We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be the change we wish to see in this country.
One of the richest, and perhaps most under-appreciated, areas of thought come in the form of comments attached to these diaries.
Here at Top Comments we strive to recognize and promote the talent of this community by highlighting outstanding comments found throughout the day by the diarist, and through nominations at made at TopComments at gmail dot com by your fellow Kossacks.
These nominations are subjective, and certainly not complete (as no one can read the complete site on a daily basis!). But we hope they will serve to shine a light where deserved, and to give the reader a good starting point in finding conversation on the site.
Please come in and make yourself at home! Join us beneath the fold...
The Top Comments mailbox was jam-packed with excellent comment nominations today, and the time I'd allotted for writing a diary disappeared during reading, formatting, and otherwise having a great time enjoying the submitted comments. Oh, and looking around for some comments of my own—it'd be embarrassing if I failed to bring anything to the party myself.
So this is going to be an (effectively) comments-only edition of Top Comments. And with submissions in the double digits, and a half dozen comments from me, this isn't going to be a short diary even if the essay is brief.
Enjoy the good reading you have ahead of you. It's why we're here every evening: with tens of thousands of comments, it's too easy to miss the good ones.
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As mentioned above, we had a bounty of emails in the Top Comments mailbox today, and I thank everyone who made time to send along a favorite or two in advance of the 9:30pm Eastern Time deadline. The address of our mailbox for top comments submissions remains:
TopComments AT gmail DOT com
(change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to ".")
Anyone can send great comments to our address. Be sure to include the direct link to a comment—the URL—which is available from that comment's date/time; we need that to find your choice. Please always include your Daily Kos user name in the body of your message, so we can credit you properly. I say again: both link and username are important; someone today forgot the latter. If you send a writeup with the link, we are able to include that, too, though we reserve the right to edit if desirable to do so.
From JaxDem:
In WV TN DEM's diary Great NYT Article By Nicholas Kristof is this comment from mama jo regarding her relationship with the Catholic church.
Here is a submission from today's Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up. The comment thread was begun by OLinda, but the coup de grace was delivered by liberte.
From Land of Enchantment:
Meteor Blades takes a little time out from meta-duties as Community Overlord to add to Ojibwa's diary about the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
From Clive all hat no horse Rodeo:
In a thread discussing whom to strip people of their citizenship, Bob Johnson comes up with a true gem...
From llbear (delayed from yesterday due to a missing link ;-) ):
In Granny Doc's great Tuesday night diary Growing Old in America, 0hio offers this heavy comment.
From jnhobbs:
I thought Mother Mags summed it up pretty well with this comment in Crashing Vor's latest update on the oil spill...
From Angie in WA State:
I've never before nominated a comment by the diarist himself, but this one by Alan Grayson deserves it. (The diary is entitled Kent State: "They Can't Kill Us All".) While I generally cringe at the idea of calling out an entire group of people, labeling them with scorn—in this case? All I can say is, "if the shoe fits, wear it."
From BlueJessamine:
In today's Midday Open thread, skywaker9 asks a question, and JML9999 answers it.
From pico:
Cheers to decembersue for the gift for beautiful understatement in explaining a recent market crisis. [Editor's note: you should probably start at RLMiller's comment before reading decembersue's nominated response for best results.]
From ericlewis0:
From my diary today about the strange fact that Russia has used nuclear explosions 4 times to prevent various underground petrocalamities not unlike the BP Gulf oil spill, Vinlander tells us the lesson to be learned.
From an unidentified Kossack Drewid:
In Pluto's diary TSA Agent Attacks when Security Reveals His Undersized Penis, Cartoon Peril's comment and ontheleftcoast's response made me chuckle.
From sardonyx (your Thursday diarist):
In Deep Harm's diary Exposed: Environmental coverup of the century, on how environmental factors too often get short shrift in cancer prevention and diagnosis, Ralphdog (a doctor) has been arguing this for years. Some interesting material downthread, too.
GenXangster on her family, fertility, and birth control.
After kos posts the results of a poll of Arizonans on Arizona's immigration law, a thread on Independents drew a couple of interesting comments on Independent voters, one from RandomActsOfReason, and another from self-proclaimed Independent (but Democratic voter) TKO333.
YucutanMan writes about the chilling deportee quotas that DHS immigration and border agents have built into their performance evaluations.
Williston Barrett reminded us last night that identification with the oppressor is a universal phenomenon.
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Finally, we have today's top mojo using my revision of the cskendrick-devised mojo-to-Excel process.
First, Top Mojo excluding Cheers and Jeers, miscellaneous cute animals, search-identifiable tip jars, and first diary comments:
1) glad to see you're back by terrypinder — 157
2) Only where it's called for by marykk — 149
3) Changed "has threatened" to "might" by MinistryOfTruth — 122
4) exactly! by alguien — 95
5) A Couple of Notes by bink — 90
6) 2 More Sens Back Sanders by pronin2 — 89
7) I agree...and to bonddad, you were WAY ahead... by APA Guy — 83
8) Darn you. by raptavio — 77
9) We the students were blamed for the defeat by FishOutofWater — 76
10) Let me ask you to make a correction by slinkerwink — 74
11) Bonddad,,, by Miss Blue — 71
12) Equivocator in Chief? by Andhakari — 70
13) My heart is with you. by viet vet — 69
14) I do not support a primary of Obama by slinkerwink — 69
15) Anybody not know what's going on yet?... by alamacTHC — 68
16) BP Deserves All the Scorn by JekyllnHyde — 68
17) Thank you so much for this and for all you do. by followyourbliss — 67
18) Good to see you back. by Dauphin — 65
19) He has a lot of baggage by mydailydrunk — 64
20) This is absolutely beyond the pale. by Colorado is the Shiznit — 63
21) What Was "Wrong" by Alan Grayson — 62
22) That Was the Point by Alan Grayson — 61
23) Welcome back by MeMeMeMeMe — 58
24) mee 2. one in 08, the other 09. it's so by hester — 57
25) Last week by Khun David — 57
26) Competence by VA Breeze — 57
27) Thanks so much, Rep. Grayson by Hookah — 56
28) kudos to Bernie Sanders - more Quotes on Fed by DM4 — 56
29) Extremely doubtful that you'll return full-time? by malharden — 56
30) Thank you, Congressman Grayson. by ThAnswr — 54
31) Lots of good news in this diary... by markthshark — 54
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) Tip Jar by bonddad — 678
2) Tip Jar by Alan Grayson — 415
3) Tips for transparency and accountability by MinistryOfTruth — 384
4) Tip Jar by pronin2 — 373
5) Tip Jar by alguien — 357
6) Tip Jar by Hesiod — 335
7) Tip Jar by TheOrchid — 328
8) Tip Jar by blackwaterdog — 256
9) Tip Jar by Ojibwa — 183
10) Tip Jar by slinkerwink — 175
11) Hopefully, in our next installment, by Crashing Vor — 164
12) Tip Jar by bigjacbigjacbigjac — 159
13) Tip Jar by TomP — 159
14) glad to see you're back by terrypinder — 157
15) Tip Jar by FishOutofWater — 155
16) Only where it's called for by marykk — 149
17) Watery tips... by Patric Juillet — 137
18) Tip Jar by DavidSegal — 128
19) Changed "has threatened" to "might" by MinistryOfTruth — 122
20) Second place in the SeaScum of the Day award by RLMiller — 121
21) exactly! by alguien — 95
22) A Couple of Notes by bink — 90
23) 2 More Sens Back Sanders by pronin2 — 89
24) I agree...and to bonddad, you were WAY ahead... by APA Guy — 83
25) Scritchie Jar by khloemi — 79
26) Darn you. by raptavio — 77
27) We the students were blamed for the defeat by FishOutofWater — 76
28) Let me ask you to make a correction by slinkerwink — 74
29) Tip Jar by Frederick Clarkson — 73
30) Tip Jar by gravlax — 72
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