Chris Christie stabs Mitt Romney in the back.
Something interesting happened during the Republican convention. Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey took to the podium, ostensibly to help make the GOP case against Obama and help elect Romney....
View ArticleStrange Days
There seems to be some positive energy for Obama coming out of the convention. This is a good thing of course, but when I look at the election, I mostly just feel a general state of unease. If you...
View ArticleThe return of Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is bringing his streaming television show TheBlaze TV, over to the Dish Network. Currently he's believed to be making more money as an internet streaming show than he did on Fox, but he's...
View ArticlePlease don't stay home.
I get the sense that there are a lot of people who would prefer to just sleep through the election this cycle. When he ran for President, it was easy for Obama to brand himself as some great new thing...
View ArticleWhat I learned during the debates.
I slipped on a banana peel and hit my head last night, suddenly losing my memory and forgetting everything which Mitt Romney has said up until this point. And this is what I have learned. Based on...
View ArticleCircular economics, budgeting for disaster.
These are interesting times that we live in. We are told that Greece has on several occasions nearly precipitated another hit to the economy as they've refused to comply with stringent requirements...
View ArticleConspiracy mythology is the new opiate of conservatism.
It's official. A Republican member of Congress has now officially stated in front of cameras that he believes evolution is not merely wrong but is a liberal conspiracy to lead people to hell. A lot...
View ArticleMitt Romney believed the lie and it cost him.
An interesting confrontation happened between Sununu and Soledad O'Brion happened last week. He repeated a conservative myth regarding Barack Obama's choice of words and the incident in Iran. It is...
View ArticlePlease don't take my medication away.
I wrote this email to send to a person who a story at the connecting like. I have however had a great of difficulty finding an email adress to send this letter to. I've decided to post this article...
View ArticleHealth Care: All this effort... for what?
As I write this, I'm not really certain how constructive it is to say this, but I know at least that it's the truth, and it's probably a truth that people around here should face at some point. I hope...
View ArticleWhat Hurricane Sandy and China have to teach us.
Some time ago I did some transcription work for one of Amnesty International's local chapters, when I made a record of what some of their members had to say about their meeting with Liu Xiaobo. Xiaobo...
View ArticleOhio directive ignores court decision, voter suppression going ahead?
A last minute directive has been issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. (Yes, he's a Republican.)This directive was issued Friday and lays out requirements for submitting a provisional ballot...
View ArticleChris Christie is our next opponent
Well the 2012 Presidential Election is over, and you know what that mean. It's time for the race for the 2016 Elections to begin.Unfortunately, I'm not kidding, they've already started. You don't...
View ArticleHP Lovecraft and the fear of the unknown
(Some offensive language is below, but only for the purpose of clarity.)I found Lovecraft early in my life, and his work fascinated me. He wrote of horrific gods and monsters that were unlike any...
View ArticleThe Climate needs more numbers
Over the past few years, I've gained a better understanding of the climate and the extent to which it is getting worse by reading a lot, but I've also noticed how difficult it is to get that...
View ArticleTheater for Tea Partiers.
As our press continues to screem in terror about what will happen when we drive off the curb, Boehner continues to grandstand and make statements about how the President needs to offer a more...
View ArticleCould the Republican Party be dying?
I have spent a lot of time reading about history, and it seems to me that we might be at a historic moment in history. I don't mean this decade, or this year. I mean this week, maybe this day, right...
View ArticleGood evening from a very crispy Colorado
I am writing this diary from Pueblo, Colorado. I've been here for some time, and I can tell you that the average weather conditions have changed a great deal over the last few decades. This year we...
View ArticleEdward Snowden is not the point.
I've seen several diaries go up that make a point of insulting Edward Snowden. Not only the diaries, but most of the replies to the diaries are all making the same mistake. When we talk about Edward...
View ArticleA threat made against a climate scientist, and how we should deal with it.
Michael Mann is a well known scientist who works for Penn State. About a year ago a blogger for the Competitive Enterprise Institute suggested that because of the scandal in the athletics department,...
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