The Future of Kossacks
This online community has, to date, performed the following functions: encouragement and community to its members a clearinghouse for ideas and news stories that we believe need further...
View ArticleNominate Your Words for Core Democratic Principles
Okay, so if Lakoff says we need to articulate who we are, and what we believe in, before we start framing issues and promoting a positive agenda, then let's start nominating some words. Here are my...
View ArticleEffete, Godless, Worthless, Lying Latte Libruls. . . On the Couch!
In a comment today, I applied some thoughts based on my training as a psychologist to examine the stereotypical fundamentalist mindset, as expressed in a rich narrative from another diary. You can...
View ArticleLet's Rename the Evangelicals
This article in Monday's Wasington Post has the religious right essentially taking credit for Bush's election, and has them bragging that they started the antigay ballot initiatives, without Rove's...
View ArticleHow Should We Crush James Dobson?
I've argued in this diary that the Radical Right Wing Fundamentalist Control Freaks (RRWFCF's!) are overreaching, and that gives us a tremendous opportunity to ruan against them the way we used to run...
View ArticleThe Conscience of a Liberal
The recent diary about Brad Carson's TNR piece prompted me quickly to pen the following. It respresents a statement of values for liberals in the modern world, a kind of civil "credo." It does not...
View ArticleThe Joy of Killing
Here's something combat soldiers know but seldom talk about: kicking ass and killing enemies can be a lot of fun. They play their favorite kickass jams when they're in tanks and Bradley fighting...
View ArticleUPDATED Action Alert: Call Your (R) Congressman (Josh Marshall's idea)
Josh Marshall has a terrific idea: out your Republiucan Congressman on his or her vote in conference to change or not change the rule banning conference leaders from serving in leadership if indicted...
View ArticleUPDATED Action Alert Day 2: Go Get those Pro-DeLay Congressmen!
Okay, sports fans, you all did a great job with the diary on the DeLay rule and the House R's yesterday.But there are many, many more representatives to call (and it's so much fun!). Here's a compiled...
View ArticleIf We Didn't Have Fags, We'd Have To Invent Them (Fascism Revisited)
This diary begins with a simple question: what political function do gay and lesbian people serve in this country? It seems pretty clear to any of us who are gay or who have gay friends that the...
View ArticlePick Your Enemy: Bush, Osama. . . Michael Moore?
Peter Bienert at The New Republic (subscription required) makes a compelling and well-written argument that the left is significantly inhibited by its inability to articulate, at the grass roots level,...
View ArticleDean's Evolution on Gay Rights. . . And Yours? Tell Your Story
In a recent comment in another diary, I noted how helpful it would be if straight people who have come to support gay equality, including gay marriage, would be more public in telling other straight...
View ArticleWhat Could Rummy Do to Get Fired?
I'm serious. Let's brainstorm: Would he have to be caught on videotape in a sexually compromised position with the Bush twins? Would he have to moon a reporter at a press conference? Would he have...
View ArticleThe Hits Just Keep Comin' (More Corruption)
Ok, Reform Democrats, put your Elliot Spitzer hat on and check out this little nugget from the Department of Homeland Security. Seems an old Bush buddy from Houston has been canned from his job as...
View ArticlePlame Who? Admin to Investigate Satellite Leak
Today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a story about the Administration's ire over last week's dislcosures of its new Pentagon favored toy: a spy satellite system that only works well...
View ArticleReframing the "Moral Elite"
This is important, and worthy of discussion, so please pay attention! Editor's Note: I took out a reference to "Frameshop" as a way of making a hat tip to Jeff who does the Frameshop diaries, but took...
View ArticleToday's "Journalists" = Drag Artists (with Poll)
Drag is a performance art. It involves the impersonation of a thing by the opposite of that thing, for the purposes of playing with symbols and images for entertainment. Drag is a send up, and at...
View ArticleGuckert/Gannon Scrambles: Reframing "Repentance"
Okay, this is not so much an exposition diary as it is a discussion diary. I'm watching Guckert run the well worn and predictable media playbook about finding Jesus, having made "mistakes," having...
View ArticleThe Importance of Coming Out as a Kossack
Have you ever noticed that the most vocal person about politics in the office or at the family reunion is most likely to be a right wingnut? That's because thyey have no shame, and the have no manners,...
View ArticleTime to Buy CNN
Okay, we all see it: they're all stenographers and pimps for the man with the power - as long as the man is Republican. This is the result of thirty years of a premeditated campaign by the fascist...
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