The USA's Dirty Little Secret
In this age of Political Correctness only a very few people would ever say right out loud they wouldn't vote for Barack Obama just because he is African-American. They wouldn't say it, but they do it....
View ArticleCalling all candidates: Get off the religious bus
Dear Presidential Candidates, Get off the religious bus before it careens over the cliff taking all of us with it and crashes.Okay, folks. Warning. This is going to be a long rant on a subject that I...
View ArticleMs. Bubba rides again
This is like a short explosion compared to some of my more rambling rants. But I just can't hold it in any longer or I may choke on my own puke. This whole campaign is beginning to make me exceedingly...
View ArticleThe road gets rougher
The road gets rougher, It's lonelier and tougher. With hope you burn up, Tomorrow he may turn up. There's just no letup The livelong night and day.Looking for the man that got away . . . Well, let’s...
View ArticlePlease Don't Pass the Plate: An open letter to Barack Obama on religion
Dear Barack,Today I received two emails from you soliciting a donation for your campaign. I probably would have donated some money as I have four times in the past, but I’m a little strapped right now....
View ArticleReligion, law and same sex marriage
Below is a comment I posted to an open thread Diary on 6 May 2008. It is in response to a post about the interracial marriage of Mildred and Richard Loving in the l950's and the legal fights they had...
View ArticleA Bit of Fun
I am exhausted by the invective and sliminess of the Democratic primary campaigns. Now it seems Hillary intends to continue and throw more slop into the pig pen. I need a break, I need some fun. Care...
View ArticleFarewell, Hillary. I thought I knew you well.
The Hillary Rodham Clinton I thought I knew no longer exists. How did she disappear? Was she really only an illusion to begin with? Or was I a victim of my own wish for a strong, intelligent, caring...
View ArticleRacism, Religion and the Media
Today I received an email from the group Brave New Films that makes liberal political videos for the web. This email was about one that they teamed with Mother Jones to produce regarding McCain's...
View ArticleThe Fall of Queen Hillary: A Fairytale
Why does Hillary go on? That seems to be the latest question that we elitists banter about at our cocktail hour soirées. Over our Mojitos and Chocolate Martinis the effete conversation of our...
View ArticleMcCain's Judgment? Goodbye Hagee, Hello Parsley
So McCain has disposed of Hagee's endorsement...and along with it the "great Catholic whore,""Hitler, God's deliverer of the Jew's to Israel," and "Katrina's revenge on New Orleans because of...
View ArticleStop Hillary now! No VP spot to appease her.
Hillary Clinton's personal ambition is proving to be insatiable. She has shown by the way she is running her campaign that she is unfit to hold the Presidency of the US.Now she wants to be VP? What do...
View ArticleGWB gets away with crimes against humanity while the primary drones on
George W. Bush gets away with crimes against humanity. While he continues to strut about acting as if he is the absolute ruler, we let him get away without any checks on him. We allow him to be immune...
View ArticleHelping to Save America from the Heathens
Today, America's largest evangelical denomination, the Southern Baptists, once again signaled its intent to turn the USA into a Christian nation and save it from the current heathen (re: liberal)...
View ArticleAmericas third Party holds a lot of power
We keep thinking that we have a two party system: Democrats and Republicans. But take a closer look. There are actually three prominent parties: Democrats, Republicans, and Blue Dogs. Now I know most...
View ArticleLament of a betrayed lover
Why am I such an incurable romantic? Why, oh why, did I give my heart so easily? I should have known. It's happened to me before. I never learn.My choices are always bad. Liberal politicians. They make...
View ArticleConservatives: Unite to Save America
I've always been a liberal; even a rather radical liberal in my youth. But now I have to rethink all of that. I think I am becoming...it's hard to say it out loud...a conservative. It's been a...
View ArticleIs Obama winning battles only to lose the war
Let me be clear at the outset...I will be voting for Barack Obama in November. It may not be with the same enthusiasm I had earlier in his campaign, but I will vote for him. Even if by the time...
View ArticleWhat's the problem with Congress
This is less a diary and more an attempt to start a "hopefully"reasonable discussion. I've tried this here a couple of times before with rather poor results. But I am an old college professor (so I...
View ArticleA satire of a satire of a satire...
The Nation magazine will be publishing a cartoon that satirizes the the New Yorker cartoon that created the latest Obama brouhaha. You'll find it below the fold. But what is all this uproar about...
View ArticleIs Obama too Presidential
Since the start of his Presidential campaign Barack Obama has been having a problem with being "centrist" enough. The media, new and old, blogosphere and MSM, has a hard time tethering him to any one...
View ArticleWe all need 7 houses (maybe eight)
Kos's pin that he is wearing at the DNC, "Ask me how many houses I own," got my mind wandering off track...as usual. How many houses do you own? Do you own seven, eight? You say you don't need seven or...
View ArticleVetting McCain
This diary is not about Sarah Palin (well not exactly anyway). This diary is about vetting John McCain--or scrutinizing the activities of John McCain regarding his vetting of Sarah Palin. In other...
View ArticleI can't believe I agree with Bush about Ike
I don't know how it ever happened but I find myself agreeing with GW Bush. It feels rather slimy...but I can't deny it. Bush, Chertoff and Paulison are miffed that people who were in Ike's course and...
View ArticleRove perfects lying techniques with McCain campaign
There would seem to be only a few degrees of separation between Karl Rove's philosophical muse Leo Strauss and McCain---Strauss to Rove to Bush to McCain. The late Leo Strauss is the philosophical...
View ArticleGive McMoose the gift of Planned Parenthood
My son just sent me an idea that I have to pass on. This isn't much of a diary but I think it is a good fun idea...especially if we alert the Media! My first alert goes out to Rachel Maddow. Feel...
View ArticleTrickle Up Economics: An answer to McCain's know-nothing-economics
If McCain can say he doesn't know anything about the economy and still he is running for President at a time when we are in grave economic peril, then I, who also know nothing about the economy...save...
View ArticleThe Bush junta strikes again
This is the shortest diary I have ever written...so it probably cannot really be considered a diary at all. But I am pissed off and want to vent! So there!I am overwhelmed with what the Bush junta has...
View ArticleJohn McCain: President "Chicken S**t"
I find myself reduced to my Jr. Hi vocabulary in my reactions to McCain's latest lying, disingenuous, "you people out there are sooooo stupid" maneuver. McCain is a chicken shit! McCain positions...
View ArticleThe Bush Legacy: The Audacity of Arrogance
The election is over and we have won. But just what have we won? This world now is so different than the world we lived in when George W. Bush first took office. Obama must take over a nation whose...
View ArticleBan Marriage
There seems to be just one way to resolve the problem of just "who" can marry "who." End all marriage. Marriage, as it legally defined today, is a discriminatory practice that affords a specific class...
View ArticleObama, Gay Marriage and Civil Rights
I know that Pres Elect Obama has said he is not in favor of gay "marriage," but he has said little or nothing about revoking a citizen's civil rights...which is the case if Prop8 stands in California....
View ArticleMedicare: A Sedative for Wingnuts
Don't scare the wingnuts. They're scared enough as it is and when they get scared they panic. And when they panic they act in unpredictable and dangerous ways. And they have guns.Don't scare the...
View ArticleThe Problem: Too few political parties
What to do about a do-nothing congress focused on its own political pissing contest while the nation deteriorates into a disfunctional impoverished third world country with no middle class?...Give a...
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