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This is not a traditional diary in which I link to 6-7 different sources; and give brilliant analysis; but one in which I highlight just two snippets from a MUST READ piece in the current (online) ...

It is hard to beat the headline and opening of the Miami Herald article about the latest development in ...

Decades in university classrooms and research laboratories impressed me profoundly with the value of the Socratic method. I always made it a point to ask each student, "What do you think?" But ...

I don't normally do reposts, but I think that if there was ever a case for an exception, this is it. I mentioned on Sunday that a ...

President Obama was schedule to participate in Memorial Day ceremony at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., but a huge storm canceled the event. When he returned in the evening to ...

Speaker Pelosi pulled a brilliant move at the end of the last weeks legislative session. House Democrats are home for a long Memorial Day break with a gift-wrapped wedge issue ...

Senator Nelson released 4 new videos of gushing oil while NOAA declared the mission of the Pelican, it's only ship monitoring the oil at sea, accomplished. Deep water reef in the northern ...

Small Online Contributions Add Up to Huge Fund-Raising Edge for Obama ~ NYTimes Feb 20, ...

I have a very, very conservative brother. (Actually--full disclosure--I have two. And a father. I don't know what is wrong with the men in my family.) :-) The brother in question owns his own ...

Hello, Boomer. I'm Fishgrease. I'm known, mostly, for my comments on any number of diaries about the recent Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak/Volcano/Apocalypse. Before that, I was known here at DKos for ...