Yes – that crazy, liberal, Progressive, left-leaning Keith Olbermann is still at it. He's still doing crazy, liberal, Progressive, left-leaning stuff. Standing up for a minority group in America? Yes that's crazy, liberal, Progressive, and left-leaning. And yes – I still love the guy for it. What's he up to...
I don't bother reading the Times of Israel. As newspapers go, it's rather too right-wing for my taste. It isn't as harshly right-wing as some other Israeli publications, but a champion of the left it is not. For a left-of-center Israeli newspaper, one has to go with Haaretz. Nonetheless, I...
Does any American seriously NOT know that there is a “Cop Culture” in this nation? Do any of us have a genuine understanding of what goes in inside that culture? Unless you've lived inside of it, you really don't. Redditt Hudson works for the NAACP and chairs the board of...
The meeting lasted well into the night, with the campus paper Daily Bruin unable to get a report out until after 11:30 PM Tuesday night. The final vote was 8 For, 2 Against, and 2 Abstentions. Details and links after the Orange Cloud of Celebration.
Fully-automatic weapons and armored vehicles used on unarmed protesters in Ferguson, MO., and the questions which remain about Michael Brown's death are both enormous and numerous. The local PD and hundreds of others across the nation close ranks to protect the cop – not to demand that an independent investigation...
Yes, those lovely people over at the NRA have decided that they've had enough of Shannon Watts, the public face of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Their new strategy to blunt the effects of this gun-control group seems to be attacking the leader on a personal basis....
No, this isn't a War Diary. So you can feel free to read on. If anything, this is a Peace Diary. Because it explains how you can help to be a force for Peace, Human Rights, and Dignity for an oppressed People who have been forced to live as stateless...
Let me begin with this quote: Conditions are increasingly dire in the shelters; there is no water for hygiene, very few showers and latrines are totally inadequate. Disease outbreak is beginning, with skin infections, scabies and others. There are thousands of pregnant women in our schools, deliveries are precarious and...
This has just been reported a few hours ago, no details have been released besides what is in this from a link to the report from Reuters: Five members of a family, including three children, were found shot dead at their southern Maine home on Sunday, with a gun located...
I accept that there will be terrible things happen in any war. Mistakes are made. Some warriors care nothing for the civilians they target. Some commanders flush their ethics in the name of victory. Nations make every attempt to dehumanize the people they are fighting. These are facts, and they...
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu's admirers see him as a man who since the demise of apartheid in South Africa has been active in the...
There have been at least 70 in the last three decades—and most of the killers got their guns legally. That's how MJ opens this piece – with that staggering statistic. Thirty-three of these mass shootings have occurred since 2006. Seven of them took place in 2012, and another five occurred...
This is going to be a short one because I can't say it any better than the man who hosts The Young Turks. He's got a thing going, and you can be a part of it. We can all be a part of it.
And the Republicans can't understand why so many Americans are signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
If you like short diaries because they get the message across without much fuss, here's one for you. In London – central London, not some out-of-the-way little suburb – St James Church near Piccadilly Circus has given a bit of its churchyard for use as the site of an artwork...
Your opinion of what constitutes “Good TV” may differ from mine. In fact, it should. But I don't believe for a second that you good folks here won't consider this presentation to be “Good TV”. In fact, I'm betting that you're going to think that this is something that all...
You remember this guy. He's the “chief” of a one-man police force in the town of Gilberton, PA who made a series of YouTube videos loaded with swearing, lots of gunfire, and liberal use of the term “libtard” – in both the singular and plural varieties. The guy is one...
I needed a break from a home-improvement project and sat on the top step of my front porch in order to take it. I pulled out my cell phone and started scrolling through the names listed there on the off chance that I'd find somebody I hadn't had a chat...
No Smoking. You see the signs everywhere – EVERYWHERE! A new one went up in my pharmacy – which is way in the back of the store. NO SMOKING it says in bolded capital letters. As though there might be some question about it. I live in PA. Smoking has...
It seems that Ed Snowden has guaranteed that he will not be silenced – or, rather, that the information he gathered on the NSA's (constitutionally-questionable) spying activities will not be buried. No matter what happens to him, the info will be made public. Let's check this out below the Kosspaghetti.
Just in case there are any F**king Idiots left out there after OPOL's AWESOME DAMN DIARY, I'm going to link you to an interview – conducted just this past Monday, June 10, 2013 – with some guy you've probably never heard of. But he's important. And his name is Thomas...
I used to laugh at the jokes, “In Soviet Russia, Radio Listens To You!” and “In Soviet Russia, TV Watches You!” Today, I'm not laughing so much any more. In fact, I'm horrified. I have one question to ask, though. Who did I campaign for? I thought it was for...
I read a very interesting piece about the protests which have been sweeping across the major cities of Turkey. It seems that if you hold a people down with a heavy authoritative fist, they will eventually rise up and strike back. In this case, the Turks are doing so peacefully...
The diaries don't get much shorter than this. Right now on the Recommended List is THIS DIARY by Animal Nuz titled, “FBI Has Sworn Testimony & Documents Alleging Bachmann Approved Illegal Secret Payments”. I see significant legal trouble in this woman's future. The companion quote to this is from the...
This is going to be a short diary. I'm going to link you to the story in the Chicago Tribune after the Kospaghetti. While this certainly sounds like a mass shooting (and the results are exactly the same) all of these shootings happened in less than 24 hours.
People die. Every single day. Western tradition dictates that the dead be buried. It's a cultural thing that has been practiced by various civilizations for thousands of years. Other cultures have had or have developed their own, different ways of dealing with the dead – and I pass no judgement...
Wait – WHAT??? This is being reported by the folks at Salon.com, so I'm pretty confident that this is indeed true. Eden Foods, which bills itself as being “the oldest natural and organic food company in North America” has filed suit to exempt itself from the requirement under the Affordable...
You can't help but to admire a young man who stands solidly upon moral principle and refuses to capitulate – despite facing a jail sentence for his beliefs. His EIGHTH such jail sentence for refusing to knuckle under to the will of the state. Let's check this guy's story out,...
Years after President Obama promised to close that hell hole, the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have begun a hunger strike, and it seems that it didn't start just recently. Some have lost “30 pounds or more” according to one lawyer who represents 15 of the men being held there....
I'm not going to use the soap box. I'm just going to provide the link to the news story that I read and you folks can take it from there. It's under the squiggle.
Do you remember UNICEF? Perhaps you remember the “Trick or Treat for UNICEF” program that raised millions of dollars for that organization. They're still around and they're still helping children! Here's a very brief summary of what UNICEF is and what they do: UNICEF was created by the United Nations...
Amy Goodman. She's quite an American. Amy Goodman is “the co-founder, executive producer and host of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 900 public broadcast stations in North America.” This from one of the many bios about her. If by some chance you,...
Okay, while it isn't actually REAL poop (well mostly it's not real poop) – you don't want this in there. I'm not going to address the allowable level of rodent feces in hot dogs here. I'm not even going to extoll the dubious virtues of GMOs or the addition of...
Remember Scott Olsen? He is the Iraq War vet who stood between Occupy Oakland protesters and the Oakland PD in an effort to show solidarity with the Occupy Movement and help keep the two groups apart. A member of the OPD fired a “beanbag” round (or was it a teargas...
We have a report courtesy of the LA Times. From their Sports Now page(s). About this poor fellow.
No, no, no – this isn't some tongue-in-cheek diary meant to give you a good laugh during the last week of the presidential campaign. This is NOT a joke. A banker actually said this. Check it out:
It seems that if the rest of the civilized world (or, at least most of it) could vote in the upcoming American presidential election, they would vote for Barack Obama by a count of 50% for Obama to 9% for Romney. No shit. In a recent (10/22/2012) poll conducted by...
I'M a PA resident. This law SUCKS! It was, from the very beginning, designed and intended to disenfranchise minority and young voters in Pennsylvania. It has also threatened to disenfranchise older Pennsylvanians. People like my neighbor Ralph, who manned the radio in a B-24 over Italy, Germany, and the Pacific...
The term “revisionist” doesn't come anywhere NEAR what you're going to read in the article I link for you below! I've included a couple of samples just for interest.
Pro athletes have been making their views on a wide range of social and political issues known since . . . well, since there have been pro athletes. They are high-profile public figures and alot of kids look up to them. Maybe not for all the right reasons, but the...
Yes, I know that there are folks who detest Playboy Magazine for its pictorial content. This has nothing whatsoever to do with that. Even if you can't stand what Hugh M. Hefner started publishing almost 60 years ago, he has written an editorial which I believe most folks here can...
Oh, those whacky Republicans! And this time, it's the Republicans in Kentucky who've pegged the needle on my “Weird-Shit-O-Meter” this week. Sit on back in that chair of yours and prepare to be entertained by the hilarious antics and bizarre-o statements of these folks. According to an article written by...
I just saw this vid. It was posted to YouTube back in January of 2008. Don't discount the shock value of what you're going to watch just because this sworn testimony is four years old. This man's explanation of what can be done to elections software is proof enough of...
According to this report by Reuters, the NCAA has hit Penn State, their football program, and what is left of the “Paterno Legacy” with penalties which will leave it reeling for years to come. The school has been hit with a $60 million fine. The football program has been banned...
Oh, this is the PLACE, folks! This is the YouTube SOURCE for watching the ads that Obama's SuperPAC – PrioritiesUSAaction – produces and put onto TVs all over the nation. You can watch them all. You can subscribe to the channel and get the new ones posted to your YouTube...
And celebrate we do! Picnics. Cookouts. Parties. Parades. Every level of government shuts down. No banking, mail, or garbage collection. Most working people have the day off. We set off more fireworks on this day than during the other 364 days of the year combined. This IS a big day...
You know, every time I start to think that America has finally gotten itself just a little bit closer to being a non-racist society (and I know that it isn't yet, but we seem to be moving at a glacial pace in that direction), morons like these people rear their...
Fox News??? Could I possibly be serious about this? Well . . . Yes, I am serious about this, and I challenge you to disagree with more than just a few things this guy has to say. Actually, he's going to ask you questions – alot of “What if ....
It isn't because they hate us for our freedoms! The United Nations Security Council has 15 members. Five of them (China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States) are permanent members. The other ten (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Portugal, Brazil, India, South Africa, Colombia, Lebanon, Gabon, and...
“Holy Corruption, Batman!” As reported in the New York Times last week, 16 officers – many of them “white shirts” were formally charged (arraigned) in New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx with various crimes ranging from “fixing” tickets for friends and relatives all the way up to selling...
