Why I will fight until it is over

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Thursday April 07, 2016 · 2:16 PM PDT

2016/04/07 · 14:16

I still support Bernie Sanders. I will go on supporting Bernie Sanders until it is mathematically impossible (not merely difficult) for him to win. Why? Because he is the only candidate whose goal is to change how the system works.

evilpenguin

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Thursday November 08, 2012 · 6:56 PM PST

2012/11/08 · 18:56

Someone I know engaged in an online blog correspondence with a fundamentalist who was ranting about how the new dollar coins do not have "In God We Trust" on them and that this was yet more evidence on how God and Christians were being marginalized by a hostile government. When this person pointed out that "In God We Trust" is stamped in bold letters on the coin's edge (much like the Brits do with the "Dieu et Mon Droit" and other mottoes of the Court of St. James on their coins) her correspondent huffily replied "Well, if you can't see it, it isn't there!"

I remember my instant thought when I was first told this story: "You mean like GOD?!?"

Yes, I am an atheist, but I don't tell this story to denigrate religion. I'll tell you another story and how this all ties in with the Romney campaign after the fold.

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 7:52 PM PDT

2011/08/01 · 19:52

I don't know about you, but I often feel dwarfed by the scale of the problems and by the power arrayed against the "little guy." In amongst all of the (justifiable) noise and hubbub of the debt deal disaster, I'd like to ask you to do something small, something easy, to make life a little better for all the people of this country who work for a living.

More below the fold...

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Monday May 31, 2010 · 9:40 AM PDT

2010/05/31 · 09:40

Back in my college days, which were the late Reagan and Bush the Elder days, I decided to "read the other side." I wanted to see if my liberal prejudices were just that, or if they stood up to the ideas and rhetoric of the newly resurgent right. So I read them. I read "Right From the Beginning" by red meat xenophobe Pat Buchanan. I read "The Triumph of Politics" by David Stockman. I read "What I Saw at the Revolution" by Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan. I read "Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger.

My head did not explode. But let us just say the experience did NOT reverse my liberal leanings. It rather enhanced them.

Which brings us to this morning...

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 11:29 AM PDT

2008/08/02 · 11:29

Two odd, unrelated things coincided in my UK hotel room tonight. Two things that have me thinking about what politics means, at the core, where political economy meets philosophy, where looking back meets looking forward, where red meets blue, war meets achievement, and choral singing meets particle physics. More below the fold...

evilpenguin

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 11:07 AM PDT

2008/03/14 · 11:07

Yes, I've been away for a while. And I'll be away again. My life is quite crazy with my trying to launch a technology business while still keeping the company that owns my mortgage company afloat.

But I recently received the seasonal invitation to buy a harvest share from my CSA and there were a number of surprises therein that brings me to write another of these little diaries. Details on the flip.

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19 votes Show Results

Same as last time: Where are you with respect to CSAs?

19 votes Vote Now!

Same as last time: Where are you with respect to CSAs?

Never heard of them before now

9 votes

Have heard of them but never tried

4 votes

I have used a CSA and quit for no particular reason

2 votes

I have used a CSA and quit due to a poor experience

1 vote

I have used a CSA and quit because I couldn't make the pickup

0 votes

I use a CSA and I'm disappointed with it

0 votes

I use a CSA right now and I'm happy with it

2 votes

I will try a CSA when I get a round TUIT

1 vote

Kermit Wrong: It IS Easy Being Green, Ep. 4 Open House

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 2:43 PM PDT

2007/07/02 · 14:43

Last year I joined a CSA for the first time. This year, I visited my CSA during their open house and got to talk at length with the proprietors. As is usual, reality was not at all like my preconceptions.

I found their story interesting. And I'll share some of it with you below the fold...

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18 votes Show Results

Where are you with respect to CSAs?

18 votes Vote Now!

Where are you with respect to CSAs?

Never heard of them before now

3 votes

Have heard of them but never tried

6 votes

I have used a CSA and since quit for no particular reason

0 votes

I have used a CSA and since quit due to poor experience

2 votes

I have used a CSA and since quit because I couldn't find time for the pickup

0 votes

I use a CSA and I'm disappointed with it

0 votes

I use a CSA right now and I'm happy with it

5 votes

I will try a CSA when I get a round TUIT

2 votes

Corporate Evil Pt. 1; The Lay of the Land

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 11:40 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 11:40

Today's diary on the Treasury investigation into Michael Moore's trip to Cuba sparked a number of interesting and lively comment threads. Many were about the evils of corporations and their utter heartlessness.

Whenever I see a sort of mob mentality (even a justified one) I have a natural instinct to say "Whoa! Wait a minute. Is this true just because everyone is saying it?" After all, Satan did not invent the corporation. People did. People did it for compelling reasons. If they are acting in an evil way, perhaps we should consider how and why that came to be. Nobody sets out to create evil monsters (with the possible exception of Hubert Farnsworth) so how did we get here? Are corporations evil?

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Tuesday March 27, 2007 · 12:10 PM PDT

2007/03/27 · 12:10

Today's mail contained a welcome and pleasant surprise. A small inkjet printed brochure, list, and subscription slip. It invited me to look into joining the local CSA.

No, the CSA is not the Confederate States of America. Well, it was, but today those initials stand for Community Supported Agriculture and it is yet another small thing you can do to move your life closer to sustainability without having to give up your nice lifestyle.

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57 votes Show Results

Where are you with respect to CSAs

57 votes Vote Now!

Where are you with respect to CSAs

Never heard of them before now

6 votes

Have heard of them but never tried

19 votes

I have used a CSA and since quit for no particular reason

5 votes

I have used a CSA and since quit due to poor experience

2 votes

I use a CSA and I'm disappointed with it

1 vote

I use a CSA right now and I'm happy with it

11 votes

I will try a CSA this season

9 votes

I will try a CSA when I get a round TUIT

4 votes

What My Dog Taught Me About Environmental Destruction

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Monday March 05, 2007 · 10:16 AM PST

2007/03/05 · 10:16

I have a wonderful eight and a half month old Great Dane puppy. Over the last two months she taught me something about why we don't do anything about the destruction of our environment.

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 12:45 PM PST

2007/01/19 · 12:45

In December of 1984, John Fogerty, former front man of Creedence Clearwater Revival, released a single called "The Old Man Down the Road." The song was part of the album "Centerfield," the eponymous song now being a standard part of American Baseball, practically on a par with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." "The Old Man Down the Road" would be just another solid "roots influenced" song from Fogerty were it not for the bizzare sequel to the release of the song.

In Februrary 1985, Fantasy Records sued John Fogerty for copyright infringement. The claim? That "The Old Man Down the Road" copied another song, "Run Through the Jungle." Who wrote and performed "Run Through the Jungle?" John Fogerty. Fogerty found himself in court having to defend himself against a charge of plagarizing... himself.

Follow me through the looking glass....

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 9:52 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 09:52

After a lot of contributing, a little volunteering, and a long, long night of actually leaving DailyKos alone (!), this tired Minnesota Democrat is ready to comment on what happened here.

I'm sure this little missive will be lost in the weighty tide of election diaries, but what the heck.
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