Our government is broke. Why don't you give up your 401(k)?
Since 2008 the economy has been in freefall. and thanks to the bailout of the big Wall Street banks, the auto industry, and high unemployment, the federal and state deficits have ballooned out of...
View ArticleAnd then they expect you to pick a career...
I was watching the nightly news a couple of nights ago, and I came across a segment which sort of bothered me. While these programs are pretty valuable for getting young people ready to join the...
View ArticleFavorite songs: Labor Day "We Built That" edition
My apologies to poligirl and her regular favorite music diaries, but since this is Labor Day weekend, I thought it would be a good idea to do a music diary celebrating this holiday dedicated to the...
View ArticlePlease don't vote for President Obama on November 6th...if you don't have to
OMG! Before you freak out and think I've gone to the dark side (GOP) and are trolling for Mitt Romney, I'm just stating that we should take advantage of the early voting deadlines. You can vote for...
View ArticleUpdate on Mitt Romney's "zinger" strategy
As we are now on the eve of the first Presidential debate, Mitt Romney is struggling to connect with voters and is trailing in the polls. So he plans on distracting and upending President Obama by...
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Why RGIII and the Redskins must win today
Hey all Kos football Fans. I think it's absolutely essential to show some love for Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins as they host the Carolina Panthers today. Our very future may hinge...
View ArticleMusings and thoughts on the War on Thanksgiving
No one wants to admit it, except maybe the crazies at Fox News, but there really is a War on Thanksgiving. The holiday is supposed to be a celebration of the survival and bountiful harvest of the...
View ArticleFavorite songs: End of days edition
Unless you've been living under a rock, you have probably heard anything and everything related to the Mayan calendar prophecy which states that tomorrow marks the end of the world. Of course,...
View ArticleExtreme weather update
Yikes! I'm not a huge fan of cold weather in the winter, but I hate extreme weather even more. Yesterday, my hometown of Rockford, Illinois, just 75 miles northwest of Chicago, was in the middle of an...
View ArticleGod made a (Latino) farmer
There's been a huge amount of buzz and discussion taking place over the Dodge Ram Super Bowl ad that featured the classic radio voice of Paul Harvey addressing the Future Farmers of America in 1978...
View ArticleJon Stewart to take a sabbatical from The Daily Show
This just in: Jon Stewart is scheduled to be taking a break from his hosting duties of The Daily Show to direct a movie from a script he wrote. The film is called "Rosewater," which is adapted from...
View ArticleAbout those overswamped Veterans and other government agencies
There's been a lot of news lately about the failure of some of our government agencies to perform their proper duties due to backlogs, incompetence, and sometimes even "scandalous" targeting of...
View ArticleSo we went to war in Iraq to benefit...China?
According to the New York Times, it appears the biggest beneficiary of the post-Iraq War oil boom is China.China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil BoomThe article states that China is already...
View ArticleWhy Edward Snowden, Anthony Weiner, the Mayor of San Diego, and the Royal...
I was going to title this diary, "Why Edward Snowden, Anthony Weiner, the Mayor of San Diego, and the Royal Baby can all go to Hell!" but I didn't want people to think I was really having bitter, evil...
View ArticleBanned from the Super Bowl: a look at commercials
We're only a week away from the biggest sporting event of the year in the USA, and while some wonder whether Peyton Manning will cement his legacy as possibly the greatest quarterback to ever play...
View ArticleBREAKING: Putin asks Russian parliament for military intervention in Ukraine
It appears the crisis in the Crimean section of Ukraine is amping up big time. Russian president Vladimir Putin is asking his parliament for authorization to use military force in Ukraine.Link
View ArticleMichael Sam drafted by St. Louis Rams
It took nearly to the end of the seventh and final round of this year's NFL Draft, but Michael Sam, the 2013 SEC co-Defensive Player of the Year from the University of Missouri and the first openly gay...
View ArticleFavorite songs: Gun violence edition
Someone diaried last night about the lack of music threads on DKos recently, so I thought I's come up with one for people to ponder. Unfortunately, gun violence has become all too common in the USA,...
View ArticleThe extremist religious caliphate threatening the freedom of Americans
When I got home from work yesterday, I turned on NBC Nightly News, and their lead story was about the Sunni extremist religious group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that has taken...
View ArticleWorld on fire...or if President Obama had listened to the right wing echo...
The scene...a war torn Syrian village in tatters. Thousands of people dead or dying in the streets, many of them women and children being brutalized by militant forces. Splinter groups fighting to...
View ArticleWhy The Interview may be the most important, groundbreaking film of the last...
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past six months, you probably are well aware of all the drama going on at Sony Pictures involving a very sophisticated hack of their computer network,...
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Elon Musk announces his new Powerwall project - a revolutionary breakthrough...
Renewable energy has been making great strides the past few years, as the supply of photovoltaic solar cells has increased dramatically while the cost of those cells has also dropped considerably. In...
View ArticleGenX: A History from the Dark Side (or Person of Color)
Earlier, someone posted a diary about their life experience as a member of Generation X, or GenX for short, called GenX: A History of White Cynicism. While I agree with much of the sentiment of the...
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A Modest Proposal for the GOP Debate
As most of us who have been following the news lately know, FOX news is hosting a presidential debate on August 6th featuring the top ten GOP candidates based on a combination of the most recent...
View ArticleDarkness in the heart of town
Well, everybody's got a secret, Sonny Something that they just can't face Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it They carry it with them every step that they takeTill some day they just...
View ArticleFavorite Songs: Labor Day edition
We are now celebrating another holiday today, which happens to be Labor Day. While we spend the days (or weeks) leading up to Christmas singing Christmas songs, and we may sing love songs to our...
View ArticleWhy I just don't feel the Bern...yet
A couple of weeks ago I was attending a local weekly city farmers market, and I was met by a couple of young enthusiastic volunteers for the Bernie Sanders campaign who were encouraging me to vote for...
View ArticleWhere the Democratic Primary may be decided
As we head into the final debate tonight before the actual primary contests take place in determining who will become the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, barring some...
View ArticleIt's the delegates, stupid!
Now that we’re on the verge of actually voting for the 45th President of the United States, I think this is an appropriate time to remind some people how the actual primary/caucus process works.When...
View ArticleWhy Bernie is poised to crush Hillary in the New Hampshire primary...yet may...
After the virtual tie in the Iowa caucus, the latest polling in the New Hampshire Democratic primary shows Bernie Sanders with a commanding lead over Hillary Clinton, and a whopping lead among young...
View ArticleWaiting on the world to change
I was out and about doing my usual routine earlier today, and while I was in a public place I overheard this little ditty from ten years ago over the speakers.xYouTube VideoI thought about this song in...
View ArticleMy Take on Electability, or What Should We Expect This Fall
A lot of ink and gigabytes of data have been poured out with regard to the Democratic primary and who is the more electable candidate for the general election this November. Since Nevada and South...
View ArticleAbout those New York City values....(a housing diary, not an election one)
Recently, the state of New York had its primaries, and Donald Trump won the Republican primary overwhelmingly over his opponents Ted Cruz and John Kasich. While Trump was widely expected to win the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Suspected gunman arrested in Los Angeles on way to LA Pride Festival
This is a developing story from the Los Angeles Times, but the LAPD has arrested a man who was heading to the LA Pride Festival with a car filled with explosives and several weapons. The man’s car had...
View ArticleAtlanta cop who fired at unarmed black man charged with murder
This is an update on the earlier police incident which was noted in this diary post a few days ago in which an Atlanta police officer allegedly responding to an incident involving a person breaking...
View ArticleRyan Lochte, Gabby Douglas, and the Perils of White Privilege
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been watching the Olympics these past two weeks and cheering on our Olympic athletes as they go for the gold in Rio de Janeiro. While most people have been quite...
View ArticleNFL ratings decline 12% this season; sign of the apocalypse?
I thought I’d post a diary which while thankfully not related to this presidential election or emails or billionaires groping women’s private parts is sort of a reflection on the state of the USA as of...
View ArticleNo love for the Peace Corps this 4th of July? A rant.
I wanted to take some time off of reading and writing stories of our Cheeto-hair-colored leader embarrassing himself and our nation as we approach the anniversary of our country declaring independence...
View ArticleNew book by Trump aide describes campaign chaos, Trump fast food binges
In a story featured in the Washington Post, former Trump campaign aide Corey Lewandowski chronicles the Trump presidential campaign and how even his most loyal aides have to work from crisis to crisis,...
View ArticleDead Mall Revisited
I wanted to take time out from the usual whirlwind of stories involving the current President of the United States and all of the drama associated with that to revisit a horrific crisis happening in...
View ArticleLabor Day 2019 Music Playlist
I wanted to post something different from the usual chaotic diaries of our current President embarrassing our nation on the world stage and being extraordinarily cruel to immigrants and people of color...
View ArticleCrypto-insanity, or Will the Global Economy Change Overnight?
I know there are a lot of critical issues facing this country, with an ongoing global pandemic and its after effects on the economy, a concerted push to restrict voting rights, particularly on people...
View ArticleProtecting the Rights of Clown Abortions
This will be a short diary, but I wanted to include a clip from last night’s Saturday Night Live episode that addressed the recent Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. In this clip...
View ArticleCOVID Reaches a Grim Milestone: One Million Dead in the USA
Just wanted to update a story that has been consuming this country for well over the past couple of years yet seems to have disappeared from the headlines, but this country has passed a grim milestone...
View ArticlePump It Up: A Possible Green Solution for Climate Change?
Right now it appears much of the planet is on fire, figuratively and literally. Wildfires are spreading across the western United States and in the Iberian peninsula in Europe, while at the same time...
View ArticleDepave Paradise
Much has been mentioned about TFG and his illegal acts and possibly being brought to justice, as well as the war in Ukraine, the overturn of Roe vs Wade, the ongoing attacks on civil rights on BIPOC...
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Brazilian Soccer Legend Pele has died.
This is a breaking story, as Pele, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three World Cup titles, has died at the age of 82 after suffering from colon cancer.www.cbsnews.com/…
View ArticleChatGPT - The Beginning of the AI Revolution?
I know most people have been focused on Christmas, the follies involving the election of the next Speaker of the House, and other things this past month, but I wanted to update people here on something...
View ArticleUpdate: UAW, GM reach a tentative agreement
On the heels of the tentative agreement with the Ford Motor Company, the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis to end the 44 day strike. The terms appear to be similar...
View ArticleOJ Simpson, former NFL Running Back and Accused Murder Suspect Acquitted at...
OJ Simpson, the former NFL running back, actor, and commercial spokesperson who was arrested for the murder of his ex-wife and an acquaintance but later acquitted of those charges, has died at the age...
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