Thinking before we MoveOn
I, like many progressives looking for a mechanism for activism, recently joined MoveOn.org. I enjoy getting emails offering me things like Bush/McCain bumper stickers and heads-ups to contact my...
View ArticleTransitions: Not just for lenses anymore
Transitions are hard. This is true whether we're talking about musical composition, novel writing, or human interaction. We tend to be much better at being in one stage or another than we are at the...
View ArticleThere's an ice pick in my head!
Early this afternoon, while I was at work, I experienced a sharp, sudden pain in a very specific place on my head. I've had these before, once in a great while, and while it's briefly terrifying -...
View ArticleObama
Dear Senator Obama,I need you to be president. I want my son to grow up in a better America. He wants to become a physicist. He doesn't want to be in the military. I need to know that he will have...
View ArticleIMPORTANT: Need credit card help? Read this diary!
Okay, there's not any actual credit card help in this diary. I'm simply a traffic cop here to help you locate the diary that has the great advice.
View ArticleMy mom: daring to hope!
For as long as I can remember, my mother dismissed politics as something beyond her. She regarded it as a game she didn't really understand played by people who weren't "real" and who didn't live in...
View ArticleWe Need a Grassroots Attack on the Media Problem
I almost never write diaries, mostly because my life is emotionally very complicated and I find it immensely difficult to focus my thoughts to the necessary degree to adequately research, analyze, and...
View ArticleGrassroots Media Attack: Next Discussion
Last week, I posted a diary on the topic of the threat posed to society by the corporate-owned media and what might be done about it at a pure grassroots level. While it didn’t generate a landslide of...
View ArticleThe media is daring us to act
I’ve posted a couple of diaries recently on the topic of the media, but I – like most of us – had my attention largely consumed with other current events this week. Today, however, I’m filled with a...
View ArticleRoe v. Wade IS the compromise
I've come to realize that there's a fundamental point of misunderstanding between proponents of reproductive freedom and those who find themselves arguing on the other side. I keep running into it in...
View ArticleYou always have a choice
It's really easy to get caught up in the heat of the moment and take a path that leads somewhere you would never intentionally go, and it's especially easy when that heated moment is occurring online....
View ArticleI'm living with joy in my heart
I don't know exactly what may have gone on in certain diaries yesterday or today that resulted in lost of nasty things being said and some users being suspended or banned or taking voluntary timeouts...
View ArticleI'm living with joy in my heart (repost)
I posted this last night, on a whim, because I was struck by how good I am feeling and how much that contrasted with the general mood I've been seeing in many diaries lately. It was a diary...
View ArticleCan we still be friends... or relatives?
For years... okay, for most of my life... I've dealt with being completely out of synch with my family when it comes to social justice and/or politics. I grew up during the sixties and seventies in a...
View ArticleEPIC WIN is for ALL Americans - Updated
UPDATE: I just read mcjoan's front page storyand was immensely interested in this paragraph she wrote: That said, leaving any people out of the system should be of vital concern to lawmakers. There's a...
View ArticleUPDATE 3x: Mass shooting at drug testing center, Tualatin OR
This is only a few blocks from where I'm working.Officers were called to the intersection of Southwest Martinazzi Avenue and Warm Springs Street at 11:48 a.m.Police said an armed person fired shots at...
View ArticleHere we go again
We've all seen this. Heck, we've all done it.Somebody starts to complain about something, something they've complained about before - perhaps often - and we feel impatience rising up inside us. Not...
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SheKos: Death by intimate partner (2nd Update)
UPDATE: Hattip to ontheleftcoast for suggesting I include a contact number for those who are living in fear of abuse:1.800.799.SAFE (7233) 1.800.787.3224 (TTY) Anonymous & Confidential Help 24/7The...
View ArticleSheKos: When Rob Shot Teresa - a Love Tragedy
Welcome to SheKos! SheKos is a diary series for all Kossacks to explore issues related to feminism, women's history, and equality. We seek to find solutions within and beyond the Democratic Party to...
View ArticleSheKos: Wake Up and Taste the Twinkies
Welcome to SheKos! SheKos is a diary series for all Kossacks to explore issues related to feminism, women's history, and equality. We seek to find solutions within and beyond the Democratic Party to...
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