I Won't Vote for Hillary Clinton
Or should I say Hillary McCain?If she is our candidate...I will vote for the Democratic candidates for other offices, and I will not vote for the Republican presidential candidate. I will leave the...
View ArticleThe Real Cause of High Oil
Guess what, it isn't demand in Asia. Supporters of the Bush Administration would like us to believe that, conservative Republicans everywhere would like us to believe that, but it ain't true.There is...
View ArticleThe Up Side of High Gas Prices
Every time I'm on the road with my little Cavalier, I am driving the smallest car on the road. No kidding, I'm the little prehistoric shrew surrounded by gigantic dinosaurs. Some the SUVs and trucks...
View ArticleAesop '08: Obama and McCain Buy Groceries
Obama needs to go to the grocery store. So does McCain.Many people are clustered around the store in Obama's neighborhood. "We can't afford to buy what we need," they tell Obama. Obama understands...
View ArticleAesop '08: Obama and McCain Take a Vacation
Obama has to take a break from the campaign. He hasn't spent time with his family in weeks. He and his wife decide to visit Rainbow Lake.McCain has heard about this. He thinks it's a great idea. He...
View ArticleThings Change In January
My mind has been flooded by all the different avenues of change open to the American people.First, let's take this financial crisis. It may be an attempt to crush Obama's plans for reform by saddling...
View ArticleReading Ready
Everything is nuance in human language. This is especially true of the written word. Certain words and phrases contain more than their naked meanings. There is an emotional weight to our word...
View ArticleHow did the little ones offend us?
A few days ago, Pedro Ramirez was in the news. He was mentioned in at least one diary here at dailyKos. Ramirez, who came to U.S. at the age of 3, said he did not know he was not a citizen until he...
View ArticleWhat book should Keith write?
Our favorite political commentator just lost his show. To add insult to injury, it's likely that he won't be back on TV for at least six months, or maybe even as long as two years. He should write a...
View ArticleAlien Eye: Public Theater Since 1917?
I have this alien eye in my head. It interferes with my ability to accept and ignore some human behaviors. It insists on highlighting the bizarre, the corrupt, and the stupid. Annoying beyond...
View ArticleAlien Eye: Gould Launch Cycle
My alien eye, and I wish I could pluck it out, leads me far astray, into back corners of the Internet. Here is one journey, that started out as a defense of the late Stephen Jay Gould and led into the...
View ArticleAlien Eye: Conservative Movie Mayhem
Lots of alien eyes online, alien eye, alieneye, alien-eye, alien eyes, my-alien-eyes, alien eye wear, several blogs on variations of the words. I didn't check alien eyesores, maybe I should have....
View ArticleThe Alien Eye: The Seven Destroyers
Gotta keep the alien eye well fed. That means reading a lot. Movies and TV, unless they're documentaries, just don't cut it. The alien eye gets a better bang for its buck by purchasing used books....
View ArticleAlien Eye: A Sad Conclusion
I just don't have the energy to list in detail the innumerable Bush policies and idiocy that continue under the Obama administration. Not only are we continuing the policies and behaviors initiated...
View ArticleTime to Get to Work
Gotta start working for victory. At present, I don't feel I'm able, in good conscience, to vote for Obama or give him any money (I definitely won't be giving my vote to the Repub candidate either -...
View Article"Danger, Will Romney! Danger!"
It only works once. What if Obama's lackluster performance in the last debate was caused in part by Romney's amazing lie-circus, by his re-invention of himself as a moderate Democrat for election...
View ArticleGood News for Modern Man: Latest Solar Power News - and a Kitty-Cat Story
It is time to turn away, if only for a few seconds, from the right-wing train wreck that is our country. Let us focus on good news for those few seconds. I consider advances in solar energy...
View ArticleAbout the debt limit - could someone explain this to me?
There's this...14th Amendment Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in...
View ArticleAnother Author Makes His Appearance
That would be me, though it is a little bit of a lie. Since I have been hanging around here for seven years - five years on this account - I thought it would be appropriate to announce the ebook...
View ArticleInspired by Upton Sinclair and a Toilet
I've been here since 2006, and I still haven't found a place for myself. Both in my first account, and after that one mysteriously stopped working, my second account. Haven't a clue, until I was...
View ArticleTimes Square Recruitment, 2008
The 2008 bombing of the Times Square Recruitment center is back in the news, though in a back-door kinda way. Jerry Koch was finally released from prison, kept there until now for his refusal to...
View ArticleThe proper way to withhold your vote
First, you have to vote. You have to either show up on election day or use an absentee ballot. Merely being lazy and not voting is NOT withholding your vote. You are a citizen of a democracy, even if...
View ArticleI think he means the Clintons
Thomas Frank's new article up at Salon...Once upon a time it was the dedicated champion of the interests of average people, but today Democrats are hemorrhaging the votes of the white working class....
View ArticleThe half-assed semi-progressive
That was my thought after reading this article:http://www.nytimes.com/..."Obama Proposes Free Community College Education for Some Students"!Except...
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