Incoming Tide: a sort of ode on torture
I'm one of those people who likes to visit the site regularly and read the postings, only rarely commenting. As a 64 year old white male, a problematic demographic I know, suffering in Maryland's 1st...
View ArticleMorons, a proposal
I can't be alone in being flooded with right wing, wacko email. For a long time I simply deleted them. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that they aren't like some junk mail, they are answerable. I now...
View ArticleOn bitching about Obama vs the issues
After seeing minions try, and evidently fail, I've come to the point of: "That's all I can stands 'cause I can't stands any more". My two cents worth below.
View ArticleOut of my shame comes an epiphany…
… or not. I recently wrote a Diary, more of a frustrated rant, that I expected six people to read and comment on HERE, that being my previous record. To my surprise it received over a thousand comments...
View ArticleHas Kos been punked?
Maybe and maybe not the most accurate use of the word - but close enough. Isn't amazing just how much time and space on Kos goes to those whining about Obama. Not to policy discussion. No posting can...
View ArticleTo my congressman, Andy Harris (MD-1)…
I realize that you are new to the job, and that major bills often go to the big dogs. But this is an opportunity for you.
View ArticleEducation Makes You Stupid
Or - who ultimately decides elections and how does Daily Kos fit in…Sometimes I think my life is a game of Twister, I seem to have feet in a number of different worlds. One of the expressions I have...
View ArticleThe Moon has been Eaten
I find it awkward to abandon politics and post a more personal diary, but here goes. Anyone who cruises here has seen how difficult it it to get a book of any kind published, let alone sold. The title...
View ArticleArtKos: The Moon has been Eaten
OK, I'm just using the title of the book I just launched of images of Easter Island because it seems to catch peoples' eye. This is really to introduce myself to the ArtKos community:
View ArticleI just voted in MD…
OK, not much of a Diary. But it felt good. My wife and I have to be out of the country from next week until December. In 2008 the absentee voting procedure left us receiving our emailed ballots just in...
View Article92 Sticks of Butter later
Today I reached my long-term goal – 165 pounds, my "55" year old weight. Haven't seen that in 12 years (yes, a spry 67). I topped out at 188, a good deal of it paunch – the old pull-the-shirt-tail out...
View ArticleNew JFK quote leaves Romney 0 for 3…
The October issue of Smithsonian magazine features excerpts from a new book "Listening in: The Secret White House Recordings of John F Kennedy" edited by Ted Widmer, the article focusing on a recording...
View ArticleObama leads in LinkedIn followers…
I was updating (and trying to fully understand) my Facebook and LinkedIn pages (I have a book I'm trying to sell) and noticed that both President Obama and Mitt Romney have pages and "followers."...
View ArticleWho's punking who…
Re: Gallop, Rasmusen, Fox, etc. and the Romentum narrative. I'm sure they have an outside hope that their narrative will be self fulfilling. After all, there is a bandwagon effect to appeal to. But...
View ArticleAncestry, DNA and my wife…
While putting together a photo-book of our girls growing up – something for their families for Christmas this year – I want to include something of a family tree, at least a pedigree. I wound up...
View ArticleHillary – we got the cookies covered, you go give 'em hell…
Making cookies for a friends birthday, couldn’t resist showing off my new Hillary shirt. A while back my wife was having trouble with a hand and I pitched in on the cookies – been at it ever since....
View ArticleI'm so damn proud of our town…
Saturday was the first Pride Day event held in Harford County, Maryland. Right here in little Havre de Grace. A real honest to God family celebration of those members who are perhaps a little...
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