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Saturday September 14, 2013 · 8:31 AM PDT

2013/09/14 · 08:31

President Obama may be dealing with a lunatic driver in a game of Chicken, the 14th Amendment may be the only option.

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Tuesday August 06, 2013 · 9:00 AM PDT

2013/08/06 · 09:00

I have not written a diary for a while so bear with me if my style is a bit rusty. I was wasting time on the Internet when I should have been getting other things done and I came across this conservative website called "The Daily Caller," I think it was founded by Fox News commentator, bow-tie aficionado, and all-round pissant Tucker Carlson. I noticed that the most popular "article" on the website right now is this: "Obama backs race-based school discipline policies."

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Thursday September 27, 2012 · 8:32 PM PDT

2012/09/27 · 20:32

I've noticed something interesting lately coming out of the ether that has corresponded with Obama's rise in the polling. Republican activists and assorted right-wingers are seeing the writing on the wall and attempting to discredit an increasingly likely Obama re-election by framing Obama supporters as "too stupid" to understand the real issues.

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 12:22 AM PDT

2010/11/03 · 00:22

The next few years are going to be very different than the previous two. Practically nothing of substance is going to get done, everything is going to be about ideological and tactical battles.

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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 3:30 PM PDT

2010/11/02 · 15:30

Men will be happier when society has a less one-dimensional view of what it means to be a man, or how to talk to non-feminist (aka conservative) men about feminism.

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 9:03 PM PDT

2010/10/31 · 21:03

It hard to escape the reality of this year's mid-term elections. This hits particularly close to home for people in my age cohort and younger whether people want to acknowledge it or not. People aged 40 (maybe even 55) and younger are going to be the biggest losers this year.

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Saturday October 30, 2010 · 9:02 PM PDT

2010/10/30 · 21:02

Ron Johnson for Senator of Dumbeddownistan (Part I & II)
One of the things that strikes me the most about Ron Johnson is his lack of substance, especially when compared to Russ Feingold's well thought out positions. Analyzing Ron Johnson is really quite easy to do because there is so little there to work with. His website lists 11 "issues" with paragraph length solutions. Man, if life were only that simple. So, here's a quick analysis of Ron Johnson on the issues:

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 10:03 PM PDT

2010/10/29 · 22:03

I thought this up while trying to think about ways to talk about racism to tea party folks (alas, they are not colorblind). I think we all need to problematize peoples' conceptions of race. Note: I know racism is more than black and white, but this conference dealt mainly with black/white conceptions of race.

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Friday October 29, 2010 · 4:36 AM PDT

2010/10/29 · 04:36

Economic globalization, particularly the free movement of goods and capital, has had a profound impact on our society. It is hard to gauge the direction and consequences of open markets on our society, as this new competition permeates nearly everything. From a strictly economic point of view, free trade and the free mobility of capital redounds to the advantage of everyone, the general person. However, it is well known the the "particular" person can be very seriously affected in a ruthlessly negative way by global trade/global capital. To free market fundamentalists, someone who is displaced by market competition should simply retool and re-skill for another job. To me, this is too narrow and economistic. There are some things in society that are worth saving, even at the cost of market efficiency, from a social health perspective.

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Thursday October 28, 2010 · 6:44 AM PDT

2010/10/28 · 06:44

Tea PartyKarl Marx casts an outsized shadow over this year's midterm elections. If you listen to the news media these days, particularly the crazy stuff on AM radio or anything that comes out of the mouth of the likes of Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, you'll be led to believe that Marxists are everywhere. They are in the highest levels of government (particularly the White House), but also in the schools, in the media, an especially in academia. Heck, Marxists could be your neighbor, your kids could be Marxists, maybe your priest is a Marxist. Man, your kid goes to college and comes back a Marxist. You know, the Soviets had a 100-year plan to plant Marxists in all levels of American society so they could be anywhere. Well those may be the "Marxists" that haven't really read Marx, like Barack Obama. If I were a Radical Marxist, I'd join the Tea Party.

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