The Rube Goldberg Suicide Machine
When you have "rational actors" like Peter King suggesting Flight 370 was a suicide plot by the pilot or co-pilot....{High-pitched Jon Stewart voice}: You know you're in trouble.
View ArticleHillary and Jeb, the Neo-coys
Much buzz today about The Fawning in Las Vegas. Makes you feel like a frog that realized the water was too hot and jumped out. It is too mild to describe this disgraceful behavior of politicians as...
View ArticleLate night shows must continue with the image of god
And as we all know, god is a white male who speaks English. Just like his bff, Jesus.Disclaimers:I liked David Letterman. I love Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert.But I take umbrage with Dick...
View ArticleTwo Women Challenge Obama
(Ok, I'll get this over with and mention that Hillary wasn't one of them--she subtly denigrates him if she thinks it can win her favor for her entitled destiny, but it is beneath her to actually...
View ArticleStrum and...dang!-send in the clowns
After Kerry "lost" the election to youknowwho, I was coming off of doing my damnedness to make some effort toward his election, by the mealy measure of phone-banking the weekend before the election. I...
View ArticleI am Brian's Knee.
Or Knee-Jerk??? It has become apparent to the jaded corner of my eye, that the big news blog-job du semaine is Brian Williams inability to come to terms with what an RPG IS.To be Frank...
View ArticleI can haz oligarchy
There are things I can't help loving about Barbara Bush. And no, not her perception that Katrina refugees in Houston were having the time of their lives on cots in a stadium.It was the time when, as...
View ArticleK-rickets on this?
I was one of those who willingly accepted the narrative "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!"Until I saw Michael Brown using his size to intimidate the store owner from whom he shoplifted his cigarillos.I made a...
View ArticleThe brackets are over; brickbat time (special Helerious anticipatory edition.)
I do remember Hillary's 2008 announcement "I'm in to win." Bet that one was market-tested to death.So tomorrow {{Sunday, Sunday at US 30 drag strip!!}} will she echo and say "I'm in to gin it up?"I...
View ArticleThe Acceptance stage
Most/Many/Some of you are familiar with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross'"On Death and Dying" or have heard of the distillation of the stages of grief. Denial is the first, iirc, acceptance is the last.Can we not...
View ArticleDialogue, Schmieologue
I see traces of welcome for Bernie Sanders stepping up for the presidential race here. Unfortunately, it is couched in the parenthetical hope that it may push Hillary to the left, or "start a...
View ArticleThere really was a time when The Dave Clark Five were more popular than the...
There was also a time when Paul Tsongas was running against Bill Clinton. And Paul Tsongas was my man in that race. (I will also confess to supporting Bill Bradley, which I might explain in a footnote...
View ArticlePeople for Bernie in San Jose Today
PeopleforBernie.com is a grassroots organizing place. Many other cities have formed their groups under this umbrella. Today a group of people met through San Jose for Bernie. I was one of the 16, and I...
View ArticleLet us earn American exceptionalism by electing Bernie.
Oh hell, isn't it apparent we are in the dying days of empire, when we are offered up a Bush or a Clinton again?Consider how much of that is based on reigning superstitions:We cannot fight against the...
View ArticleMy home's in Montana, I wear a bandana..
I just watched the Jon Stewart segment where I could hear Hillary Clinton lathering up her "southern accent" while giving a speech in South Carolina. I read about this earlier today, and even found...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Christian Science Monitor Breakfast
I was waiting to get the whole video of this.Apologies if it was diaried earlier.
View ArticleWe didn't deliver Bernie; we're not that good. Yet.
This afternoon, our particular silicon valley group for Bernie met for the 2nd time. The attendance was double of our first meeting. A bit more diverse than the first. One participant actually thought...
View ArticleAnomaly on Dad's Day
I am squarely within the demographic of people who have to deal with elderly parents. (Boomer! 1954!) Both my parents are dead and have been dead for quite awhile. My father died in 1967 at the age of...
View ArticleAnother musician rejects being used for Republican launch, but is happy with...
There has been a long tradition mentioning the lack of Republican comedians and folk singers. And who knows if Donald Trump will sue Neil Young for rejecting him. But now Buckwheat Zydeco is unhappy...
View ArticleAddendum to many of today's diaries
This began very simply as a comment I wanted to make to a diary earlier today---one of those--ok I'll look it up when I get home from work. I'm sure I will be able to find that diary. Didn't happen.The...
View ArticleShark wins pole vault.
From time to time I check up on what Drudge is offering. Curious about his take on Bernie, I ventured in. Surprised he wasn't on the lambaste.And I saw these pics. And thought--oh, no way. This must be...
View ArticleSenator Sanders Has worked with The Intractable Congress
As the author notes in this article, it's surprising Bernie hasn't mentioned this accomplishment on his senate website. But apparently, Bernie Sanders had a "yuge" influence on the ACA.Over the years,...
View ArticleFor the girl is second best to none
We all know how politicians like to foist some sublimity on all of us. And in 21 AD (emphasis on "Ad") US politics you can just feel the aching over the graphics and the buzz words.When I heard that...
View ArticleWe could learn from the folks up north
And I am not just talking about Naomi Klein, a major She-roe...not only because of her writings on "disaster capitalism", but she was invited to hang with Pope Frankie on climate change.I have been...
View ArticleThe Revelation has begun. And there are really some nice things.
So both Politico and The Daily Mail wanted to blow our minds with their scoops on Bernie Sanders:"Bernie Sanders Has a Secret""Bernie Sanders' very 1960s love life revealed - his first wife, the woman...
View ArticleIt takes 200 policy advisors to make vanilla pudding
Not long ago someone (can't remember who) remarked that the poor aren't even mentioned in politics anymore, and that the suffering/disappearing middle class are the ones politicians seek to (or feign...
View ArticleThe Stateless-ness of Terrorism and Global Vulture Capitalism
One of the themes that has been hammered into us, especially with respect to Iran, is the accusation that Iran has been a "state sponsor of terrorism." The T-word.I've just read an article in The...
View ArticleDiggin' the Bernie Archives...he did not love Lucy
Think of all the things that could be implied in a headline like this:"The Bernie Sanders Archive Is Bustling With Mysterious Young Men"Then you start to read the article and it sound like it is going...
View ArticleThe good ol' girls club
404 error. Not found.Take a simple test:Does the term "good ol' boys club" suggest to you something you can locate in your mind, a term that gets you to nod, mm-hmm?Try with your very same mind to...
View ArticleThis will be interesting...
Bernie Sanders was invited to speak at Liberty University. He accepted.
View ArticleJoining in the general ululating
A lot of things bothered me today. As if it makes it different than any other day. For instance, I now have to work on a tobacco-free campus. While wildfires in northern Cali have left their smoke all...
View ArticleYossarian will take the fifth
"from Catch-22*by Joseph HellerAll the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. It was a...
View ArticleThe cartoon that still says it all for me
Believe it was by Gahan Wilson; published in The New Yorker. Probably over 20 years ago.A woman is sitting on a park bench, feeding, not actual birds, but bird-heads that are attached to the end of...
View ArticleWhat if Kim Davis evolves in 7 years?
It is the terrible question that must be asked!Once upon a time, someone, who shall not be named as I consider her privacy paramount (as she does herself) said "I believe that marriage is not just a...
View ArticleThe grassroots were always greener in another age.
Warning: This diary contains pro Sanders suggestions. Could cause nausea. Heart-Bern has been noted as a possible side effect. If you maintain a rage after 4 minutes into the diary, please contact Dr....
View ArticleOne statue bound to be a bust
A statue of Lenin in the Ukraine was recently de-communized, and the artful sculptor chose to turn it into Darth Vader and a free WIFI hot-spot.How will Americans respond to this theft of our very own...
View ArticleI am over it, already.
Sometimes, when you slow down...you actually have the time to research the Ibsen play that ends with Oswald saying “the light, the light.” Why do we only look to Scandinavia for democratic socialism...
View ArticleFirst they came for the Berkeley Post Office
Hopefully, I did not pick a bad time to post (pun intended) this, but there must be a fair number of relative locals, who at least, might care.Dreadful news that privatizing the Palace of Fine Arts in...
View ArticleTIME's Person of the Ear
Some rituals lose their gloss over the years. As a child my family enacted the placement of Baby Jesus in a Manger, just before we trotted off to Midnight Mass. Initially, there was a lovely little...
View ArticleIf you are safe inside on Black Friday..
Say you woke up to a literally freezing California morning. (Yes, someone who was trained by her first 19 years in Chicagoland can become wimped in Cali.) You had a great turkey day, despite the fact...
View ArticleA portrait, as a young man
Among the numerous Sanders unelectability charges, after the socialism “taint”—which will never go away, is “imagine what the Republicans would do to him in the general.”I don’t know what hand controls...
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I changed my mind. I relented.
Ok, it’s relatively minor, but it also served to abraid my stubbornness. I hate polls. I hate mentions of D_____ _rump.On the FB page of my local Bernie grassroots group, a poster urged participation...
View ArticleClinton home in Hope burned (literally)
Can we all agree that it was done by some asshole?Clinton childhood home burnedThat said, please avoid being an asshole in this diary.
View ArticleWhat's the matter with Brooklyn? Sanders picks up endorsements in Harlem and...
You might find yourself asking—but how does it play in the Bronx?Burroughing for Bernie
View ArticleLincoln plus Washington = $6. A President's Day fundraiser for Bernie.
Double-down on your $3 contributions to Bernie tomorrow . It’s much easier than going to a fundraiser where, if you get there too late, the guacamole is long gone, and you are stuck with “crudités” As...
View ArticlePick your bully.
It is rather unsettling that the fact I can post this at all, required that I acknowledged that I had committed a thought crime. I can't easily find the diary that I opined was bullshit. It probably...
View ArticleI Found a Prescription to Give Myself a Headache! Do You have an Rx for Me?
You will buy...I’ve been thinking about the 2008 economic collapse. Last night, I watched “The Big Short.” This morning, I rousted myself from a bit of weekend laziness to listen to Robert Scheer...
View ArticleMichael Herr dies at 76; Dispatches should keep reminding us what war...
There cannot be enough superlatives showered on the writing; but the author himself entered that hell in Vietnam, and with words recreated the the soldiers experience of that time: the hot, dangerous...
View ArticleGeorge Will leaves the GOP
“Will, who resides in Maryland, said he changed his affiliation this month from Republican to unaffiliated.A report from PJ Media quoted Will as saying: “This is not my party.”He also said that it’s...
View ArticleFearful people doing blame assignment
I think that is a fair summary of what is going on in US politics (on “both sides”), and even international ones. The strange aspect of this is the phenomena of trying to register blame before an...
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