Hey dKos Puritans: Censor This!

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Saturday January 21, 2006 · 1:25 AM PST

2006/01/21 · 01:25

Be careful what you wish for, liberal Puritans! Remember when you ganged up on the guy who committed the horrible sin of printing gory war pictures without saying the Daily Kos magic words, i.e., how horrible war is and how terrible the Bush administration is?

You recall Chris Wilson, I'm sure. He's the one who ran the amateur porn site that gave free memberships to deployed soldiers. To prove that they were deployed they had to send a picture of themselves in the field. About 15% of the pics were extremely gory; Wilson printed all the pics, gory and otherwise. But the liberal blogosphere, led by John Aravosis at Americablog, spread the lie that Wilson was running a "gore for porn" site. Read More

Hey Hypocrities: Is The New Yorker A GOP Troll, Too?

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 3:41 PM PST

2006/01/19 · 15:41

Back on January 4 I posted a dairy titled dKos Hyprocrites Defend Corruption, Censor Criticism. It pointed out that one-third of the Abramoff keiretsu's "contributions" went to Democrats, and took the liberals here to task for lying about that and for imposing de facto censorship on me for departing from the group-grope orthodoxy.

Naturally, I was called every name in the book in response, for hell hath no fury like that of a Stalinist scorned. No, I'm not coming back here other than post this, and of course, to read the comments from the peanut gallery when I point out that the latest issue of The New Yorker signed on the essence of my reading of the Abramoff scandal. Read More

dKos Hyprocrites Defend Corruption, Censor Criticism

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Wednesday January 04, 2006 · 2:08 PM PST

2006/01/04 · 14:08

Honest, it doesn't surprise me. None of it. I've been around the blogosphere long enough to have seen it. Like the hated MSM, the first rule of the blogosphere is Tell 'em what they want to hear. The second rule is Don't talk about the first rule.

At this blog, at this moment, that translates into: Don't criticize Democratic involvement in the Abramoff scandal. Even though the Abramoff keiretsu gave one-third of its money to Democratic candidates, officeholders and organizations, you've got people on this blog busy making every excuse they can for it. Read More

Census Projections & The Democratic Party's Future

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Sunday January 01, 2006 · 3:06 PM PST

2006/01/01 · 15:06

There aren't a whole lot of surprises here, but I thought I'd give a summary. Here is the raw data, but it's a huge file. I went through it and did some winnowing. I didn't know how to program the spreadsheet to calculate changes in electoral votes, and I don't know where I can post the spreadsheet so everyone can see it.

If anyone wants me to post it somewhere, tell me where to post it and I'll do so. Bear in mind that I'm not a computer geek so keep your instructions simple! Please! Read More

Higher Minimum Wage: Brought to You By The G.O.P.

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Friday December 30, 2005 · 3:58 PM PST

2005/12/30 · 15:58

Call this one another lost opportunity for the Democratic Party. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed raising CA's minimum wage to $7.25 this fall and $7.75 by July 2007. Why is a Republican out front on that issue?

Yeah, I know. A few days ago there was an article in The Boston Globe that quoted Democrats saying they were prepared to make a minimum wage increase an issue in 2006. Whoever told it to The Globe was too timid to attach a number, so Arnold went ahead and did it for them. And in doing so, I think he snatched that candy bar right out of the stroller. Read More

Support A Liberal's Milblog

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Thursday December 29, 2005 · 4:18 PM PST

2005/12/29 · 16:18

Introductory note: I'm still sort of new at dKos, so I don't know the drill on how to ask people to "recommend" a diary. I'm hoping this one gets recommended -- not because I've got some didactic point to make, but because it mentions a blog that really deserves support from folks here.

There's a whole genre of "milblogs" out there, purporting to be of, by and about the soldiers deployed overseas. The vast majority of these blogs are stalking horses from the Republican Party -- to the degree that I genuinely wonder if some of them aren't being written by the Pentagon itself, or various rightwingnut partisan groups.

I found something different, an exception to the rule. This is an appeal for people to support it. Read More

NSA Threat? Did The Gov't Arrest Anyone? But How About This Case?

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 5:04 PM PST

2005/12/20 · 17:04

After reading some comments I decided to make a change. Daily Kos has been quite aflutter over the NSA spying. Nothing wrong with that. It's a damned serious issue.

But guess what? At least so far, no one has been arrested because of that spying. This is not so in the case of Chris Wilson, a Florida website owner who found himself in jail only a few months after "outraged" liberal bloggers went crazy about the content on his site.

To me, his case worries me as much as anything. It is one of those scary times where sound collides with color and the political continuum turns into a Moebus strip. You glance over in the dark, and suddenly you see a liberal and a wingnut standing together, one hand washing the other. That's when we all ought to look in the mirror and ask ourselves what, apart from our labels, we actually believe in. Read More

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