Two Guys Lost in Ohio

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Tuesday July 17, 2007 · 2:10 AM PDT

2007/07/17 · 02:10

I don't post here very often at all, but ShaunMcDonnell's recent hello-from-a-right-winger diary got me thinking I should write up something that's been on my mind lately, as it seems somewhat
relevant.

Let me start with a metaphor to, you know, tie the room together.

Two guys are in a car on their way from D.C. to Chicago, when they get lost somewhere in Ohio. Soon afterwards, they find themselves in a big city, and they start arguing about how they should get back on track. The driver of the car wants to go Northwest, while the passenger insists they should go West instead. They argue about this for what seems like hours, eventually saying a lot of mean things to each other, to the point that it almost comes to blows.

More after the fold...

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Tuesday August 02, 2005 · 12:37 AM PDT

2005/08/02 · 00:37

When an animal is mortally threatened, there is usually a "fight or flight" reaction, where either the animal tries to alleviate the threat by fleeing it or combating it. If the animal is cornered and cannot flee, the "fight" option is generally chosen even if it wasn't the animal's first choice, and any combat in this situation is not necessarily well-orchestrated but instead quite chaotic. Such a reaction is filled with panic since the animal may sense its inevitable demise forthcoming, and any resistance it can muster, no matter how ill-advised, is believed to be better than the finality of the alternative.

The animal of Capitalism is no different. Having now consumed nearly all it can, and being trapped by its confines on Planet Earth, it is cornered with nowhere else to go. And so it fights, regardless of consequence.

Everything's Coming to a Head

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Thursday June 02, 2005 · 12:49 AM PDT

2005/06/02 · 00:49

I'm sure most of us here have gotten the sense lately that events seem to be... converging... on something. Unfortunately we don't know what that "something" is, but we'd like to hope it would be positive (for a change).

I've gotten this sense as well, but tonight I started grasping its full extent, and a strange realization came along with it.

We're now facing almost every single major trial this country has ever endured... all at once.

A protest that could actually work?

chargrove

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Wednesday May 11, 2005 · 2:37 AM PDT

2005/05/11 · 02:37

This is a relatively short diary entry, but I was hoping to get some feedback from other Kossacks on the idea.

By now we're all used to the frequent calls to "take to the streets" on any number of the (very serious) issues that have been brought up here. And we do so, to some extent... but whatever public protests we happen to organize/attend tend to have hit-or-miss results, and even the "hits" don't generally get the thing we need most: big media attention. Heck, even the anti-war protests across the country (and the world) on the second anniversary of the Iraq war barely made a dent in the landscape of MSM mindshare.

So I'm proposing a slightly altered approach in getting the MSM to cover major protests: how about we not give them a choice?

Details on the flip.
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The Big Crazy Picture

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Wednesday April 20, 2005 · 3:07 AM PDT

2005/04/20 · 03:07

I've been letting this diary gel in my head for a little while now, but the recent election of the new Pope gave me the impetus to actually write it. Before you start rolling your eyes, no this diary is not all that religious per se (even atheists shouldn't be too put off by what's in here I hope), it's more philosophical and, to some extent, political. It's more about my most recent thoughts on the Big Picture of what's really going on underneath all this crazy bullshit we've been dealing with in accelerating fashion over the past several years.

It starts with a single question: Given what you know about the possibilities of modern science and technology, combined with the multitude of possible ulterior motives of people in power (be they politicians, corporatists, or leaders of dogmatic religions)... does the concept of "truth" have any relevance anymore in the physical world?

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U.S. to Kyrgyzstan - Bend Over

chargrove

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Saturday March 26, 2005 · 2:52 PM PST

2005/03/26 · 14:52

Up until now I haven't found the gumption to put up a diary entry of my own, but I just read something that seemed pretty incredible, and I haven't read anything about it here on dKos yet.

Secret report of the U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyz Republic

This is supposedly a letter from the U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, describing how the U.S. has been interfering in that country. We all "knew" that this kind of thing was going on, but reading it from the horse's mouth is a very different thing, and given the overthrow that happened last week, well... you connect the dots.

Two Guys Lost in Ohio

The Last Fire of Capitalism

Everything's Coming to a Head

A protest that could actually work?

The Big Crazy Picture

U.S. to Kyrgyzstan - Bend Over