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To Boldly Go Where No Tea Party Has Gone Before My first encounter with the US Constituion is so clear, I can still taste the fizzies and shake-a-pudding I was scarfing. There I was breathing in the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Nikki: RedState Hoisted By Its Misogynistic Petard
Is it conceivable that South Carolina gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley had an affair with blogger Will Folks? Erick Erickson of RedState.com has your answer backed by this irrefutable proof: It’s a...
View ArticleNuking Native Americans : Environmental Racism in Utah
What do you do if you happen to be a nuclear power utility and all those pesky corroding barrels of high-level radioactive waste begin to exceed your reactor site storage capacity? Well, if the...
View ArticleChrysler Jumps the FoxNews/TeaBag Shark
As Halloween approaches, I think of how candy should always be sold in less diabetic bite sizes. I also consider the passels of Pea Tarders attired as Thomas Paine and Betsy Ross. What do they want...
View ArticleTea Party is a Red State Herring: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
For many of us, the Tea Party is just an endless source of hilarity. Paul, Angle, Miller, O’Donnell, c’mon stop it we’re pissing ourselves. How can any rational person comprehend this nutty parallel...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong with US? Religion in America POLL
A company shows up to someone’s house in Pennsylvania. For a few hundred bucks a month, a family leases its acreage to a fracking well operation, all in the interest of providing cheaper natural gas...
View ArticleJared Loughner used his gun
By the end of Wednesday there was a USA Today/Gallup poll revealing that only 35 percent of Americans thought it was legitimate to blame conservatives for the tragedy, but only around 20 percent wanted...
View ArticleA Modest Gun Control Proposal
Let me start by admitting some things. As a kid, growing up on a farm, I had a gun. It was a Winchester .218 Bee and to this day I regret the marmot and rabbit lives I took for sport with it( but...
View ArticleMark Bittman is the new Frank Rich
On Monday beach babe in fl wrote a diary http://www.dailykos.com/... which pretty much summed up our collective sorrow concerning the end of the 13 year run of Mark Bittman's wonderful food column "The...
View ArticleWalmart's Voter Meal Plan
Now that Mayor Bloomberg has bestowed his approval for Walmart to open an outlet in the Big Apple, it won’t be long before New Yorkers get a taste of the ‘high cost of Walmart’s low prices’. But...
View ArticleDoes Commodity Speculation Create Starvation?
You’re in a grocery store and that loaf of bread in your hand is now a buck fifty when you could swear it was a dollar a few months ago. It’s certainly more than last year. But if you think it’s...
View ArticleDinner for four for less than eight
Are you trying to stretch your food dollar yet finding yourself forking over six bucks for a meal in fast food joints? Do you walk into a supermarket and pass up the fresh produce and meat in favor...
View ArticleWhy are we spending more on 'defense'?
Hard times indeed. Republicans tell us that we must face up to the coming realities of austerity and shared sacrifice. Every social service, every government program from financial and environmental...
View ArticleSee you next week
This is not the sort of diary I am comfortable writing. I'd much rather discuss food and world hunger, the sort of thing nobody will disagree with or judge me about. I am by nature a...
View ArticleDefense Spending and Our Impending Spiritual Death
Like a broken record, it grates worse each time it repeats. Once again, in tonight's candidates' debate, Mitt Romney trumpeted for increased defense spending. Medicare, social security, education,...
View ArticleIs the "Stand Your Ground Law" a license to kill?
It is a case that recalls the grotesque injustice of Emmett Till's. I'm referring to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and if you're not familiar with this terrible and senseless tragedy, the grim...
View ArticleThe little green organism that might save the world
I'd never heard of Euglena until I came across this item on motherboard. The article explains how a Japanese company is tranforming this organism from a trendy (in Japan at least) nutritional...
View ArticleA Very Walmart Christmas (w/lyrics&poll)
On Reddit comes this Onioncheck: a mother posts the lyrics for a school chorus edition....So my son wanted to be in the xmas chorus. The lyrics of the first song are so WTF... move over Santa. Walmart...
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