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The 24-hour show of comity among House Republicans following the election of Democratic dreamboat Speaker Mike Johnson is officially over. That's bad news for the country, but even worse news for ...
by Kerry Eleveld
 114 comments
on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 01:50 PM PDT
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The Colorado State Open Thread is designed to entertain and enlighten Coloradoans and people interested in our state. I do sometimes have topics designed to provoke thought and I always seek to ...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Jun 05, 2023 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Since the story broke in the new Catholic online journal The Pillar regarding the outing of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, I have listened to many friends comment about what this means for the stance of the council of Catholic bishops. In some ways, it...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Thu Jul 22, 2021 at 02:48 PM PDT
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Due to the large and touching reception I received in my comments about homophobic comments here by Koskateers. I consider myself one also. A Koskateer. An of course a homophobe. All those nasty comments about “most” people in the closet are monsters...
by UnkBob
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on Mon Dec 07, 2020 at 04:39 PM PST
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Yes the Tigers are no good this year.
Yes they will not be good again for a few more years.
Yes Baseball can be boring to watch.
But I am going to the game tomorrow.
It is hard to ...
by BFSkinner
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on Wed Jun 26, 2019 at 04:28 PM PDT
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As a general idea, most people believe a person’s private life is their own and no one else’s business, if they’re not committing any crimes or hurting anyone else. However, like a lot of ...
by Doctor RJ
64 comments
on Mon Nov 12, 2018 at 07:30 PM PST
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Last Saturday, Carole Cadwalladr continued her amazing reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal with a report on whistleblower Shahmir Sanni.
In early 2016, Sanni was a 22-year-old recent graduate, volunteering with Vote Leave, the official...
by Chitown Kev
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on Mon Mar 26, 2018 at 09:09 PM PDT
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I don't watch reality television. I think I accidentally saw about a minute of Survivor last night before I found the remote and switched to PBS' Nature.
As far as I can tell, reality shows like Survivor are a cess pit of mean people displaying...
by rserven
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on Thu Apr 13, 2017 at 11:31 AM PDT
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Recent incidents of sock-puppetry, outing and accusations of paid campaign shilling have prompted us to remind long-time users and inform new ones that certain behavior is forbidden at Daily Kos. Thos
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Jan 06, 2016 at 10:34 AM PST
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As a gay man I am all too familiar with the price that LGBT youth pay when they are bullied or outed against their will.
The image above is of Jadin Bell who attempted suicide in ...
by AllenMcw
59 comments
on Sat Jun 06, 2015 at 04:28 PM PDT
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When I started this Monday morning, it was going to be about two events: Mike Michaud (D-Maine), who's running for governor, came out, maybe because he was running for governor and his Paleolithic ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Wed Nov 06, 2013 at 07:00 PM PST
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For a long time I resisted doing this, just because I didn't think it was a big issue.
My sexuality is supposedly a private thing, ya know? Something that you're not supposed to bother other ...
by detroitmechworks
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on Fri Sep 21, 2012 at 08:51 AM PDT
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A school district in Utah is defending its decision to report a middle ...
by cabaretic
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on Thu Dec 15, 2011 at 06:14 AM PST
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Glee is something of a TV guilty pleasure (increasingly guilty as it goes on), and isn't known for story coherence much of the time. But it is known for being very vocally supportive of ...
by colonelgreen
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on Wed Nov 30, 2011 at 02:40 PM PST
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This diary is cross posted to my blog , where I've embedded the image from the book "Straight News" and the vid from ...
by MPetrelis
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on Sun Aug 14, 2011 at 02:30 PM PDT
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You know that this woman is married to and is a homophobe of the first order. And that studies have shown that those that are the most virulently homophobic are also those the most stimulated by any ...
by Horace Boothroyd III
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on Thu Jul 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Tyler Clementi, was by all accounts a fairly shy freshman at Rutgers University. He may or may not have been gay, but we know for sure that he had at least one sexual encounter with a man. How do we ...
by Something the Dog Said
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on Thu Sep 30, 2010 at 05:58 AM PDT
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Mike Rogers the proprietor of BlogActive has just outed GOP Illinois Senatorial candidate Mark Kirk. Rogers is a Gay ...
by DaleA
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on Tue Jun 01, 2010 at 04:40 PM PDT
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Consider the evidence:
by TimTurnstone
95 comments
on Wed Apr 28, 2010 at 05:17 AM PDT
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And to think a few months ago, I thought South Carolina politics was just Ayn Rand fetishists and griping about immigration. Nope, it looks like Sanford's rendezvous with Maria was just the opening ...
by schmiss
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on Thu Sep 03, 2009 at 02:24 PM PDT
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