A Little Baseball

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Tuesday May 10, 2005 · 12:03 PM PDT

2005/05/10 · 12:03

I thought I could squeeze a shameless plug for my brother's baseball blog into a dKos diary because it's a blog of his season with a group of 9 and 10 year old kids in a not so well off neighborhood. Seems like lots of liberals talk about helping each other out, but lots of us just write some checks and rant to the choir. My brother's got an hours-intensive job as a consultant but is finding the time to go to a couple games a week, sort through the lineup making and dealing with parents and all that stuff, trying to help a few kids learn to play. Plus it's fun to coach a baseball team, and the neighborhood sounds awesome! Games are a community event! The link is:

Can I Pitch?

Any baseball types with advice, drills, or comments are particularly encourage to click through. He currently has a request out for new (FUN!) drills to do with a single coach and 14-16 players, so he can have a bit of time for individual instruction with some of the kids. He just made it unrestricted so you don't have to register or anything to comment. Let him know I sent you :)

Thanks!

Bring on the Flames: Is SS Reform Really So Terrible?

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 9:53 AM PST

2004/12/08 · 09:53

First, let me say that I have no faith that Bush can put together a single proposal that doesn't harm most Americans and serve to funnel money and power to his reactionary cronies. I do wonder, however, at the reflexive, violent reaction of most liberals (and certainly kossacks) against any proposed reform of social security. There was a good description in the NYT a while back of the system installed in Chile in the early 1980s. I can think of a myriad of ways that this kind of legislation could be corrupted and turned into a way to shaft the middle class and funnel billions in fees to a few financial companies. However, is it really so bad, in principle, to create a system of forced savings instead of giant taxation and government subsidy? Read More

Two Articles of Faith That Separate Us (And Neither is Jesus)

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Sunday December 05, 2004 · 9:04 PM PST

2004/12/05 · 21:04

For the first time in a long time, over Thanksgiving I actually talked politics with a staunch conservative - don't you love crazy distant relatives by marraige? Nothing I learned will be revelatory here, but I thought I'd point out what really crystallized for me during the debate. At least as far as foreign policy/terrorism/Iraq go, there are really only two things separating us from them. Everything else follows.

The first is that it is morally acceptable to invade countries in the Middle East just because our economy, as currently structured, relies upon cheap oil to continue growing.

The second is that Arabs are, in effect, all the same. Read More

A Fighting Faith

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Friday December 03, 2004 · 11:07 AM PST

2004/12/03 · 11:07

I searched and didn't find this mentioned on kos anywhere and thought it deserved a look and some discussion. It's an article from yesterday's New Republic by Peter Beinart called A Fighting Faith. Basically he's arguing that there's a similarity in the left of today and the left just after the second world war. Read More

Lessons from '04 Grassroots Fundraising Experience

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Monday November 15, 2004 · 11:13 AM PST

2004/11/15 · 11:13

I don't know how many of you noticed the people in red shirts emblazoned with "DNC" on the street around the country this cycle. I personally saw them in Boston, Philly, San Diego, LA, and Santa Barbara. I was also one of them. I had two free months this past summer, and I took a paying job with Grassroots Campaigns, a separate organization that contracted to raise money for the DNC. I've heard lots of newscasts about how Democratic ground troops were more often paid than GOPers; we had to hire mercenaries, while they had huge swells of people giving of themselves freely. I can attest that passion and morale among workers was extremely high. People were scraping by to fight for Kerry; and seriously, even if you were a star fundraiser, you weren't making much more than $8/hour. That was great, but I had mixed feelings about the work I was doing. I think part of the problem is actually what is hinted at by those news clichés. The people at GCI weren't mercenaries, but they had nowhere similar to go within the actual Democratic party, even if they were willing to work for free. Read More

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