GBCW -- No longer interested.

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday March 05, 2016 · 1:18 PM PST

2016/03/05 · 13:18

Thanks for many years of news and entertainment.

It pains me to say it, but I’m done.

I don’t like the new format. I don’t like the infighting and meta-bullshit. And lately I’m finding very little here to enlighten or amuse — not even enough to inspire the occasional comment.

Best wishes to you all.

I’ll be voting for the Democrat, in case you were wondering.

Play It Again Sports, you're AWFUL!

Powell

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 15, 2015 · 12:06 AM PST

2015/01/15 · 00:06

Wherein I rant about the very mean thing Play It Again Sports of S__ B____, California is doing to my daughter.

In brief, a Play It Again Sports store bought a stolen bicycle that is verifiably my daughter's property, and -- although they have surrendered the bike to the police department -- they have slapped a lien on it because they believe they are the victims of this minor crime.

My daughter's bike sits at the cop house till who knows when. The police say she could have it back except for the lien.

The lien is for $75.00.

My college freshman is without wheels on a big campus.

Play It Again Sports, you jackasses -- release the lien on my kid's bicycle!

Details follow below the pictogram of my burning rage, as hot as ten thousand suns.

Powell

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday September 05, 2012 · 11:56 AM PDT

2012/09/05 · 11:56

One of my guilty pleasures is a social site for folks in my industry. You know, lots of anecdotes, gouge-trading, networking, and plenty of unrelated chat.

Including politics.

To say workers in my industry skew to the right would be an understatement. Nevertheless, I shovel sand against the tide daily, doing my small part in the political process. Occasionally a like-minded person joins in, but mostly -- it's me against the sea.

Today, some glurge mislabeled as "fact checking" was posted. I'd like to do some debunking, but I just can't find the facts on the claims made, nor can I determine definitely what the original source is. The thing is, some of the claims made just don't pass the smell test.

If you'd like to help me in my little Get Out The Truth effort, put on your full face mask and hazmat suit, and read below the orange whifferdill.

Powell

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday August 29, 2012 · 2:55 PM PDT

2012/08/29 · 14:55

no image description available — "Mommy -- the little DKos iPhone app Santa brought me won't wake up!"

"Mommy -- the little DKos iPhone app Santa brought me won't wake up!"

Powell

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday August 14, 2012 · 12:20 AM PDT

2012/08/14 · 00:20

About two years ago, I was hired into a new job with a Very Large Corporation. I knew my work well; I was simply moving from employer to employer more or less laterally -- but for better pay, QOL (quality-of-life), and in order to return to my home city. Lucky me!

Although much of my work is outside the office setting, I was assigned to a desk in a cellblock ... er, cubicle ... with coworkers. One of these colleagues was a 78-year old, frail-looking man with silver hair, kind eyes, and a speech impediment. Let's call him Johnny.

Johnny became a great friend and mentor to me, as I learned the internecine ways of Very Large Corporation. We became neighbors when I rented a house near his. We talked about my kid, his kids, our dogs -- and we talked an awful lot about politics, though sotto voce, adjacent cellblocks being full of dittoheads and Randians.

I felt I had come to know Johnny well, though I never got a straight answer to this simple question: "Why don't you just retire, Johnny?"

None of my other coworkers -- who had known Johnny for much longer than I -- seemed to have an answer to this mystery, either.

I figured it out on my own finally, just a few days ago -- when I met Johnny's widow for the first time.

Jump over the orange whifferdill and I will explain.

RSS

GBCW -- No longer interested.

Play It Again Sports, you're AWFUL!

Help me debunk this, please

"Oh, Little App, I loved you SO MUCH!"

"Why don't you just retire, Johnny?"