National March for Healthcare Reform

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday July 30, 2009 · 4:48 AM PDT

2009/07/30 · 04:48

Sounds like a good idea, yes?

So often people only take to the streets to say "No!" - to a war or to a tax hike or to polluters dumping shit near where they live.

Not that these aren't all worthy causes, but some of the most effective mass protests have been FOR issues - the civil rights movement, voting rights for women, just to name a couple.

Poll

1246 votes Show Results

National March?

1246 votes Vote Now!

National March?

Yes, great idea

1144 votes

Maybe

56 votes

No, bad idea

35 votes

pie

11 votes

Fear of a Black First Lady

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday February 23, 2008 · 9:17 AM PST

2008/02/23 · 09:17

This diary refers to an article currently being circulated in wingnut email boxes around academia, written by a young fellow named Barry Caro. Barry Caro is a senior at Princeton, Michelle Obama's alma mater, and he seems to have taken it upon himself to skew and distort her speeches, make insinuations about her thesis, and draw all sorts of false inferences about her character from quotes taken out of context.

I think it might be important to address these points head-on and immediately since these sorts of blockhead points have a funny way of finding their way into the MSM. God knows how :)

Debunking after the flip.

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday February 08, 2008 · 10:31 AM PST

2008/02/08 · 10:31

ATTN: This is an idea I came up with looking for a tool which might already exist. I was unable to find it, and if it does exist here, I'll take this diary down and stand in the corner :)

UPDATED: 2:14PM Made some changes based on the feedback. Thanks everyone.

Just browsing around checking out people who commented on my comments, I really wish DKos had an OPTIONAL tool for users that would let them keep a list of friends. If people wanted, then they could create their own policy papers, and platforms. "Factions" would result (maybe this is a bad name for what I'm trying to express here) but I mean "Factions" in a good way, not in an infighting type way. Sort of in a way that makes people more productive on the site - able to create and belong to sub-communities as well as to the larger comunity. This is the kind of situation that evolves naturally when a group reaches a critical mass.

I mean why not? DKos seems so huge a place with so many varieties of "progressives" that to be a DKo's reader doesn't mean much anymore. I can't identify myself anymore, in shorthand, which makes it hard for people to get together without wasting a lot of time futzing around trying to figure out where they're coming from.

Poll

29 votes Show Results

Are you into this idea

29 votes Vote Now!

Are you into this idea

yes

7 votes

maybe, if it was done the way I want

2 votes

no - for non-orwellian reasons

10 votes

no - for orwellian reasons

8 votes

pie

2 votes

WGA - David Milch's "The Idea of the Writer"

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 10, 2008 · 8:51 PM PST

2008/01/10 · 20:51

I want to share with the DKos community a video series entitled The Idea of the Writer that have just been published online (FREE!), which David Milch has done during the writer's strike, addressing issues of writers vs. bosses, as well as such diverse and varied topics. Fair warning: expect equal measures of the sacred and profane :)

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday April 17, 2007 · 11:01 AM PDT

2007/04/17 · 11:01

"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," said Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker.

How often, in the wake of some apparently senseless rampage, do we hear the killer's neighbors say the cliche: "He kept to himself mostly"? Well there is truth in cliches.

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday April 03, 2007 · 11:12 AM PDT

2007/04/03 · 11:12

Somewhere there is a soldier in a foxhole fighting off the Arab hordes. He reaches for another clip but finds his ammo box empty! As he goes down under a sea of turbans his last words are: "Damn that Democrat Congress!"

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday January 14, 2007 · 11:43 AM PST

2007/01/14 · 11:43

Like many of you, I find watching and listening to Joe Lieberman lately so nauseating, so appalling, that I find I have to swallow repeatedly just to keep the bile level below my larynx.

Here we have a man who has no problem being a complete traitor to his constituents, by utterly reversing his campaign promises within a few short months of his election. Promises he made both during the primaries and the general.

But we're stuck with him, right? Since without him, we have no majority. But are we really?

Poll

148 votes Show Results

Is getting a Sen(R) to switch at all plausible?

148 votes Vote Now!

Is getting a Sen(R) to switch at all plausible?

yes

56 votes

23 votes

maybe

47 votes

you're fucking nuts

22 votes

North Korea Nuke Analysis

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday October 10, 2006 · 10:05 AM PDT

2006/10/10 · 10:05

According to this article, North Korea's latest nuclear test has been measured at 500 tons of TNT. What would such a blast really look like? Read More

Will the Democrats really improve the process?

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday October 07, 2006 · 9:39 PM PDT

2006/10/07 · 21:39

For some of us, this question is easy to answer in the affirmative. But for others, perhaps more than care to admit, the answer is "well, they can't be worse". I'm one of those others.

I have faith in the netroots with regard to this question, but NOT the Democratic party as a whole. Frankly, I fear that beltway Dems are just as likely to sell out to corporate interests as the Republicans are. And I do NOT want the energy, money and time I put in trying to elect them going to waste. And so I ask, will Democrats really improve the legislative process? Read More

Through the Looking Glass

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday September 18, 2006 · 9:09 AM PDT

2006/09/18 · 09:09

I'm a sports fan, so I'm going to use a sports metaphor. "Take it one game at a time." So with that huge caveat in place, let me say, I'm a total geek, so I'm going to use a chess metaphor. "Anticipation is good preparation".

What will a series of netroots victories in 2006 mean for the establishment/anti-establishment conflict within the Democratic party? Read More

"Crashing The Gate" with Power, Seduction, and War

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday September 16, 2006 · 10:43 AM PDT

2006/09/16 · 10:43

I'm currently rereading "Crashing the Gate" and learning much to dismay me about the establishment forces within the Democrats, the party I (currently) support. But also on my reading list lately is the fascinating 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. For those who haven't heard of this book, its an extremely engaging and challenging collection of axioms and short historical narratives on how to maximize power, both politically and personally, and it dovetails with much of what Kos writes in his book.

Robert Greene also has a blog... Read More

The so-called "Right To Exist"

pawlr

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday July 24, 2006 · 10:47 AM PDT

2006/07/24 · 10:47

Much fuss has been made over Hezbollah's position that Israel has no "right to exist". This has been trumpeted as ample reason for excising them from Lebanon with a rusty scalpel, no anesthesia. But when you think about it, I have to admit Hezbollah is right... Read More

Newer
Older

RSS

National March for Healthcare Reform

Fear of a Black First Lady

SUGGESTION: Facebook type tool for DKOs: "Factions"

WGA - David Milch's "The Idea of the Writer"

Guns and social isolation: the Cho in all of us.

Dude, where's my ammo?

First Flip a Senator from R->I, then Dump Joe

North Korea Nuke Analysis

Will the Democrats really improve the process?

Through the Looking Glass

"Crashing The Gate" with Power, Seduction, and War

The so-called "Right To Exist"