Remember Lush's Katrina Biowarfare Diary
I just don't have any digging time, but it would be cool if the people here who are good at digging would occasionally take Lush's Sept. 3, 2005, diary "Biological Weapons in New Orleans?" out of the...
View ArticleA short filibuster against tyranny
OK, I haven't read all of the diaries or comments or stories or newspaper articles, and I wasn't a poli sci major, and I now realize that I don't really know how filibusters work, and I suck rocks,...
View ArticleCorzine, Menendez: Let Fulop Run!!!!!
OK, I'm not a political insider, I don't know every angle, and I don't know whether what my paper says is true. But my paper says Steve Fulop, a young veteran who is a terrific city councilman in...
View ArticlePR Idea: Give A Wingnut A Hug / Contest
I was thinking of the article about Hillary Clinton complaining at a UAW event about the Republicans playing the "fear card." Here is reframing idea: instead of using the rhetoric of complaint and...
View ArticleDems Have Ideas: The Platform
I think it would be nice if the cool folks here would have some kind of weekly platform thread. What bugged me about the Sunday Times book review of "Crashing the Gates" is the assertion that Markos,...
View ArticleSoylent Green Now: Peak Fish
I like gasoline, but I'll bet there's some way to get along without it. Getting along without fish, however, would be a real pain. The Marine Fish Conservation Network says only 13% of federally...
View ArticleBurkle Blackmailer Linked To Gannon
Best of Both Worlds says Jared Paul Stern quoted Jeff Gannon in an April 25 gossip column. The question is: does this piece of circumstantial evidence help strengthen the argument that Stern might have...
View ArticleSoylent Green Now: Peak Food
You know that opening montage in Soylent Green that hints at the crop failures that led to Soylent Green being people? The Lawrence, Kan., newspaper says AccuWeather believes the coming summer may...
View Article2 Heroes: A Diplomat And A German General
I just found a really beautiful press release that refers (boo! hiss!) about Hiram Bingham IV, a diplomat in Vichy France who worked to help Jews and British POWs escape from the Germans during the...
View ArticleIs EPA fudging air quality stats?
When I look at New York from the west side of the Hudson River, it looks as if New York is sitting under a giant cloud of terrible smog all day long. But, when I visit the EPA air quality Web site, it...
View ArticleRightMarch.com goes after foreign language ballots
It's interesting to see how hard RightMarch.com is campaigning against everything to do with illegal and, really, legal immigrants. I think RightMarch.com is, basically, an e-mail mass marketing firm...
View ArticleSeriously: What Bush has done right
I'll probably make my usual typos here, but I don't mean for this to be taken as satire. I think one key step to winning any battle is to understand the strengths of your enemy, however awful your...
View Article'99 article about Clinton Al Qaeda response
The idea that Clinton didn't try hard to catch Bin Laden is absurd. If you search with Groups Google, you see that Bin Laden made systematic efforts to assassinate Clinton and others in his...
View ArticleRovies preparing own sex scandal stories???
I have a friend who is unofficially one of us but, officially, is still a Log Cabin Republican and is pretty well plugged in to the GLBT Republican universe. He says the Republicans are preparing to...
View ArticleHelp: Minn National Guard "smart bomb" banner real?
OK, I'm addicted to the Drudge Report as well as this site. My theory is that whoever picks the stories for Drudge Report (whether that's Drudge or someone else) hates what's going on Iraq and is an...
View ArticleScientists: All seafood gone by 2048
The journal Science has published an article suggesting that just about all sources of seafood may run out by the time the youngest Daily Kos Readers are getting ready to retire: Overfishing May Harm...
View ArticleModerates and Progressives
I think one thing that's happening on Daily Kos this week is that, after months of holding our breath and wishing for change of any kind, some of us are remembering that we're really Greens, some that...
View ArticleScary McCain Web censorship bill
John McCain has introduced S. 4089, a bill that would require ordinary message board Webmasters to go through roughly the same formal notification process for kiddie porn posters that an ISP now has to...
View ArticleOT: Have you had a high fever?
I'm just getting over some kind of cold from heck during which I had a 104 degree fever but otherwise was never quite obviously sick enough to call the doctor.But I am hypochondriacal enough to try to...
View ArticleHelp!! What's up with those terrifying MoveAmericaForward TV ads?
If you're reading this and have mojo: please help investigate and discredit MoveAmericaForward, or pick up on this diary and diary more about the organization (if you see its ads) to help reduce its...
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