Where's Frodo Baggins?
The DailyKos is a great place to learn a thing or two. What a treasure of perspectives to explore! With the heated arguing and debating occurring in this election season, I thought I'd pay you all a...
View ArticleUpdated: Not buying it, baby - the real issue isn't Cenk
Making Cenk's remarks and even Cenk personally the villain is a diversion, a clever distraction, a red herring. The implied message of some of the diarists and other critics of the left is that the...
View ArticleKeith Olbermann - Updated With More Videos
Olbermann has announced via his twitter account that he will host a special edition of CountDown tonight. He has confirmed he will make a special comment about today's eventsIn light of today's events,...
View ArticleKeith's cryptic tweet: Craig Ferguson tonight?
Keith Olbermann, who was painfully missing from NBCWKO network tonight, has broken silence, as it were, with an enigmatic tweet. The former MSNBC host of Countdown is widely rumored to have signed a...
View ArticleWas it worth the price?
Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies!-A line from...
View ArticleDaily Kos Community Roll Call #OWS (and a personal story)
The #OWS (Occupy Wall Street) movement has erupted rather suddenly like the miracle of a single flower or blade of grass that springs up overnight from a tiny crack in the sea of urban concrete. Many...
View Article“We’ve got to get him out of here!” said the Peacekeeper, clearly...
[Made a few changes. I've republished with a better edited version]Something happened to me at my local OccupyPortland a few weeks ago. And although this diary about the incident was in draft form, set...
View ArticleMoore to Portland: "this is by far the largest occupation I have seen"
Is Portland now the largest OWS camp? Michael Moore seems to think so.While New York City, the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement, has the enormous credit of being the genesis of OWS, and will...
View ArticleBig day in Portland Saturday. Forced #OP Eviction. Join in solidarity!...
Tonight, at midnight, (Saturday, November 12) the police are expected to evict the occupiers from the parks in Portland, under orders from Democratic Mayor Sam Adams.It isn't known precisely when the...
View ArticleI was shouting like a wild-eyed radical. The man with the green Mohawk...
In this narrative, I'll describe some things I witnessed at an Occupy event that didn't make the news. Yes, there has been violence, police brutality, injustice and intolerance, but there are some...
View ArticleNo pie, no photos, no sensational message, just a call for help. Portland...
I have no photos, no titillating videos, no baiting for pie fights, no sensational stories to share, no posturing for mojo, no arguments to make. I just have a call for help. I hope that is enough.I am...
View ArticleMic Check: Daily Kos will Never Speak for Occupy Wall Street
At the time of this writing, there is a diary up on Daily Kos which purports to use the consensus model to make a statement about what agenda Occupy Wall Street should adopt.In a way, You right now are...
View ArticleWild Ride in Portland: Police Punked By Peaceful Protest
Wild ride in Portland Saturday night (12/4/2011). I went to an Occupy Portland march at 3 PM, which began at Salmon Springs fountain on the Waterfront, and which wound through the town, eventually...
View Article"I Don't Pay!" Cultural jamming spreading across Europe (updated)
The consumer activist group, Adbusters, the people who brought you OWS (well, they sparked it off) has brought this video to their reader's attention about a culture jam which is spreading across...
View ArticleA Short Tribute to One of Our Best Voices, Now Banned
Slinkerwink is banned. She made comment in a pie fight. I won't use this diary to judge the merits of the decision, only to give tribute to her contributions here over the years.There goes one of the...
View ArticleThe bees are losing, while Atlas merely shrugs
First, let me tell you about myself and why I have a particularly strong interest in bees, and why their welfare is personal to me. And then I'll tell a little about one of the worst of the perils that...
View ArticleNews Headline: Romney "thought experiment" Confounds Academia Worldwide
New York (APN)A thought experiment submitted recently at an international philosophy symposium has rippled around the world and caused havoc in the field of philosophy at major universities and...
View ArticlePlease act: Tell the EPA: Bees can't wait 6 more years for rescue. Deadline...
In just a few days, the time allotted for commenting to the FDA to urge it suspend use of a bee-killing pesticide will expire, after which, the EPA will likely stick to its decision to delay review of...
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The Haymarket Affair, Anarchism, and the Origins of Mayday
"The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!" These words were shouted into the crisp, cold Chicago air on November 11, 1887 by an anarchist labor...
View ArticleHey, those war crimes? And the Spying? Get over it. Nothing new.
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”― Leonardo da Vinci Recently, a diary appeared which characterized the emotional responses of critics of the current Obama Administration's policies....
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