The Parable of the Unpruned Tree

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Wednesday February 25, 2009 · 3:58 PM PST

2009/02/25 · 15:58

Wealth can be either a good or bad thing - good, in that America has enough wealth in the economy to support reasonably good lives for everyone, but bad, in that greed sometimes sets in and some interests hoard the wealth until the economy gets top-heavy and falls over like an unpruned tree.

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Tuesday February 24, 2009 · 3:07 PM PST

2009/02/24 · 15:07

I urge everyone on Daily Kos to read ""The Obama Code," a diary today written by George Lakoff. Lakoff is telling Kossacks that many of us, maybe most of us haven't grasped the central point of Obama's Presidency nor his methods to build consensus.

If you have already read it, read it again. I discovered some really exciting ideas in Lakoff's diary, and my thoughts are below the fold. They are less important than his. But, I have written meta diaries like this beforew, and I can't help myself. So, think of this as a rave review for a book, except the book is a DKos diary.

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Sunday February 22, 2009 · 2:50 PM PST

2009/02/22 · 14:50

What if the Oscars went to the best work? What if the Oscars were for something more than celebrating Hollywood, or the selected indies that Hollywood loves? What if the Independent Spirit awards were for ALL films? That might be what these picks would look like if I ran the world, which I actually do, but I have a sick sense of humor, so I let stuff like the Oscars go screamingly wrong. Remember Rob Lowe? That was an act of deliberate inattention on my part. OK? OK!

The result is my look at my picks for the best films, performances and technical work of 2008. Also.

Just to irritate people in advance, I would like you to know I have worked as a film critic for a number of years in the past, and I have developed esoteric tastes in film, and my picks reflect that high-falutin' attitude!

If you disagree with my picks (and you will), have fun in the comments. I'm not gonna live-blog this, because we have guests, but after the jump are my thoughts.

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Best Film

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Best Film

Slumdog Millionaire

18 votes

Benjamin Button

1 vote

Frost/Nixon

3 votes

The Reader

2 votes

Milk

4 votes

The Visitor

1 vote

Frozen River

0 votes

In Bruges

1 vote

Wall-E

3 votes

Dark Knight

7 votes

Tell No One

0 votes

Let the Right One In

0 votes

Rachel Getting Married

1 vote

Pie

9 votes

"Who owns the Holocaust" Response (redux)

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Friday January 02, 2009 · 10:36 PM PST

2009/01/02 · 22:36

This diary was originally titled: A response to the comments to, "Who owns the Holocaust?"

This is a repost from New Year's Eve. That diary got hijacked, and basically ruined. I feel strongly enough tonight to repost. Sorry if it's out of date....

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I'm sorry, but many of the comments following the provocative and thoughtful diary "Who owns the holocaust?" by litho are wrong in so many ways, it's hard to know what to say about them. I am truly disappointed in the whole I/P debate that is going on here.
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(update) This is more like it folks! I actually learned a lot tonight! Thanks!!

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 · 11:59 PM PST

2008/12/31 · 23:59

I'm sorry, but many of the comments in the provocative and thoughtful diary "Who owns the holocaust?" by litho are wrong in so many ways, it's hard to know what to say about them. I am truly disappointed in the whole I/P debate that is going on here.

jump....

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Saturday December 20, 2008 · 2:30 AM PST

2008/12/20 · 02:30

The following letter was sent to Barack Obama, and has been sent to my local newspaper. If we all wrote letters to the President-Elect, and sent them to our local papers, maybe visibility of this issue would pass some threshold inside the transition and help get Rick Warren booted off of the Inauguration platform.

Dear Mr. President-Elect:

Please reconsider asking Rick Warren to give the invocation at your inauguration. You've made a mistake. It makes no sense to assert you are fiercely for gay and lesbian rights, only to invite a man to represent Americans of faith at your inauguration who refuses to allow gays and lesbians in his church! He considers gays to be equal to pedophiles and those who commit incest. The charter of his church excludes gays from joining. This is wrong. It's not true Christianity, and it surely isn't what America should be about, either.

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Friday August 08, 2008 · 10:58 PM PDT

2008/08/08 · 22:58

There's plenty of John Edwards crap here today, but yet maybe not enough. I am completely unconcerned with the "newsworthiness" of this sad episode, even though I suspect that the "news" about it has not all unfolded yet.

I am amazed that Elizabeth posted here today, but not for the reason most here have already wriiten. I also understand the anger and the rationalizations that are sprinkled throughout diaries and comments here today. This is an ugly, sad, confusing mess. But the press, and the Edwards family has some 'splainin' to do to us. Both of them put our Presidential election at risk by calculating not what was morally right, nor what was ethical, but what would, in the press's case, be the best time to get maximum play out of the story; and in the Edwards' case, how likely they were to escape being found out.

Because, all of them knew the same truth.....

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Monday June 23, 2008 · 10:38 PM PDT

2008/06/23 · 22:38

I admit it. I wrote a diary a couple days ago called, A Note to Barack Obama (with feeling). In it, I posted the text of a letter to Bill Burton, of the Obama campaign, slamming the FISA decision.

I still hate the decision. I still have hopes that Senator Obama will take the lead on this at the last moment in a way that will put the issue to rest. I still believe it will be too little too late. I'm really disappointed.

But, even after putting all my anger and bluster and rhetoric out there for all to see; and even though I argued effectively in the diary that we should withhold some personal resources from the Obama campaign to get his attention; and even though I agree with every single word Glenn Greenwald wrote on the subject, especially this,

Mea Culpa below the fold.....

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 12:43 AM PDT

2008/06/22 · 00:43

I sent the following letter to Barack Obama, via his spokesperson, Bill Burton. I am posting it here because I've changed my mind about FISA - again. If anyone was paying attention (which I doubt) or if this confuses you, let Glenn Greenwald unconfuse you. Glenn is the man!

In short, I wrote a number of comments to stories and diaries here urging people to calm down about Obama's new FISA position. All day today, I felt like shit. I realized why just tonight. Barack Obama's sellout of the Constitution, and his bailout of the telecoms makes me sick!

I've written a letter telling the campaign exactly what I will and will not do for Obama at this point.

The full text is below the fold....

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Barack Obama's FISA position is:

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Barack Obama's FISA position is:

unfortunate.

19 votes

wrong.

12 votes

dead wrong.

30 votes

catastrophic.

7 votes

evil.

6 votes

satanic.

0 votes

worse than a dumb war.

1 vote

one that makes me think of pie.

13 votes

Friday the 13th is over

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Friday June 13, 2008 · 10:45 PM PDT

2008/06/13 · 22:45

Here it is, the end of Friday the 13th of June, 2008. Today, Tim Russert died doing a voice-over for his weekend show; Stewart Mott, whose foundation funds a lot of Bill Moyers' PBS shows died of cancer (thanks for Seneca Doane's fine diary about Mr. Mott), and my beloved Iowa is under water. (Thanks for the great news diary from DemocratOz about the floods)

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 2:47 PM PDT

2008/06/03 · 14:47

Those were the opening words of Barack Obama's speech following his victory in the Iowa Caucuses. On that night, I knew that Iowans had made history, but Barack acknowledged it in a way that I never expected. He universalized our message.

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I will:

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I will:

Give the Obama campaign a donation a month for the next five months

11 votes

Give 24 hours of my time each month to a Democratic candidate

2 votes

Make 24 calls per month for a Democratic candidate

0 votes

1 vote

Write a letter to the editor each month for a Democrat

0 votes

Wear a Barack Obama T-shirt one weekend per month

0 votes

Promise to find something else I can do each month as a Democrat

1 vote

Do all of the above!

4 votes

Do four of the above!

4 votes

Do three of the above.

11 votes

Do two of the above.

4 votes

Eat pie while Chris Matthews talks for five months

12 votes

Paranoia, or the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

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Saturday May 24, 2008 · 9:36 PM PDT

2008/05/24 · 21:36

Why won't Hillary quit? Why do we care so much whether she does? Is it over? Is there still time? Is there a way she can win? Does she want Barack Obama to die? Do we want her to die? Well ... history can be our guide.

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"Who owns the Holocaust" Response (redux)

A response to the comments to, "Who owns the Holocaust?"

An Open Letter to Barack Obama (Rick Warren)

Serve the Greater Good, Chumps!

I'm a hypocrite, and it's OK!

A Note to Barack Obama (with feeling)

Friday the 13th is over

"They said this day would never come"

Paranoia, or the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy