Behind MOAB: Who Owns My House?
So this fiscal abyss we're staring into stems from bad sub-prime mortgages, aided and abetted by mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps. I'm no billmon or Devilstower, but ok, I think I...
View ArticleHelp needed: is Reichert (WA-08) breaking the law?
Matt Stoller over at open left posted a story on Monday where he looks into Rep Dave Reichert's fundraising numbers versus his TV ad buys. The long and short of it is that it appears Reichert has...
View ArticleWA-08: Darcy Burner, a Vote for Leadership
[Updated: diary title changed to comply with election race diary standard][crossposted from the Northwest Progressive Institute Advocate]Election day is nigh upon us. This will be my final post on...
View ArticleNo DNC 50 State Strategy? Make Lemonade.
So the DNC wants to walk away from the strategy that saved, well, everything. Saved the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the governorships of dozens of states. Saved the bleedin' country, and in...
View ArticleAnother Side to the Pot Debate
Today we find Droogie and The Field on the Rec list with diaries about marijuana. Not needing to read very far between the lines, Droogie comes out in favor of outright legalization. The Field...
View ArticleMath and Art in Education
Crossposted from the NPI AdvocateI cannot remember a time when people were not decrying the state of mathematics education in America. A time when there weren't occasional stories in the newspaper or...
View ArticleA bitter economic pill
[crossposted from the Northwest Progressive Institute]So this is what it feels like to be "collateral damage."My story is surely nothing short of commonplace these days. In October my company laid off...
View ArticleProfit-driven health insurance is immoral.
Having served up a heaping helping of economic stimulus, we're now told that next up on the Obama administration's agenda is health care. Or at least, the start of a health care reform...
View ArticleAn Alternate Solution to the Credit Crisis.
As thereisnospoon explained for us on Monday, the credit crisis is poised to seriously bite the economy in the ass if something isn't done soon. It was a great diary, and I won't re-hash here the...
View ArticleBread and Circuses
I get it. We're all infuriated about the AIG bonuses. Our moral indignation has never been higher. But here's a memo for everyone, left, right, and center: you're getting played.Back in the Roman...
View ArticleStopping Monsanto for good
Tuesday, NPR's Marketplace program reported that Germany has moved to ban Monsanto's "MON-810" strain of genetically modified corn.This--if it holds up--is a significant win for the sustainable...
View ArticleMojo Friday -- West Coast Edition
Tired of logging on first thing Friday morning only to see that the Mojo Friday diary already has 1000+ comments?Tired of people in more easterly time-zones having all the fun, and hogging all the...
View ArticleWidowed from our Food Chain
Swine Flu. Smithfield Farms. CAFOs. H1N1. Senator Collins.This is the vocabulary of this week's latest international calamity, which you can hardly have escaped hearing about if you've been awake...
View ArticleMojo Friday -- West Coast Orthographic Oddities Edition
Tired of logging on first thing Friday morning only to see that the Mojo Friday diary already has 1000+ comments?Tired of people in more easterly time-zones having all the fun, and hogging all the...
View ArticleMojo Friday -- Time Shifters (Formerly: West Coast) Edition
By now, I think you're all getting the hang of why we have a second Mojo Friday diary. For those who haven't been around the past couple of Fridays, the idea is this:Tired of the Mojo Friday page being...
View ArticleMojo Friday -- Time Shifters Lame Duck/Joke Edition
For whatever reason, we can't all get up early enough in the morning to get in on TexDem's Mojo Friday diaries. By the time we show up, there's a thousand comments and our browsers go into apoplectic...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the Tocquedeville Hornets' Nest
This diary is here because, mostly, the comment thread on the petition diary to unban Tocquedeville is now insanely long.I do not believe I have ever seen a diary with 2300+ comments on it before, as...
View ArticleMr. President, please, just call it "torture"
I read with great interest the transcript of Obama's national security speech. And for pretty much all of it, I agree with him. But one particular bit kind of set me off. It's a quote that diarist...
View ArticleTwenty Years from Tiananmen
Not too long ago, I met this woman named Yuki. She came to a meeting of my Toastmasters club, to work on her public speaking skills. She's Chinese, and struggles with the weirdness of the English...
View ArticleHow many lives is your Senator worth?
Hope is a wonderful thing. It can keep us going when times seem bleak. Hope got us a new president who promised us health care reform. It's a good thing for hope, because right now hope is about all...
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