Bloviating away about how horrible it is that the Department of Homeland Security could EVER, EVER dare to consider the possibility that a returning veteran could be a criminal, or be affiliated with a...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh is Extremely Zipping Insane
Sorry to be mooching off of a front page post, but I had a lot of thoughts on this thing and I've condensed my rant here.We're really talking about a culture-war issue here rather than a national...
View ArticleReligion, Pork, and Swine Flu
Okay, with stories out of Muslim Egypt and Jewish Israel about swine flu, I wrote up some musings about the intersection between religious dietary laws and this disease that emanates from that...
View ArticleThursday Afternoon Misogyny in the Media
All right, a few things here that don't necessarily go together, but they all came across my screen on the same day, so let's look them over:
View ArticleFriday Night: What Are You Writing About?
Hi y'allI've been working for about a month getting my blog up off the ground, and I thought that there are probably a lot of aspiring bloggers out there in the Kos community. So if you all think it's...
View ArticleSteele: Our voters are bigots
So, while hosting Bill Bennett's radio show, Michael Steele decided to respond to a caller's endorsement of Mitt Romney. Rather than add basic platitudes of support, or otherwise have kind words for...
View ArticleGender and Global Warming
In the light of this post from The Intersection, I wanted to write for a little bit on the way that environmentalism interacts with the culture war generally, and the gender edge of it...
View ArticleMcCain vs. the Minuteman: AZ-SEN 2010
Ho ho ho ho boy. John McCain, you've drawn yourself a primary challenger:Chris Simcox, a leading figure in the nativist extremist movement, has resigned as leader of the vigilante group Minuteman...
View ArticleThe Dogwhistles Sending the Pitbulls After Sonia Sotomayor
Well, the long knives are coming out from the recesses of the Republican Party, while, luckily, their actual delegation in the United States Senate appears willing to keep their objections to a big...
View ArticleReligion and Violence
I've been musing on this a lot in the past few days, and I'd like to know what people think here. I’m still thinking this through, but I’ve seen a lot of "These people aren’t Christians!" arguments...
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For Jews everywhere, I'd like to Thank Fred Phelps for adding us to the List
God doesn't just hate fags anymore! Fred Phelps, notable lunatic in charge of the Westboro Baptist Church, has decided to take his show on the road and switch the target from gays and lesbians to...
View ArticleThomas, Souter, and Strip Searches
Adding on to Adam B's front page diary, I wanted to add some thoughts and select out some additional quotes.The settled law is that you can no longer order a strip search of teenage girls for ibuprofen...
View ArticleNRO on Madoff: Give Him a Break
Oh please, 2012 candidates and Republicans of all stripes, take up this cause! Listen to Eli Lehrer of your favorite right-wing website, the National Review Online!Yes, Mr. Lehrer is taking the side...
View ArticlePalin and Ethics
I just want to call attention to one portion of her speech today - where she decided to talk about ethics.If she's trying to play this off as an attempt to show character by sparing Alaska a long,...
View ArticleDMV Health Care? That's Not My Government
That's a line of rhetoric that we've heard a lot from the right wing lately. Here's a random example. And we hear it over and over again: government can't do it. It'd end up a huge mess because...
View ArticleThe New White Power Hannah Montanas
Prussian Blue seems to have called it quits on their music career, but White Power teenyboppers now have a new act to follow: Heritage Connection!Charity and Shelby Pendergraft, Arkansas teenagers,...
View ArticleRepublican War on Service
A big hat tip here to Jesse Taylor at Pandagon here, who reminds us the Republicans are always going to be so far ahead of us in the insane rantings department, it's a wonder we decide to leave it up...
View ArticleFootball, Gregg Williams, and Objectification
Gregg Williams paid his players to injure opponents. Direct hits to the head, neck, and knees, by players carrying an amount of force similar to an automobile. This tears ligaments, breaks bones, and...
View ArticleIron Closet: Gay in Russia
I want to start by crediting Dave in Northridge for this diary. I've been on alert for the article he references to show up on GQ's website, and now it has.Read the whole, terrifying thing.
View ArticleThe Wars we Choose and How We Fight Them
ISIS/ISIL/IS are major bad guys. They're among the worst in the world. But they don't stand alone there: North Korea, Boko Haram, Seleka in the Central African Republic, Al Qaeda in the Islamic...
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