Child Abuse? Or Warehousing? WITH POLL
Hello everyone, This is my first diary, so please overlook any dumb 20th centuryisms, or better yet please feel free to point them out. I'm very teachable; tho not [always] obedient, I'm correctable. I...
View ArticleKatrina Victims Defrauded by State Farm?
It is bad enough to be victimized by an incompetent and indifferent federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Bad enough to suffer the slings and arrows of global-warmed nature in the first place. In...
View ArticleMaking War on the First Amendment
This is the kind of story that worries my doctors, because of what it does to my blood pressure. It is a clear example of the creeping fascism which has infested our entire public sector, in the last...
View ArticleLive Blogging Election Results: OH-Gov, OH-SoS, OH-04, OH-05, OH-08, OH-12,...
This is one of three diaries covering Ohio races. The other diaries cover OH-Sen and OH-01, OH-02, OH-06, OH-15. Here is a link back to the master diary. Every campaign may also be readily accessed...
View ArticleA Sunday Mea Culpa From An Atheist and a Referral To A Better Diary
Religious fundamentalism poisoned my childhood. The corrosive influence of Dominionist dogma still affects me in ugly ways, and crops up in unexpected eruptions, like a permanent pustule on my psyche....
View ArticleA rant about race and role models.
Eight days ago I sat in Severance Hall, listening to Judge Herbert E. Phipps, a black member of Georgia's Appeals Court, tell a class of brand new JDs what it used to be like, and why he'd come north...
View ArticleCould Such Things Still Happen Today? Do They?
Yesterday I read a diary about an illegitimate traffic harrassment which xxdr-zombiexx experienced recently, in Georgia. His story inspired a comment from me, and part of my comment inspired this...
View ArticleHow And Why I Made A Seniors Building A WiFi Hotspot
The Fenway Hall Hotel opened in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923, in a new 13 story Art Deco building.The building occupies the Northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Stokes Boulevard, faces East with the...
View ArticleWhat A Difference A Half Century Makes
I read an interesting diary by Samer about an inappropriate question asked by a store cashier, regarding Samer's ancestry. It is a question which, from a stranger or in a business situation, is...
View ArticleThis Is SO Cool. So Beautiful, and Cool.
I've been really busy lately, and haven't been around the way I like and need to be, but I stay logged in, and at least scan the headlines. My first headsup about the coming end of lifetime...
View ArticleBettie Naylor Has Died
Some here will know of her as one of the founders of the Human Rights Campaign. Others may know of her from her work with Annie's List. She was also one of the founders of National Women's Political...
View ArticleWiFi For Seniors (Part II)
This is Part II of a three part series. Part I is HERE. Upon entering the high ceilinged Art Deco lobby of the former hotel where I live one walks past an original, still in use U.S. mailbox and drop...
View ArticleIf You Want My Money, Be Honest
One of the worst things a potential ally can do to me is attempting to enlist my aid by obfuscating the facts we all need to have, in order to make informed decisions. Most of the time I ignore such...
View Article"All Animals Are Equal.."
Charges May Be Reduced for Bikers in Manhattan Highway BeatingTop charges will probably be reduced against an off-duty undercover New York City police officer and nine other bikers charged in the...
View ArticleI'd Guess THIS One Really Stung
First of all, no serious person would claim that having a vast spy network covering the entire country, building detailed dossiers on millions of people, and targeting social justice activists and...
View ArticleHey, Sen. Casey [D-Pa], Moveon sez yer a dirty drongo. Is it true?
"Sens. Casey and Toomey plot secret deal to nominate Tea Party Judge for Western PA District Court.""Keystone Progress has learned that a backroom deal by Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey may result...
View ArticleOMG! Paul Krugman has hurt Nate Silver's fee-fees
I could be mistaken. It might be merely a case of 538 generating publicity for itself, though I doubt that. If it were just a publicity stunt I would expect Nate to use his own methodology to produce a...
View ArticleWow. Just wow. A kossak I totally respected has just gob-smacked me
I won't link to the diary which triggered this one. That would turn this into a rules-violating call-out. But I couldn't leave what I read unchallenged and I actually started this as a comment there....
View ArticleWell.. The Pope Is Still Doing It.. Meet The New Boss,
same as the old boss. I'm not surprised, since I expected it, but I confess to being a little shocked at how obvious it is. I expect more subtlety from a man who was picked by his peers for his P.R....
View ArticleDeath of man restrained by NYPD ruled homicide
I like what the author and editor(s) did here. In my opinion, they are a credit to their journalism credentials. I am the kind of idealist who feels the Fourth Estate owes the other three a 'legal'...
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