W&M students elect transgender person to Homecoming Court

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Thursday October 29, 2009 · 7:23 AM PDT

2009/10/29 · 07:23

In the spirit of "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then," the usually conservative College of William and Mary, which saw fit to grant me a bachelor's degree 22 years ago, is finding itself being dragged into the 21st Century whether it -- or more accurately, its administration -- likes it or not. And much of this is due to the courage of one person who isn't afraid to break with tradition ... and the students who ignored the stereotypes and voted without prejudice.

The story is revealed below the fold ....

Sinfonian

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Tuesday October 13, 2009 · 2:27 PM PDT

2009/10/13 · 14:27

So this morning, while on Twitter making fun of Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele and his almost-too-laughably-stereotypical-to-be-true decision to call his new blog "What Up?," I noticed that the RNC's website had taken the clever step of superimposing people's faces over the "O" in "GOP." Gives it that "real person" vibe and all that, see?

Some examples and the mistake you came here to see below the fold....

Sinfonian

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Thursday October 08, 2009 · 3:28 PM PDT

2009/10/08 · 15:28

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), after consulting with Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), one of the five Democratic senators who voted against Sen. Jay Rockefeller's (D-W. Va.) public option proposal in the Senate Finance Committee last week (another was Florida's own Bill Nelson)*, is circulating a compromise health care reform proposal that purportedly is gaining some traction among moderate Democrats and Republicans alike. Under the Schumer/Carper plan, a vigorous public option would be included in the final bill, but individual states themselves would have an "option:" to "opt out" of the federal scheme. But, in a situation when the "public option" already is a compromise -- we've already backed down from single-payer to get to the "public option" level -- this is a further compromise that is both unwise and unnecessary.

More below the fold ....

Sinfonian

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Wednesday June 03, 2009 · 7:28 AM PDT

2009/06/03 · 07:28

One of the candidates to lead the North Carolina Republican Party is suing a radio talk show host and the host's employer for defamation, alleging that the host said the candidate was gay.

Tom Fetzer, a former Raleigh mayor, said Tuesday he filed the lawsuit late Monday in Wake County Superior Court seeking a jury trial and monetary damages to defend and protect his name. He accuses Curtis Wright, who hosts a morning drive-time show aired on two stations, of forwarding an anonymous letter about Fetzer that Wright knew to be false.

Fetzer, a former political consultant who once worked with the late Sen. Jesse Helms, is one of four announced candidates seeking to succeed Linda Daves as party leader at the state GOP convention June 13 in Raleigh.

"It is justice that I seek, not vengeance," Fetzer said in a statement.

You'll see exactly what Fetzer claims below the fold.

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 9:53 AM PDT

2009/04/16 · 09:53

I've been asked to diary my experiences from yesterday's Tea Party in Pensacola, Fla., the one that was on the open thread this morning and has shown up on a number of other blogs (including my own, of course -- the place where it all started). I don't want to be redundant, but if you want to know how it happened, I'll tell you about it below the fold.

Oh, yeah, if you missed the video somehow, here you go:

Sinfonian

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Tuesday July 22, 2008 · 9:08 PM PDT

2008/07/22 · 21:08

(Originally published at Blast Off!, which explains the odd narrative form wrt Daily Kos; I opted to leave it as is rather than try to edit around it here.)

It's no secret that I've not been much of a fan of Daily Kos ever since the front-pagers there took on their holier-than-thou attitude about progressivism, essentially becoming almost DLC-ish in their refusal to confront misbehaving (i.e., insufficiently progressive) Democrats. Long-time Blast Off! readers -- both of you -- might recall my little flame war (okay, I diaried, they flamed) back in '06 when I dared to criticize then-Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for taking impeachment off the table. Oddly, the Kossacks changed their tune a year later ... but I digress.

[more below the fold]

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 6:59 AM PST

2008/03/08 · 06:59

The internets are a great thing. They help us remember things we might otherwise forget. For example, when we had to ask that important question about whether Huggy Bear is a criminal.

Raise your hand if you remember the Keating Five. Chris Suellentrop of Slate does, and he wrote about Huggy's membership in that elite club back in 2000:

(continued below the fold)

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Sunday February 10, 2008 · 6:36 PM PST

2008/02/10 · 18:36

Proving once again that it's foolhardy to cite Dan Gerstein as an authority on anything except what it means to be an idiot, some überwingnut named Warner Todd Huston (he supports Alan fucking Keyes, for crying out loud!) takes Kos and the Kossacks to task for their support of the "angry populist" John Edwards, saying that the victories of "unity" candidates like Joe Lieberman (gag!) prove that this blog "has lost the contest for the hearts and minds of the Democrat Party."

More below the fold ...

Sinfonian

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 3:27 PM PDT

2007/10/18 · 15:27

As the National League champion Colorado Rockies enjoy their record-long eight-day layoff before the World Series, where they'll meet either the Cleveland Indians or the Boston Red Sox, there's one thing they're likely to do a lot of besides working out:

Praying.

More below the fold ...

Sinfonian

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Wednesday September 12, 2007 · 8:49 AM PDT

2007/09/12 · 08:49

I received an e-mail this morning about the rally on Saturday in D.C., where I'll be joining thousands of my closest DFH friends.

Check out who's speaking at the rally, below the fold ...

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Ralph Nader's presence at the White House rally on Saturday is

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Ralph Nader's presence at the White House rally on Saturday is

exciting

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appropriate

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inappropriate

18 votes

disgraceful

41 votes

I don't know

2 votes

I don't care

24 votes

How Kossacks view impeachment -- then and now

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Monday July 16, 2007 · 12:30 PM PDT

2007/07/16 · 12:30

I don't mean to whine about being flamed -- certainly, I can take it, and I did, plenty of it -- but I can't help but laugh a little at the way things have changed around here in just a few short months ... basically not much more than a Friedman Unit.

I've got to go below the fold to go further ... but I'm amazed at how Kossacks are responding to the idea of taking impeachment off the table when it's Sen. Feingold doing the taking ... but last fall, when I said Speaker Pelosi was ignoring a mandate by doing the same thing, I was roundly castigated in these here parts ...

But let's continue below the fold ...

Sinfonian

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Tuesday January 09, 2007 · 3:06 PM PST

2007/01/09 · 15:06

Not to take away from another similarly directed diary, but it's misleading to say that Chimpy "gave up" on four judicial nominees today. In fact, they withdrew their own nominations ... either way, though, this is sweet.

I've long held that the real, long-term effect of elections occurs in the only non-elected branch of federal government: the judiciary. Therefore, I can conceive of no better early example of the positive effect from Democratic control of Congress than this (let's go below the fold):

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