Diversity As A Conservative Weapon

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 3:58 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 15:58

I'm sure some of you have started to notice that the conservatives often employ a woman or a minority to do a column like the one CB reports on here nowadays.

Swan

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 2:35 PM PDT

2008/05/09 · 14:35

Today Kevin gave his opinion about Hillary for Veep. Here are my two comments in response.

UPDATE: To all the people who complained that I wrote another "Hillary Clinton as veep" diary when a bunch of others did, I am a regular diarist (over 30 recent diaries, always receiving comments and recs) and people may want to see my point of view on this rather than have it be buried among 400 other comments. I am not going to keep quiet like a whipped dog on this just because trolls gang up and write 30 diaries on whether Hillary should be veep to keep anybody from writing an even moderately pro-Hill diary on this. I definitely remember all the ridiculous investigations the Republicans poured millions of dollars into when Bill was in the White House. I know who our enemies are and I know they do not like the Clintons, but those Republicans can take a hike as far as I am concerned.

Swan

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 6:05 AM PDT

2008/05/07 · 06:05

Kevin asked about sex-ed and the war on science today. Here's my answer.

UPDATE: I added and changed some things on this post until 9:22 AM.

Swan

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Monday May 05, 2008 · 8:32 AM PDT

2008/05/05 · 08:32

How do you get people to watch or read the political news that effects their lives so much, and how do you drive them away from it? The conventional wisdom is that it's the people's fault, that the people just don't watch the news because it doesn't include enough sex-scandals, and images of Britney Spears dancing for the camera. But the conventional wisdom probably disserves us.

Swan

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Sunday May 04, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/05/04 · 09:59

We, as rational individuals, surely, surely, do not allow the possibility that things can be rigged by people and that our media is being taken over by the right-wing. Surely. That is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out there- so impossible, like UFOs or Bigfoot being real. It could never ever happen that anything could be corrupt, or anyone could scam anybody, infiltrate an organization, or that anybody could be bribed, intimidated, or blackmailed. It's not like it's happened before! But, as open-minded individuals, let's just preserve our reputations as thinkers for a sec by going through the motions of examining the unusual events of the Kentucky Derby. Our kids will thank us for phoning it in like this.

Swan

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Friday May 02, 2008 · 8:14 AM PDT

2008/05/02 · 08:14

I just wanted to add my contribution to discussions of a couple of things I have seen on the blogs recently.

UPDATE: I added a paragraph to the Coulter part.

Swan

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 7:09 AM PDT

2008/05/01 · 07:09

Left-wing blogs, maintstream media and public figures continue to fail the American public in how they communicate to us in a post-9/11 world-- a world in which the stupidocracy have, because of a single terrorist attack commited under a conservative Republican president, given themselves a license to take over our country.

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Steve Benen should:

14 votes Vote Now!

Steve Benen should:

Leave us alone, and stop printing his Republican drivel that Barack is a weakling and Fox are winners, just because Barack tried to use TV to win over thousands of voters

4 votes

Think carefully about this story, and write a new post acknowledging that there is in fact an intelligent reason for Dems to want to take a chance to appear on a news channel that is full of lies, yet that much of the nation watches instead of watching oh

4 votes

Do nothing: I find his repeition of pro-Republican, anti-Democratic points just ducky. Keep undermining our morale, and telling us all how stupid good strategy is, and how unworthy our best candidates are, Steve!

6 votes

The Supposedly-Left Blogosphere Takes Its First Shots At Obama - More To Follow During General?

Swan

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Tuesday April 29, 2008 · 9:08 AM PDT

2008/04/29 · 09:08

Complaints on the blogosphere about Barack's recent appearance on Fox News were not only out of line, they were out to lunch.

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Critics of Barack's appearance should:

50 votes Vote Now!

Critics of Barack's appearance should:

lay off

22 votes

lay off and print a retraction and an apology, explaining the arguments Swan posted about

3 votes

not necessarily apologize, but do a re-post on the subject including Swan's point of view

5 votes

do nothing; the criticism was ok

18 votes

don't know

2 votes

Nuggets o' wisdom

Swan

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 7:48 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 19:48

I periodically think up nuggets o' wisdom. I tend not to write these down or communicate them to anybody, then I eventually forget them unless the problem resurfaces sometime or something else reminds me of the solution.

This may be a little selfish, but I have finally collected a few of these, and I want to post them here just so in case anyone ever plagiarizes me, I'll be able to get the satisfaction of pointing to this website, saying "Aha!" and proving that I actually wrote them.

Unlike usually, I might not respond to criticisms or comments (unless you are just asking me to explain some detail a little better for your own benefit), since I am pretty satisfied with these nuggets o' wisdom and am not interested in persuading anyone of anything by them. I'm sorry about the weird formatting, but I wrote these on a little notepad-pane, and didn't feel like reformatting them. I have the meaning of life and the definition of true love here.

UPDATE: Yikes!! I edited some typos out of here and made one of my arguments a little clearer.

Swan

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 8:57 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 08:57

The other day, the Pope seemed like he was going to defy expectations with a show of righteousness, addressing the child abuse epidemic that infests America's priests. Instead, he delivered remarks that proved to be just as bad as if he had said nothing at all.

Swan

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 9:07 AM PDT

2008/04/22 · 09:07

I am writing this diary to detail some ideas about feminism-- I understand that a few different people have used the term Fourth Wave feminism, without any specific path being generally agreed on for this term to apply to yet, but I’d like to add my two cents’ worth to what I hope will become the Fourth Wave of feminism, and to start to outline where that Fourth Wave of feminism will take us from here. I understand that some of what I will write may have been anticipated, for example by the writing of Katha Pollitt or Nadine Strossen, but it is more my purpose to suggest a wide-spread agreement and adoption than to stake out anything new.

Swan

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Monday April 21, 2008 · 12:41 PM PDT

2008/04/21 · 12:41

I saw this post on Washington Monthly and this similar one on The Carpetbagger Report (the Carpetbagger Report post is titled "Why the ABC Debate Sparked So Much Outrage"- if only!) and decided to get my two cents' worth in by putting my comment on the Washington Monthly post here, as well.

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Amazing Goonery

Swan on John McCain, Ann Coulter, and (Mis-)Education

Steve Benen Strikes Out Again

The Supposedly-Left Blogosphere Takes Its First Shots At Obama - More To Follow During General?

Nuggets o' wisdom

The Pope Turns His Back To American Catholics

Holistic Feminism

Let's Be Totally Clear About The ABC Debate