Why is a non-Dem sitting in a Dem's place on Senate Committees?
Update: There is an earlier and more comprehensive diary here. Here is a list of Lieberman's Senate Commmitte memberships. Please contact your local friendly neighborhood Democratic Senator and...
View ArticleStephanie Studebaker
Stephanie Studebaker For CongressStephanie Studebaker arrested for domestic violence Hoo boy. Be prepared for a wave of projection... Edit: Dayton Daily News story, from Ord Avg Guy in comments.and...
View ArticleAnti-Bush rally today
A co-worker and I went to an anti-Bush rally in Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco today ("The World Can't Wait", http://www.worldcantwait.org/ ... In my day, protests didn't have names or web sites....
View Article92% Incumbent Re-election is Revolutionary?
With everyone giddy about 30, probably 40 or (gasp) 50 House seats changing hands, and up to 6 Senate seats, that still represents a 94-90% incumbent re-election rate. That's the cause for this...
View ArticleA Rotating Primary Schedule?
My wife had a suggestion for solving which state gets the early primary, without ending up with all states trying to have their primary first.Similarly weighted states (electorally) but diverse...
View ArticlePresident Bush Addresses the Nation
President Bush Addresses the Nation The Oval Office10:16 P.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm...
View ArticleHow many pregnancies are terminated for medical reasons?
In the early days after my loss, I joined an online support group for women who have ended a pregnancy for medical reasons. When I joined it the site was a little over a year old, and had perhaps a...
View ArticleFlip That House!
My wife and I are flipping a house. We thought this was just the right time. We came into a no-money-down fixer-upper, a 1500" colonial with nice lines, about 30 years old.We cashed out 100% of our...
View ArticleHistory doesn't repeat (but it does rhyme)
The Year of the Woman! The Democrats were going to nominate women to the US Senate from the two biggest states of the Union - Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein in California and Geraldine Ferraro in...
View Articlecarbon offsets and energy audits
For the last year we've been doing what we can to reduce the energy we use. We replaced all our windows and doors with double-glazed, high-efficiency versions. I also replaced all our lightbulbs with...
View ArticleMore Earth Week: Reducing Water Use?
(Speculation on Pennsyvania primary results, chest-beating about CNN's coverage, and other topical issues don't appear in this diary. Consider it a waste of valuable diary space -- apologies! Or a...
View ArticleSend Doughnuts
We have a crisis. It's not housing. Or healthcare. No, it's not the price of gas. Or ethanol crowding out the occasional use of corn for food. Or the rationing of rice. Or the fact that many parts of...
View ArticleForcing us to grovel - over and over again
"I feel like I've got a gun to my head telling me that I am forced by law to pay some CEOs obscene salary with no guarantee that I'm not going to get the shaft if I get sick.""Playing with Fire" -- Digby
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