It's Time to Tell the Truth about Maytag, John
Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina and perennial Presidential Candidate John Edwards needs to come clean to the folks in Iowa. It's just the right thing to do.A 527 group, callling itself Working...
View ArticleLet us wish the best for Dr. Hawking 20090420
I have been informed that Dr. Stephen Hawking has been taken to hospital for a very serious lung affliction. Please hope with me that he recovers.To those who are not familiar with him, he is the...
View Articlewhy jp ain't smart
How do we have education that creates such morons as what we see at Tea Parties, television, and congress? It may have to do with an education system that is out of touch.
View ArticleIA Workers' Victory Shows Need For Labor Law Reform
Crossposted at Bleeding Heartland.Workers at Iowa's leading manufacturer of wind turbine towers successfully took on company intimidation and two union-busting firms to express their right to join a...
View ArticleLiberals are poseurs
Whether we like it or not we tend to be energized by extremism, becoming the most enthusiastic about extremism when it reflects ideologies to which we adhere, otherwise our enthusiasm is an induced...
View ArticleFantasy Fun 20101018: Let's Have Dinner Together
Well, not you and me particularly, but with some historical figures. This was sort of spurred by Keith Olbermann's story about Michele Bachmann's list of people with whom she would like to have...
View Article3 days left- don't you want to win an ipad2 from ProgressiveCongress.org
If you know me, you know that I like to joke around a lot but this diary is no joke
View ArticlePique the Geek 20110925: Faster than Light
The recent results from CERN (the acronym for the original name for the outfit, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) about neutrinos being propagated faster than light speed has caught a lot...
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Syzygy 10 Ted Nugent & Newton's Apple
L.L. syzygia • Gk. syzygia "yoke, pair, union of two, conjunction"• syzygein "yoke together" The syzygy between Ted Nugent and Newton's Apple dropped on my head last week. Their connection was...
View ArticleIn Honor of Newton: Thanks for the teacher from a teacher
In the light of the horror of reading about what went on in Newton I can't help but finding myself to reflect on what I would do as a teacher if heaven forbid the unthinkable would happen. This is...
View Article22 Kids Hurt in China with A Knife. 18 Kids Killed in America with a Gun.
Daily Kos: "22 Kids Hurt in China with A Knife. 18 Kids Killed in America with a Gun."dailykos.com/story/2012/12/…#Newton— therehastobeaway (@THTBAW) December 14, 2012Maybe we can learn something here....
View ArticleI Hugged Him A Little More Tonight
I'm still a little teary right now. I was so busy today at work that the first I heard of the terror wrecked upon small town America today was during a break in during my NPR's stations news update...
View ArticleUnopened Presents
This is an area where I claim no expert knowledge, nor do I profess to have any of the answers, even if the Diary does throw out a few suggestions worth discussing. No, like the rest of humanity I was...
View ArticleBlastomeres are Worth Protecting, Six and Seven-Year-Olds Not So Much
And that's the straw that broke the camel's back.
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Mike Huckabee and Bryan Fischer
Former governor, Fox News host and all-around meathead Mike Huckabee attempted today to walk back his comments linking a lack of religion in schools to Friday's tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut....
View ArticleWhy My Father Gave Up His Guns
I'm reposting this, from yesterday, with an UPDATE:My father grew up in the country, where, as a boy he hunted and fished and went off for days on hunting trips by himself.At 17, Dad joined the Navy,...
View ArticleDeath threat prompts police response to Newtown church on Sunday
When does this end? .. Oh, it doesn't. I have continued to post excessive diaries on this- some repetitive. And as an assoc editor, this is not my field- but with a rather extensive gun history from...
View ArticleA thank you note to gun rights supporters from the Future Mass Murderers of...
A thank you note to gun rights supporters from the Future Mass Murderers of America. By George L. Cook III AA reports.comTo the N.R.A. and all of the guns rights supporters out there.Hello. I am the...
View ArticleThank you, President Obama. FU, Charles Krauthammer.
President Barack Obama's speech tonight in Newtown was superb. I won't attempt to quote any of it; it was eighteen minutes long, and every American should watch it, in its entirety (now embedded...
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