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Posting History for blue husky

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Newbie to newbie: why the cat diaries exist
Let me begin by saying that when I first joined the DKos I did not at all understand the whole cat diary thing. In fact in incensed me, enough to diary about it (if you care to go back in my diary ...
blue husky 05/06/2009 799 247 6 25
Married, almost 40, don't want kids.  WHY? Share your stories
I have reached an age where all the people in my cohort--all the friends that I've grown up with--have had kids by now. Except me. In recent years I've heard my best female friends tell me about ...
blue husky 06/10/2009 266 41 2 26
GUS GUS GUS Friday
It's Friday, GUSsacks and friends! I hope everybody's doing well and hanging in there as best as they can. Yay to the GUSsacks who have been on this journey with me! 1BQ ...
blue husky 06/19/2009 158 23 - 20
Newbie to newbie: cat diaries, Part 2
If you are a newbie on here, I bet you are wondering why people get so freaked about about the pootie diaries, pro or con. I already discussed why the pootie diaries matter, in an earlier entry. ...
blue husky 05/16/2009 153 25 - 18
Pooties and R-word and other DK horrid things, oh my!
So I just want to talk about some of my observations that I've acquired ever since I joined the DK back in October or whenever it was (check my UID, wowsers that figure could maybe pay off the ...
blue husky 01/30/2009 67 2 1 25
The Obama effect: encounter at the grocery store
Here's my own personal story of the Obama effect. It's not quite as profound as the diaries written by JeffLieber and others, but still, it was an experience that gave me pause and left me quite ...
blue husky 11/08/2008 49 13 - 18
Capitalism is dead.
Once upon a time there was a vast swath of land that, aside from the Natives and other beings that lived in it, could be had for the taking. This was the philosophy of those who had come to the ...
blue husky 05/20/2009 47 2 - -
Prop 8:  "They" are Us
I've been reading a lot of diaries here about how the "black vote" failed the gays by voting Yes on Proposition 8. Some of the diarists have been up in arms about it, and have vowed not to vote for "
blue husky 11/06/2008 34 13 1 9
Why science research is not a "special interest"
"Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed. Let's ...
blue husky 10/25/2008 22 21 - 6
A sugar-free cookie: kindness vs torture
This topic might have been covered in other diaries; if so, I apologize, and will delete if necessary. ________ There's a difference between how you might acquire real information, versus false ...
blue husky 06/04/2009 17 2 - 2
We the peeps (with woozles!)
For many years, I was utterly disengaged from politics--I read nothing in the news, I knew nothing, I didn't want to know nothing. Because I'd come to the conclusion that the news couldn't really ...
blue husky 03/16/2009 14 14 - 14
I've seen "real" America, and its name is Justice
There have been a couple diaries here in the last few days thanking Kos and other people on this site who have made a difference. I'd just like to take the time to extend my own thanks to all of ...
blue husky 10/31/2008 5 5 - -
What the stars hold
I was always, from my earliest days, what you would call an "underachiever": never really applied myself at school, never really applied myself much to the type of the things that society in general ...
blue husky 05/15/2009 2 4 - 1