Imprecatio Vickus: A Racist Archaeopagan Justification of Compassion
Let me start by saying that the Michael Vicks incident intrigues me. Day after day, here on Kos, we lament the studied distractions of the MSM which elevate trivial activities and sins of...
View ArticleSelling Indulgences: Carbon Offsets and the New Puritanism
With carbon-offsets turning up everywhere in the chic set, it’s not surprising that mainstream organs from Business Week to the LA Times are doing articles questioning – OF COURSE – the real versus the...
View ArticleFor The Purpose of Electing Democrats
Much ado is made by Democratic leadership and strategists of the need to cultivate voters who are not committed Democrats. Every program proposed by the "left wing", every advertisement by MoveOn.org,...
View ArticleTwenty-seven reasons to prefer Pooties:
Academic anthropologists and sociologists are unanimous these days in assuring us that human beings are an innately social species that requires, nay, CRAVES the company of other human beings. And, of...
View ArticleSeven Solutions to Sovereign Insolvency
It’s obvious that the U.S. economy is a fast-sinking ship. With the Fed making its second major interest-rate cut in less than two weeks, it’s also obvious that the U.S. currency will be sent to the...
View ArticlePrepare to Govern
All right, ENOUGH already. The candidate advocacy has long passed this Beltway native’s capacity for political spectatorship. We have two acceptable candidates. Neither one is perfect. Neither one...
View ArticleMeanwhile, at the Cincinnati Water Cooler ...
All right, I lie. There is no water cooler. **co, a Fortune 500 company fondly known as a "white-collar sweatshop", doesn’t keep the good water where the employees can gather ‘round and chatter....
View ArticleReporting again from Cincinnati .
"Every time I look at him, I just see horns growing out of his head. I can’t help it; he makes me nervous,"says the nice woman who loaned me a CD of Native American wooden flute last week. Her tastes...
View ArticleDarlings, are you ready?
For the Long Winter’s fall? Said the Lady in her parlour Said the Butler in the hall . . . Is there time for another? Cried the Drunkard in his sleep ... Not likely, said the little child. What’s done,...
View ArticleAnd so it begins ...
I remember Ys Though I have never seen her Gold towers wreathed by mist In the lands of lost Forever Where the Old Gods lie sleeping I can hear the bells ringing
View ArticleA Smashing Success
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 1730– The Beavercreek, Ohio office of Obama/Biden for President held its Grand Opening in a neighborhood where some 25% of the residents still lack electric power after...
View ArticleA Magic Spell To Exorcise the Daemon Money
Money, get away Get a good job with more pay and you’re OK Money, it’s a gas Grab that cash with both hands and make a stashUnitary Moonbat once suggested that I should offer Kossacks a few basic tips...
View ArticleGod is not dead
A minor miracle occurred on Friday, May 14, at four-fifteen p.m. on Rt 4, Dixie Highway, in the northern exurbs of Cincinnati, right at the eastbound entrance ramp to the I-275 freeway. Not the kind...
View ArticleLOOKING FOR A JEWISH UNCLE . . .
Or Aunt, or cousin, or adopted brother or sister . . . the Gods, you see, have played a great joke on me, one which some of the old Eastern European rabbis I’ve heard of would certainly appreciate.
View ArticleURGENT: Occupy Dayton OH
I just received a phone call from a very old friend, my contact in the Occupation of Dayton Ohio. Apparently, the proverbial excrement has hit the ventilation system in that location. The camp had...
View ArticleALSO IN THE NEWS TODAY
I've gotta say it. I'm burned out. Of fifty recent diaries showing on my screen, some forty-five are another rant or roar about the shooting in Connecticut and how we have to adopt some kind of...
View ArticleGetting Outside the Bubble
America is a lovely country, but familiarity breeds contempt. For forty-odd years I've cherished the dream of escaping somewhere outside the bubble of American media domination, to a place where...
View ArticleLook at all the blood!
Distraction. We all know, intellectually at least, how the corporate media uses the endless circus of sensationalism to distract “low-information voters”, the ignorant, and the uneducated from...
View ArticleWhen I die, I want to go to Budapest
I suppose that Budapest is a lot like any other mid-sized European capital that has conserved its heritage and not had a lot of money flowing in during the last century. Not having been to Paris or...
View ArticleCarry me home to Transylvania
So there we were. We had managed to navigate Dulles, Istanbul International, and Franz Lizt Airport in Budapest. We had climbed Gellert Hill and lunched in a cafe on the top of Castle Hill in...
View ArticleWow. And the Food Edition.
First, I have to say a big thank-you to the kind-hearted person who took it into their head to donate a dKos subscription for me! I can't tell you how delightful that is. I do apologize for following...
View ArticleScience punctures another accepted economic meme.
In the wake of the Reinhart & Rogoff revelations, today WAPO tells us of yet another study demonstrating the error of commonly-accepted economic truism: this time about jobs and education. As...
View ArticleNSA Domestic Spying Revealed As Deliberate Strategy
Yesterday, the Guardian published (LINK ) an in-depth article on how recent revelations of NSA domestic surveillance relate to the real war on “terrorism”– that is, “... anti-government and radical...
View ArticleA short letter to my Congressman
My current congresscritter is Republican Randy Forbes of Virginia. And of course, due to Republican control of redistricting, he represents an utterly "safe" district which no Democrat will represent...
View ArticleWhy We Need Bernie
I don't usually write partisan diaries, or even openly political ones. Well, frankly I don't usually write diaries at all; I haven't had the time since I became gainfully employed again. But I...
View ArticleA School Shooting That Didn't Happen
What if . . . FBI investigations, gun control legislation, and direct action by the President weren’t necessary to prevent schools from becoming free-fire zones?Today I stopped running out of the...
View ArticlePolitical Researcher finds Centrists, not Extremists, most hostile to Democracy
The New York Times today offers an opinion column by researcher David Adler demonstrating what every radical has always known — that it is the “centrists”, not radicals, who are least supportive of...
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