"Uncle Tom? Really?"
Ralph Nader was an incredible and tireless consumer advocate who demanded that the products sold to consumers meet standards that protected citizens' safety. In addition, he helped give voice and...
View ArticleJoe the Schmoe
Over the last week, there has been a lot of (virtual) blood lust for Joe Lieberman- to punish him for his decision to become Hawk Extraordinaire and to rather foolishly support John McCain- and even...
View ArticleThankful for wrongness
I am so deeply thankful today. The economy is in tatters, and everything really looks gloomy. Yet, I have friends, family, a job and a feast with wine to go to. I am so very fortunate and happy. I am...
View ArticleSo, what are YOU doing?
For the past two weeks, there has a great deal of "I am SOOOOO angry that Obama has done XYZ". Extraordinary. You would have thought that the Democrats lost, that hundreds pf thousands of us did not...
View ArticleWhite skin privilege, Prop 8 and gay rights
This is part of what are you doing I said I would ask to myself and to others on Daily Kos. Since the November 4th election, and the passage of the odious Prop 8, there has been some very interesting...
View ArticleAnn Coulter, go away
So, when I was watching the morning news shows, having a nice cup of chocolate, and here's Ann Coulter, blabbing and hawking her newest book, "Guilty"- another spew about how liberals are yet again...
View ArticlePDX, OR Politics: Damnit, Sam!
The day before the inauguration, news came that Sam Adams, Mayor Elect of Portland, engaged in a sexual relationship with a young man named Beau Breedlove, who was all of 17. What a headline to wake up...
View ArticleThis is why we cannot give up on the South
Yesterday, there were some pretty awful polling results showing that many of the birthers happen to be both Republican and Southerners. Some people on the blog expressed anger and disgust; they were...
View ArticleCome On, People. He said "If you work with me..."
So I was supposed to diary about Whole Foods and a boycott thereof, but Johnnygunn had a superior diary about the lack of healthy food choices in many of our rural communities. Instead, I want to...
View ArticleOn Healthcare: It's personal
We as a country need healthcare reform. For me, it's personal. I pay out of pocket for my insurance premiums, and many of my neighbors here in Beaverton do the same through COBRA. Here are some of my...
View ArticleYou can't lose what you don't have
There is a diary stating that Obama is losing support amongst progressives. It sites several polls and Paul Krugman, who wrote a column about Obama's 'lack of support and lack of leadership'. Yeah, I...
View ArticleMy Letter to Senator Jeff Merkley
First, Ted Kennedy. He had issues, serious ones, that kept him from being President. He had scandals. And yet, somehow, he rose to be a lion of the Senate. In America there is such a thing as a second...
View ArticleThey are afraid because you won't remember
Can you remember not having electricity in the West? Can you remember how much better life was without Social Security? How finer life was without the FDA controlling the purity of food? Do you...
View ArticleThis is the Republican Line in the Sand
Many fine diaries centered on Health Care Reform talk about a line in the sand, final, no holds barred Maginot line that health care reform, with appropriate reform, a strong public option and...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan: The Pattern is Now Clear
Andrew Sullivan is a conservative (small c) writer and blogger with The Atlantic. He had an interesting post: No Republicans for Health Care Reform. In his own succinct way, Drew (I call him that in my...
View ArticleI am a fool, or a filmmaker!
Hello! So, after working on the Obama campaign as a volunteer, going to France, seeing the election go well, I felt very optimistic, so much so in a very long time. See, five years ago I was a happily...
View ArticleDemocrats Need to Take Responsibility
I was doing some pre-production research when I got yet another email from DCCC, promising that if I made a contribution, I would get to sit at dinner with President Obama. As much as I love President...
View ArticleEating Happiness: Diet of Empire
While I was compiling some recipes at my local library I came upon a magazine trumpeting locally produced food and drink, and the rational reasons as to why to cook food at home. One magazine had a...
View ArticleCancer Survival Rates=Red Herring
Hey All- So this diary started as a comment on Watch Al Franken slice and dice the nice wingnut lady but it got really long, so I decided to expand upon it here. The one thing you can count on when...
View ArticleBeing played like a fiddle- The Opt Out is non-optional
Hey guys- This was going to be a post about my fall plum pie recipe, and imma gonna let you have that, but first I have to share what a reader ofSully's (Andrew Sullivan on The Atlantic portal) has to...
View Article
