A beautiful day
Spring has sprung, The grass has riz, I wonder where the boidies is? It's a beautiful day here on the island of Manhattan, a balmy breezy 50° of sunshine. Green sprouts and a few violet petals are...
View ArticleBloggers UNITE!
By now we have all heard the rumors that Kos is going to be laying off most of the front-page bloggers. While outsourcing the front-page commentary to India may be economical, and we are today...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning: Whatever happened to...?
Spring is a time for looking ahead -- new hopes, new beginnings. But it is also a time for spring cleaning. Time to rifle through the junk drawer and see what falls out. Here's what fell out of mine:
View ArticleTechnostalgia Thursday: Listen up, Sonny!
Sonny, come here. That's right, sonny, sit down right there by my rocker. Now let me tell you a story... Back in my day, sonny, we didn't use these fancy internets to create strange online...
View ArticleNYTimes: US Illegally Jailing Arabs and Others
From the Irony Is Dead Department: The New York Times reports that the US is illegally jailing Arabs and others. However, apparently through editing errors, almost all occurrences of "United States"...
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Technostalgia Thursday: Outside the White House
Technostalgia Thursday: Outside the White House. No, not that White House, sonny! This white house:West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white...
View ArticleI woke up this morning and I couldn't see colors
Short fiction I wrote for myself. Read, respond, react as you like.
View ArticleWasn't that a mighty storm: Galveston 1900
Until this week the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. was the storm of September 8, 1900 in Galveston. The 1900 storm was weaker than Katrina; Galveston was less populated than New Orleans; and the...
View ArticleWhere's that famous Bush loyalty now?
"...George II was the drill instructor who taught the troops that the first -- and possibly only -- word in the Bush political vocabulary is 'loyalty.'"BusinessWeek, 1/11/02
View ArticleDon't Bother to Vote
"Don't bother to vote.""This election doesn't matter.""You've already lost." That is what everyone -- on-line, on the streets, in the New York Times -- is telling New Yorkers about tomorrow's mayoral...
View ArticleOT: Bloomberg has spent $50M so far
New York Times writes today that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg "has already spent nearly $50 million of his own money on his re-election campaign, according to campaign records released yesterday." Of...
View ArticleStem cell reform back-burnered to 2006
Q: When is a minority party Senator not in the minority?A: When he's Arlen Specter. Sen. Arlen Spector (R-PA) has tabled discussion of stem cell research restrictions until 2006, making it a guaranteed...
View Articledkos mapping project: Update
Little surveys of dKos user demographics pop up from time to time -- here's another one. I've set up a "dailykos" group on the Frappr website. Frappr is a tool to map the locations of groups of people...
View ArticleBlueprint for America: Withdraw From Iraq Now
With the Republican majority leader of the Senate under investigation, the Republican majority leader of the House indicted, the Republican chief of staff of the Vice President indicted, and other...
View ArticleGreed and Complacency: Blades can be carried on planes again
After the September 11th attacks, I didn't think we were ever going to fly again -- at least not the way we used to. No carry-ons, nothing in your pockets seemed like a good start. I was stunned to...
View ArticleTRANSCRIPT: Confirmation hearings with the Devil himself
SPECTER: First, let me congratulate you on your distinguished record and nomination to the Supreme Court, and welcome you and your family to this hearing, Devil. LUCIFER: Thank you. SPECTER: I'll begin...
View ArticleJudiciary committee walk-out?
Judiciary committee rules:QUORUMS 1. One-third of the membership of the Committee, actually present, shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of discussing business. Eight members of the Committee,...
View ArticleHigh blood-pressure of words, anemia of deeds
In recognition and honor of Dr. King's legacy, and in recognition of the rough road that lies ahead of us before we attain the ideals he set forth, I invite you to drown out the daily babble of...
View ArticleMy hat's off to you
Last week, I was one of the folks who thought the filibuster was not worth fighting for. Alito was a shoo-in: the right said so, of course; the traditional media and centrists said so; and to be blunt...
View ArticleUnitary Executive in NYC: No rights for gays
New York City is a city of dreams. We dream that our mayor is "really a Democrat." We dream that he respects civil rights. We dream that our mayor doesn't have to walk the GOP party line. The dreams of...
View ArticleBushWatch: C-in-C AWOL. Again.
"Make no mistake about it, we are at war." --Commander-in-ChiefGeorge W. Bush 30 people were killed this morning, and 140 more people were killed since Wednesdday in the war in Iraq....
View ArticleBushWatch: Excuses
(with apologies to Shel Silverstein.) (and Iraqis. also, New Orleans.) (oh, and apologies to James Whittington.) (and the entire world. And our great-grandchildren.)...
View ArticleBushWatch: "Let's don't play games"
On a Friday afternoon two weeks ago President Bush was not hunkered in his war room with his chiefs of staff, keeping America safe from terrorists. As an improvised bomb in a mosque near Baghdad...
View ArticleIt's time for a privacy amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Our "right to privacy" is an amalgam of protections in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th Amendments, plus judicial interpretation. It is not spelled out. Now, we have a Supreme Court unfriendly...
View ArticleThe Case Against Immigrants
Cross-posted from TNH When George Bush announced Monday that he would spend nearly $2 billion dollars to prevent immigrants from entering the country, liberals had a knee-jerk reflex to oppose the...
View ArticleBushWatch: What We Don't See on TV
[Promoted by DHinMI] President George W. Bush raised nearly half a million dollars for Representatives Jim Gerlach and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania last Wednesday at a $1000-per-ticket fund-raiser....
View ArticleDe-Triangulating the Right
Ann Coulter's book, Godless, released this week, has already prompted at least 57 diaries here, at least 7 just today. Several diaries vilified her claims and her character (some using unacceptable...
View ArticleYour Words FP'ed on NYTimes.com
A Lamont victory tonight is a nice milestone for political organizing by internet. But it's also worth marking another milestone, in the way that we're seeing primary day covered. If you go to...
View ArticleBushWatch: Get Back to Work
Last Thursday, the arrest of a terrorist cell in Britain prompted headlines of "Mass murder on an unimaginable scale." Thousands of Israeli troops waited at the Lebanese border for orders to cross into...
View ArticlePETA crosses the line
Charles Roselli, a biologist at Oregon Health & Science University, turned on his computer the other day to find that he had been targeted. His research had been lied about, and his reputation...
View ArticleThe path to stem cells lies through Missouri
Lost somewhere among the polling, celebrity advertisements, and talk-radio blowhards sits a ten-year-old diabetic. Lost somewhere among the debates, the donations, the down-to-the-wire phone banks...
View ArticleRepublican ABCs
As The New Yorker writes this week, "The great bafflement of next week's midterm congressional elections is that there is even a sliver of a hint of a shadow of a doubt about the outcome... That the...
View ArticleProving Bush's Irrelevance: Veto Override
Last month I argued the path to stem cells lies through Missouri. The election results there would decide whether we would be able to override Bush's veto on stem cell research.We won both the...
View ArticleLibya: "We need more nurses to kill"
This week, a symposium opens in Tripoli meant to bring new resources and workers to build Libya's infrastructure. One of its aims is to improve hospital care.This week, six health care workers who...
View ArticleWhat would President Bush say to Ramon Perez?
"[The Torture Provision] must be construed as not applying to interrogations undertaken pursuant to [the President's] Commander-in-Chief authority...if executive officials were subject to prosecution...
View ArticleA wolf in gay sheep's clothing: Corruption at the London Times
This week the Sunday Times of London published a pack of lies so transparent, so thoroughly discredited, that its appearance can't be chalked up to mere journalistic sloppiness. Rather, the timing of...
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The "Mad Scientist" frame and the stem cell vote
This is Kate. She is the niece of dailykos user noweasels (who gave me permission to share her story and photo here). Kate has juvenile diabetes, and hopes stem cell research will someday fix...
View ArticlePresident Bush on Breast Cancer
Last week, President Bush signed into law a reauthorization of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, an admirable health program that helps pay for breast cancer screenings...
View ArticleNIH funding should be slow, steady, sustainable
A little over a year ago, I wrote a piece at The Next Hurrah called "So what's wrong with doubling the NSF budget anyway?," where I argued that plans to double the National Science Foundation's budget...
View ArticleWill Democrats help stem cell research?
Are Congressional Democrats really going to support stem cell research, or were stem cells simply a political device for the campaign trail? We have seen that stem cell research is a useful political...
View ArticleHealthcare research: Ask your Congresspeople where they stand
This is a community action project: Go to http://yourcongressyourhealth.org Search for your Congresspeople and Senators If they have not yet completed the 15 question survey about their views on health...
View ArticleThe Six Stages of Political Grief
Following Saturday night's Constitutional shred-a-thon, climaxing in the passage of the FISA bill legalizing six months of warrantless wiretaps on domestic communications, I was stunned and appalled....
View ArticleBushwatch: Unbuilding America
"Maybe I'm missing something here. I mean, we're going to have kind of a nation-building corps from America? Absolutely not."George W. Bush, October 11 2000Currently, the Department of Defense has...
View ArticleProject Runway premiere: open thread
I've got to admit, I've pretty much stopped reading this site.It used to be great for a 5, 10, 15... 25... minute break from work, but lately I find that by the time the 18th YouTube video loads, my...
View ArticleThe Only Issue is (Still) Iraq
A month ago there was a spate of "sky is green" articles claiming that Iraq is no longer the most important issue for voters:Iraq War Fades as an Election Issue (NPR, Dec 6) Pocketbook issues push past...
View ArticleOde to the Undecided Voter
Who are you undecided jerkswho know not where you standwho in political shadows lurkand never show your hands?Are you so indecisive?Or just uninformed?I mean all due respect, butreally, it's no way to...
View Article100 things Congress could do that matter more than steroids in baseball
The House spent some quality time this week with Roger Clemens at hearings that occupied both the attention of Representative Henry Waxman's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as well as a...
View ArticleObama does best where Kerry did worst
or, "Who has won 'the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party'?"This post begins with a hypothesis: that Obama's wins have been bigger in red states than in blue states. It was based on the...
View ArticleSpringing Ahead: Iraq Spending Down 5% Today
In a report today that may signal new promise for the pro-war campaign of Senator John McCain, the State Department has released figures showing a decrease in US spending in Iraq of 1/24th, or nearly...
View ArticleStem cells: Take action *TODAY* to end Bush legacy
In less than one year, stem cell researchers will begin to tap into the $30 billion per year NIH budget that President Bush has locked away from them since 2001. The battle will be over. We will have...
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