Blogging from Asheville
Just a quick check in from Asheville, North Carolina where I'm hanging with kossacks. We heard the Reverend William Barber speak earlier at the St.James AME church and it was awesome. The man is a...
View ArticleHillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders in a nutshell
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View ArticleThe Asheville Awakening
This diary is not coming as quickly as they usually do. I think it's because I'm still processing the event, and I don't want to get this wrong. My experience at the Daily Kos Connects gathering in...
View ArticleA moment of truth for Democrats
Some people say that they cannot support Bernie because he's not a Democrat. But I would argue that he's more of a democrat by nature, more in tune with what democrats are supposed to be about, than...
View ArticleYo, Daily Kos! Can we get Bernie on the rec list?
I hope you'll agree that's where he belongs.Thanks for pitching in.http://www.dailykos.com/...
View ArticlePerformance and polish vs policy and truth
I thought Hillary did well last night, as well as she and her supporters could have hoped. She's a class act. My problem is that it's an act. We have put way too much importance on presidents looking...
View ArticleBernie sees the real threat: Climate Change
In service to their masters in the 1%, American politicians have long played the game of punching us in our lizard brains with the enormous and terrifying threats that lurk in every shadow. Commies!...
View ArticleWhere my Portland peeps?
UPDATE: Please don't rec. This doesn't need to take up space on the rec list. Feel free to share it with any Portlanders you may know, though. My 25-year-old son is moving to Portland, O on Nov. 1st....
View ArticleThe unreality of America and the importance of facing facts
Facing facts is not something we're very good at in America. In fact our entire society is based on the opposite principle, avoiding the truth in favor of an appealing fortress of contrived fantasy:...
View ArticleHow dumb are we and how great is our need for change?
* This is a pro-Bernie diary. I believe that our need for change has become quite desperate, existentially so, truly a matter of life and death. Very few of us seem to understand that in the way it...
View ArticleThe time has come for us to stand up and change the world
It's been a long time coming. Many people have died to bring us here. A day of reckoning approaches. It's a time to face facts, to look critically into the mirror and admit the many ways in which we...
View ArticleBernie Sanders is the Best Candidate on Climate Change
And climate change is the biggest problem there is. There are many other important problems to be sure, but this is the one that could kill us all. And while Exxon/Mobil and the right wing...
View ArticleBernie shows real leadership on the Death Penalty
It's easy to say all the popular things. Some politicians go to great lengths to make sure they are doing exactly that at any given point in time. They hire pollsters and people to run focus groups to...
View ArticleCry me a river
Note: An earlier version of this diary was posted a couple of years back in support of Kos Katalogue. I've since reworked it and fine-tuned it a bit just because I liked it. It attacks no one,...
View ArticleLord, spare us from these 'Christians'
I've known many Christians who were inspiring in their compassion and human decency, and many more who were anything but. I find it regrettable that there are so many fundamentalist Christians...
View ArticleToward a more hopeful and peaceful future for all
“Nothing is more barbarous than war. Nothing is more cruel. And yet, the war dragged on. Nothing is more pitiful than a nation being swept along by fools.” Daisaku Ikeda, The Human Revolution
View ArticleCan we all pitch in and help Vetwife and her family?
Amanda (Vetwife) tells the tragic story here:Nothing but TearsLosing a child is horrible... Losing a grandchild is horrible as well...and when it is the first grandchild, it really tears your heart....
View ArticleWe'd have to be fools not to seize this opportunity for real change
Do we want change or not?Do we want another imperial president or something more down to earth? A multi-millionaire one-percenter or someone more like us? Bernie Sanders walks to work
View ArticleLee Camp: “It's about time people gave a damn.”
This goes back to the propaganda storm that followed the first Democratic primary debate. We're being shamelessly lied to by the corporate media. They've got half the world believing that Hillary's...
View ArticleWhen the sky falls softly
When the sky falls softlyAnd the heavens roarDon't forget to say goodbyeAs you wander the earthWearing only your soulI'll hold you in the lightRemember your templeHas no stonesAnd your destiny is the...
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