I'm a media myth, but my crazy roommate Is real

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Tuesday July 18, 2006 · 4:00 PM PDT

2006/07/18 · 16:00

Right now I'm cowering in my fucking closet with no food, no electricity, nothing but dirty water to drink, and my crazy ass roommate is pounding the shit out of the people next door. And the thing is, they're my best friends. Read More

Corrupt Blogger Shills Are Driving Me Away From This Site

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Thursday July 13, 2006 · 5:23 AM PDT

2006/07/13 · 05:23

Ethics is something I take very seriously. Transparency, disclosure, and blogger ethics are not mere trifles to be addressed with jocularity, whimsy, or supercilious snark. On the contrary; I fully intend to tread the opposite path on these subjects.
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Lieberman To Keep Senate Seat Even If He Loses General Election

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Monday July 03, 2006 · 6:26 PM PDT

2006/07/03 · 18:26

Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, who refused to give up his Senate seat while also running for the Vice Presidency in 2000, and who announced today that he will not give up his place on the November ballot should he lose in the Democratic primary on August 8, now says he has no intention of giving up his Senate seat even if he loses the general election. Read More

Betting on the Un-manliness of the Iraqis

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 3:29 PM PDT

2006/06/13 · 15:29

Bush's latest photo op with Iraqi President al-Maliki was a bit of a back-handed compliment. This man is supposedly the head of state of a 'sovereign nation'. Imagine if a foreign leader could fly secretly into Washington, land a chopper on the White House lawn, and barge into the President's quarters with 5 minutes notice!
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Peter Beinart is Pathetic

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 9:21 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 21:21

I just had the misfortune of watching The New Republic editor Peter Beinart on the O'Reilly Factor. He is the very exemplar of an Alan Colmes liberal; a craven fop.
While O'Reilly berated him for not sufficiently celebrating the death of Zarqawi, Beinart stuttered, begged, and practically pissed all over himself bashing liberals who are apparently all over the blogosphere shrilling (or whining, I forget which it is) that American troops are no better than Zarqawi.
He actually looked like he was going to cry several times. Read More

What the NSA is REALLY Doing?

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 2:32 PM PDT

2006/05/11 · 14:32

This NSA story has not fully been told. I have no secret knowledge, but I would like, in this short diary, to ask a question or two. A question that any moderately well-informed person might well ask.
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The Pressure of Representing the Left Wing Blogosphere is Really Getting to Me

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Monday April 17, 2006 · 3:25 PM PDT

2006/04/17 · 15:25

I was in the middle of keying some asswipe's Hummer this morning when I noticed a 'Support Our Troops" sticker on the bumper, and it struck me that the old lady watching from behind her curtains across the street might think I didn't support the moral retards who sign away their right to decide for themselves just who they're going to kill and who they're going to let live in this crazy world.
But that was just the beginning of very rough afternoon.
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When Elected Representatives Post

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 11:38 PM PDT

2006/04/06 · 23:38

Having been a reader here for a couple of years, I have seen the forum grow larger than I ever imagined. It has been very inspiring. The mission of DKos has expanded with this growth, and it's all been good, in my mind.
I was drawn here originally by the high quality of the writing. Way above the median out here on the internets. One recent diary, 'I Remember 13' stands out as an exemplar of that mindboggling combination of short form literary skill and emotional immediacy that great blog writing fosters.
Anyway, to my point. One of the developments is posting by elected representatives. Personally, I'm still uncynical enough to feel honored by it. I know others feel differently. Read More

The Reconstruction

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 7:18 PM PDT

2005/09/15 · 19:18

Watching the President in Jackson Square, one tiny, carefully scrubbed, professionally lit, super secure square in a vast sea of disaster, his weird self-conscious walk to his mark at the microphone, the statue of Andrew Jackson, knight on a horse, strategically placed over his shoulder. It didn't work. He looked tiny, awkward, the statue of the slaughterer of the Cherokee like some cheap toy in the background.
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Bush Baffles UN

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Wednesday September 14, 2005 · 6:51 PM PDT

2005/09/14 · 18:51

The most striking thing about the president's speech today was how little advance coverage it received in the American press. A gathering of the leaders of this many nations is a once in a decade occurence, yet barely mentioned either before, during, or after our own leader's speech.
I took this to mean the President's political advisors were afraid it would not show Bush in a good light, either because of heckling, or because they had seen the speech and thought it sucked. Therefore, I was looking forward to it.
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It was racism that killed thousands.

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Tuesday September 06, 2005 · 11:58 PM PDT

2005/09/06 · 23:58

There is no doubt or debate about this. Racism at its root; the fear of black skin.
That seemingly small little kind of racism that makes people lock their car doors when they find themselves in a black neighborhood; that fear run rampant, carried to its logical end, is a killer. It murdered thousands in New Orleans:
Helicopters thinking that signal shots fired by desperate people on rooftops were aimed at them, and that shuts down rescue efforts.
National guards too scared to slow down and pick people up, speeding by in their empty trucks;
Armed guards so scared of black skin they won't let people cross the bridge out of the Convention Center:
Bus drivers afraid to go in and bus people out until the situation is 'secure'.
Guards and cops shooting people they imagine are attacking them, when they are in fact, trying to get the attention of SOMEONE to get them out or to help.
Watch this video if you doubt it:
Charmaine Neville Talks:
http://www.wafb.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?qu=charmaine+neville&search=Search

Division of Labor

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Wednesday July 27, 2005 · 9:25 AM PDT

2005/07/27 · 09:25

The split in the AFL-CIO is a big deal. The main question is what was the SEIU/Teamsters problem with John Sweeney?
We all know that union membership is declining and has been for a long time. That AFL-CIO approach hasn't had much effect. Sweeney has put together the best and most comprehensive political operations the unions have ever seen in the past decade, but it hasn't slowed labor's declining political influence.
The split, as near as I can tell, and perhaps over-simplified, is a dispute over how much of labor's resources should be put into political activism, and how much into organizing.
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