humid
Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 02:22:06 AM PDT
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Nola Artists Fund
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Last night, I have learned something about y'all that I find disturbing:
there are comfort whores among us.
I mean no disrespect. I sit in air conditioned comfort sipping a luxurious iced beverage whenever possible. Yet beauty often involves pain, truth is more expensive than truthiness, and, regardless of humidity, Yearly Kos 2007 must be held in New Orleans.
Lou Dobbs on the wrong kind of Wedge
Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 06:28:51 PM PDT
Perhaps best known around dKos for his strong stance on illegal immigration, which many Kosmopolites consider to be a right-wing wedge issue, Lou Dobbs called out a wedge of his own on his CNN program tonight: the latest attempts by Republicans to capitalize on attempts to ban gay marriage.
Lou:
"What in the world is the threat to heterosexual marriage posed, Michael Goodwin, by a gay union?"
Goodwin, from the NY Daily News, starts parsing...
Lou, semi-playing, interrupts him:
"Thank you 'senator,' but I'm just curious, what is the threat? Empirically, independently, what is the reality?"
The 777 Comments of Bartholomew Cubbins
Thu May 18, 2006 at 01:05:40 PM PDT
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Lou Dobbs laments Skeletor's metaphor. (with poll)
Tue May 16, 2006 at 03:53:03 PM PDT
Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, aka Brownie's Boss, but best known as Skeletor, was just bitch-slapped over an incredibly poor choice of metaphor by Lou Dobbs on CNN.
according to Lou,
"Chertoff has found a new and unusual way to describe the President's guest worker proposals:"
Stuck in my Craw(ford) - Kosmopolites & Illegal Immigration (with poll)
Mon May 15, 2006 at 10:55:40 AM PDT
How much do you think your current socioeconomic and geographic situation has to do with your stance on illegal immigration? How much is pure theory, how much based on personal experience, what happens when those two conflict? I am extremely curious to know, and hope to post some polls which might take sample "slices" from within the Kos. i know that my questions will probably be somewhat flawed, and welcome any suggestions on how to improve them / better questions to ask. I also welcome interpretations of the results.
But first, I want to report on my trip to Crawford TX, where I attended the "Reckoning / Rumble at the Ranch" rally on the Minuteman Project Caravan, which concluded in D.C. on friday.
i think i'm going to Crawford tomorrow.
Fri May 05, 2006 at 02:05:22 PM PDT
I realize that I am probably offering myself as a human pinata by stating this here, on the Kos, in my first diary ever. And on Cinco de Mayo - ai, dios mio. Nonetheless, if I'm going to do this, I want to be as open and as public as possible about it. Tomorrow I am driving down to Crawford Texas to join the Minutemen's Caravan to protest illegal immigration.
My credentials include years (pretty much my entire adult life) spent living in inner city neighborhoods in major American cities, most recently San Diego- not the posh gentrified sections of the cities, but in the parts i could afford. The neighborhoods included a pastiche of inhabitants: some white people, mostly not, and none wealthy. The areas were commonly accepted as being pretty "ghetto." Or must I now say "barrio?"
