so, why is murder a crime anyway?

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 10:11 PM PDT

2009/07/01 · 22:11

seriously - why do we have laws that make murder a crime? We all know murder is wrong, so why should we make it illegal? The market will sort it all out.

Of course, I suppose somebody will figure out a way to make a killing off of murder. That could really lead to some awkward social moments. Not to mention loss of life.

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Thursday February 12, 2009 · 10:01 AM PST

2009/02/12 · 10:01

By way of introduction, first let me say, I am not a crackpot. (Nor am I Abe Simpson.) My dKos user ID is 4486, fer cryin’ out loud. Maybe that doesn’t prove I’m no crackpot, but at least you know I’ve been around here for a while, even if few people actually read my rare attempts at diaries.

I’m "couch-blogging" today because I’m able to goof off a little bit on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday mornings. I have a four 10-hour day work week, instead of the usual five 8-hour variety. I have plenty to do today, mind you, but since I don’t have to hit the ground running like I do on other mornings, I like to slow down, have a nice breakfast, read a bit (online and off), watch a little TV, etc.

You know – relax and goof off a bit.

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Admit it - you love these shows about the paranormal. Which one is YOUR favorite?

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Admit it - you love these shows about the paranormal. Which one is YOUR favorite?

"Monster Quest"

9 votes

"UFO Hunters"

6 votes

"Paranormal State"

0 votes

"Scariest Places on Earth"

0 votes

"Most Haunted"

3 votes

"Ghost Hunters" and "Ghost Hunters International"

8 votes

"Celebrity Paranormal Project"

0 votes

"The O'Reilly Factor"

9 votes

other - please say what it is in comments

0 votes

If Palin Wins, the Terrorists Win.

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 11:34 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 11:34

Let me put this as succinctly as I can, my very good friends: should Sarah Palin ever become president, the terrorists have won. Game over. They pwn America.

Oh, I'm not talking about those terrorists. As long as Americans keep cowering in fear over them, as the Republicans would have us, we're Osama bin Laden's bitches.

No, I'm talking about a more fiendish, insidious form of terrorism. Terrorism of the home-grown variety.

Join me below the fold for more of this terrifying ripple-of-evil... if you dare!

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What independent "state" would YOU like to live in?

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What independent "state" would YOU like to live in?

Alaska

0 votes

Utohming

0 votes

Cascadia

2 votes

the Aryan State

0 votes

People's Republic of Santa Monica

3 votes

the Second Vermont Republic

5 votes

Kingdom of Hawaii

9 votes

the Conch Republic

5 votes

an altered state

5 votes

state of denial

1 vote

other (please specify in comments)

4 votes

Life is not a "Lifetime" movie, people.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 12:19 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 12:19

Oh yeah, I'll admit it - it's a great story. Sarah Palin's "story" would make a boffo "Lifetime Movie Network" movie...

(Tonight - on LMN: "Mommy Goes to Washington: the Sally Pullham Story")

"Sally," a plucky, noble, no-nonsense, good-looking soccer mom (only, get this: she's from the Frozen North, so she's a hockey mom!) gets involved with the local government of her "Northern Exposure"-like town out of a sense of duty, instilled in her by her crotchety, cantankerous (but heroic and noble) father.

(Editor's note: I'm thinking "Sally" should be played by Bonnie Hunt, or maybe Gina Gershon - god, that mouth; whoever it is they'll need to listen to a lot of skits from "Prairie Home Companion" to get her voice and cadence down. And "Pops" should be played, of course, by Wilford Brimley. And no "Sally, you'll never grow old" jokes, please.)

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/06/20 · 09:00

Yes, it's true. As I sit here at my laptop, craving a cigarette to go with my coffee, I have decided to quit smoking. And I'm doing it to support my candidate, and the future of my country.

Yes, Senator Obama, I have quit smoking - in your honor.

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 11:32 AM PST

2008/03/06 · 11:32

Look, I’m not one to promote wacky conspiracy theories, no matter how delicious they may be. We don’t know who "bombed" the military recruiting station in Manhattan early today; it literally could’ve been anybody. Hell, for all I know, it could’ve been al-Qaeda.
< /snark >

But let’s take a look at what we know about the bombing.

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so, who done it?

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so, who done it?

al-Qaeda

1 vote

"eco-terrorists"

5 votes

a white supremacist hate group

0 votes

a non-white supremacist hate group

3 votes

Rush Limbaugh, turned down by recruiters due to that butt pimple thing

19 votes

Basque separatists with a really bad GPS device

16 votes

Those kids I kicked out of my yard last night

22 votes

Oswald, acting alone

16 votes

the number one threat to America: bears!!

10 votes

I'm for Edwards... for A.G.

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Sunday December 30, 2007 · 10:39 AM PST

2007/12/30 · 10:39

Listen - I'm pretty happy with ALL of our nominees, more or less. Some more, some less, but still - every single Democratic nominee (other than Gravel, who I worry would probably forget to take his medication from time to time) would make a spectacularly better president than what we've had to live through the last seven years.

Not a single one of our nominees is The Source of All Evil. (That, of course, would be Dick Cheney.) None of them are heroes riding in on white magical horses to save us all. None is Al Gore.

I've gone back and forth between Edwards and Obama for a while now and, even though Edwards is still the only candidate I've given money to so far, I think now I'm leaning toward Obama, for reasons I just won't get into right now. (Another diary, another day.)

But I am leaning towards John Edwards - for Attorney General of the United States.

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Sunday June 24, 2007 · 8:20 AM PDT

2007/06/24 · 08:20

Senator Clinton, you are far - very, very far - from being my first choice for our presidential nominee. At best, you're my fourth choice. Fifth, if either Al Gore or Wes Clark were to enter the race. And that's only when I'm considering candidates who have a chance to win; I would definitely prefer Chris Dodd to you, for example, but he has about as much chance of winning the nomination as Tom Tancredo has of creating a welcome center for brown-skinned immigrants.

You are, for now, the front-runner in the race. (I repeat, for now.) And despite our difference on a number of issues, I've always kind of liked you. If someone can inspire such deep-seated, irrational hatred in wingnuts, they've got to be okay in my book.

I've always thought that, even though you've sold your soul to corporate interests and Beltway insiders for (likely ill-advised) political expediency, deep down you've got a good heart. And, when we need it the most, you will display good judgment.

Until now. Until this whole campaign theme song debacle.

Celine Dion?! Celine fucking Dion?!?!?

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Friday June 01, 2007 · 11:30 AM PDT

2007/06/01 · 11:30

... or maybe that should be "I'm a slutty technical virgin" waiting for Al Gore to notice me, while trying to keep John Edwards and Barack Obama interested in me, just in case.

Yes, it's getting harder and harder to keep my maidenhead intact, but my knight in shining armor smiled and winked at me a couple of times this week, so I'm holding out hope.

I'm using all this silly sexual metaphor in the most male heterosexual way, of course, and was inspired by this popular, recommended diary. But the fact remains - if Mr. Gore doesn't enter the race, my other suitors, while fine choices all (well, most of them anyway), will be second choices.

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Wednesday January 17, 2007 · 12:32 PM PST

2007/01/17 · 12:32

I was looking at the compiled dKos straw poll results, finding things that surprised me (and some that did not). I think polls are fascinating - I find them both encouraging and discouraging, sometimes at the same time.

Polls are slippery, ephemeral things. Polls are informative things. Polls are misleading things.

To paraphrase the Great (mis)Communicator, polls are stupid things.

The problem I'm having most with straw polls of our potential Democratic presidential candidates is that, well, I'm still pretty much undecided, dammit. Laugh at me if you will, but I think it's a pretty strong field. I could probably go at least five deep before I get to someone about whom I'd have to say, "Uh-uh, no way in hell."

I was a Clark man the last time, and I still love the General, but I can't honestly say he'd be my first choice right now. There are several I could get behind very easily, on any given day. I wish I could take the best qualities of Clark, Edwards and Obama and create a super candidate, a candidate for the ages. (Or, convince Gore to run.)

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The dKos "Proportional Poll" - an idea whose time has come?

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The dKos "Proportional Poll" - an idea whose time has come?

Yes

17 votes

1 vote

Maybe

3 votes

Give it a snappier name, then ask me

7 votes

Stephen Colbert hits a modest ground-rule double

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Sunday April 30, 2006 · 5:44 AM PDT

2006/04/30 · 05:44

Maybe it was my mood. Maybe it was my expectations. Maybe it was because I had watched almost two hours' worth of DVR'd "Colbert Report" episodes earlier. Or maybe I was on crack. Maybe it's a classic case of Rashomon Syndrome.

But, with apologies to elishastephens and TrueBlueMajority, I just didn't think Stephen Colbert did all that great a job at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night. I'd rate it as "okay" to "pretty good, but not great."

And, given that I think Colbert is possibly the funniest man on TV, "pretty good" was a disappointment. Read More

Jill Carroll attacked by National Review's John Podhoretz

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Thursday March 30, 2006 · 11:18 AM PST

2006/03/30 · 11:18

(Hat tips to Think Progress and AlterNet.)

Stand Strong diaried earlier on the Freeper's expected attacks on Jill Carroll. (The consensus: the typical wingnuttery about how she's a terrorist sympathizer and how the whole thing was probably faked anyway.)

Now, the "legitimate" right wing press (sic) is piling on. National Review's John Podhoretz seems to think that Ms. Carroll is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome (if not an outright TerrSymp^TM):

It's wonderful that she's free, but after watching someone who was a hostage for three months say on television she was well-treated because she wasn't beaten or killed -- while being dressed in the garb of a modest Muslim woman rather than the non-Muslim woman she actually is -- I expect there will be some Stockholm Syndrome talk in the coming days.

I'm sure J-Pod made a point of sending flowers first. Read More

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