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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 5:06 PM PST

2012/11/07 · 17:06

Wow. It's been a very long time since I posted a diary here, but I just couldn't let this go.

This afternoon I passed by conservative Houston talk radio station 950 AM KPRC (aka "The 9-5-0 - Radio Mojo") at just about 5pm and was immediately aurally assaulted by one of the most vile things I've heard on the radio in a long time.

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Tuesday August 10, 2010 · 10:35 AM PDT

2010/08/10 · 10:35

Last Saturday evening I popped into my local Kroger to do some last minute shopping for a little get-together at my house, and I overheard a conversation between a Kroger employee and a customer which set my blood to boiling. Because I needed to get back home quickly before friends arrived, I resisted the temptation to blow my top then and there, and instead sent the following comment from the Feedback portion of their website.

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What should happen?

Kroger should discipline the worker

17 votes

Kroger should re-train the worker

29 votes

Both A and B

115 votes

Kroger should fire the worker

37 votes

Nothing; people have the right to hold and express awful opinions

52 votes

Robert Gibbs hates us all

30 votes

3.14159265

12 votes

CNBC Writer Lambasted for Racist Opinion

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Tuesday November 03, 2009 · 8:05 AM PST

2009/11/03 · 08:05

Yesterday, CNBC.com Sports Business writer Darren Rovell posted an article under the banner Marathon's Headline Win Is Empty. His point? That Sunday's New York Marathon winner, US citizen Meb Keflezighi, is not American enough.

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Tuesday January 27, 2009 · 10:25 AM PST

2009/01/27 · 10:25

On my in-progress website, a little while ago I innocently posted part of a short story called "Jeffty is Five" by famous sci-fi (he prefers the term "speculative fiction") writer Harlan Ellison, a guy whose fiction and non-fiction I've been reading for more than 30 years. At the time, I just happened to be re-reading an e-book of the short story collection it appeared in, Shatterday, and I wanted to see some actual text up on the site as opposed to "Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda" or other such nonsense. If I'd have been reading Stephen King at the time, it could well have been something by him, or by Roger Zelazny, or any number of my favorites.

But, Fate being the smartass that she is, it was Ellison.

A small bit of background on Harlan: He's notorious for being an abrasive gadfly and, quite frankly, a bit difficult. It's ok, though, because that's just his way, he knows what he is and he's fine with it, he's been like that forever and he's a legend in the field. Besides, he's usually right.

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Saturday November 15, 2008 · 4:28 PM PST

2008/11/15 · 16:28

So I was making my Friday drive home yesterday at 4:30 pm, heading from the office to my own neck of the woods in Spring, 20+ miles to the north. I was waiting at the traffic light at Hammerly & Brittmore when my car (a white Dodge Intrepid) just died. I tried and tried to start it, but it just clicked at first, and then did nothing at all; without even enough current to flash the hazard lights.

Sucks ass, right? For about five minutes ... yeah. (follow me over the jump to find out how the rest of the evening worked out)

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 8:52 AM PST

2008/11/02 · 08:52

Up until a couple of years ago, I used to listen to more rightwing radio bloviating blowhards than I do now, for reasons ranging from simply keeping tabs on what the other side was talking about, to giving myself a reason to be righteously pissed off (I actually like being angry for a good reason). I called in relatively often when I felt strongly about a particular issue and, arguing from a position of principle and fact, was able to regularly stump and fluster the hosts, since their positions so often relied on emotion and prejudice.

I've found, though, that they have been getting worse and worse over time. Especially since the emergence of Obama on the national scene, their attacks have grown more and more blatantly racist and xenophobic, and I'm just getting too old to subject myself to their semi-coherent bullshit much any longer.

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 1:19 PM PDT

2008/10/04 · 13:19

Obama-smearer extraordinaire Stanley Kurtz, as many of you know, is the one of the main motive forces behind the ridiculous Obama-William Ayers smear. Unsatisfied with that failed trope, he's decided, along with a number of his rightwing shill pals, to try to pin blame for the Wall Street greed orgy and subsequent flameout on ... you guessed it: Obama and minorities in general.

A pack of rightwing shills to try to shift blame for a huge fuckup by their allies (who, as a class, profited from the entire debacle to a huge extent) over to minorities is like the KKK blaming lynching on uppity negros.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 12:14 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 00:14

I worked five hours late tonight trying to finish an international proposal before the holiday weekend (to avoid coming in on my day off); I didn't get home till after 11:45pm.

When it became apparent I'd have to work late, I fired up the handy uVerse DVR web interface and set it to record tonight's MSNBC convention broadcast.

Once I got home, I fed the cats, and let the dogs inside, made myself an impromptu dinner of leftovers, opened a Tecate and sat down to watch my recorded convention night. I just finished watching Obama's speech five minutes ago.

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Sunday June 15, 2008 · 10:47 PM PDT

2008/06/15 · 22:47

Rambling post-Father's Day Musings

All the Father's Day diaries with all their wonderful reminiscences of great dads got me to thinking about my own father, whom I don't remember at all. I wish I had the inspirational experiences and bonds with my father that others have reported here today. I might be a very different person today if I had.

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Sunday June 25, 2006 · 7:22 AM PDT

2006/06/25 · 07:22

I don't often have good dreams about political subjects. My politically-themed nightime hallucinations fall mostly into the 'nightmare' category.

But last night, I dreamed that Al Gore announced his 2008 presidential candidacy on the Daily Show. Read More

Pakistani PM very skeptical of US airstrike account

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Monday January 23, 2006 · 8:16 AM PST

2006/01/23 · 08:16

Couldn't find this in the diaries; apologies if it's a repost.

Apparently the administration's after-the-fact pronouncements about how effective the January 13 (Friday the 13th, I might add) airstrike against suspected al Qaeda members in the mountainous region along the Pakistani-Afghan are apparently news to Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

The US has claimed that al Qaeda chemical weapons expert Midhat Mursi (a.k.a. Abu Khabab), Khalid Habib, aQ's chief of operations for Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Ubayda al Masri, its operations chief for the Afghan Konar province were in the vicinity when the airstrike took place and were the intended targets. US officials also claimed that as many as eight alQ-related foreigners were killed in the raid, but that their bodies were quickly spirited away by accomplices.

On CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", Aziz called the report US report "bizarre" and said that "There is no evidence, as of half an hour ago, that there were any other people there" other than the 13 civilians confirmed killed. Read More

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Saturday January 14, 2006 · 12:58 PM PST

2006/01/14 · 12:58

I'm involved in a friendly ongoing email debate with a self-described RW libertarian friend (Scott). He's a good guy, very intelligent, and one of my best friends. When we get together and bullshit, I can usually nail him down to less-than-rightwing positions on a lot of issues.

For instance, he is pro-abortion; pro-privacy; he's against institutional discrimination (although he's a little racist himself); he's not religious and thinks that the religious right's influence over the Repubs is pernicious; he's for gay civil unions (but not for gay marriage); he thinks Bush is a bumbling dunce not fit to serve as president (ditto for Bush's neocon posse); and he's very uncomfortable with the direction of the US government in the past few years.

One caveat: he's extremely pro-gun. Read More

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