Help Me With This
So what class am I? I’m thinking of this after watching the daily news.My father grew up on a farm in remote Missouri in the 1930s, but he was brilliant, and after serving in the Marines in WW2, he...
View ArticleNaming the Nazis
It’s amazing how much confusion there is over the names and labels for those asshole protestors in Charlottesville.Nazis.Neo-Nazis.Fascists.Neo-Fascists.Alt-Right.Skinheads.White supremacists.White...
View ArticlePlease go read and rec this diary!
In almost 14 years here I don’t think I’ve ever done this before, but I’m impelled to ask everybody to read and rec this great diary: www.dailykos.com/….
View ArticleStudent Attacked for Sitting during Pledge of Allegiance
Winters Mill High School is in Westminster, the country seat of rural, deep-red Carroll County, Maryland, which is about 40 miles northwest of Baltimore. Earlier this week a student was quietly...
View ArticleWhere is Kos?
This is Daily Kos. I signed up here 14 years ago, after at least a year of lurking, because of the daily posts from kos (Markos Moulitsas).I’m wondering what he’s up to. He hasn’t posted a diary...
View ArticleMy Favorite Poem: Relevant Today
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918 (written in 1880). 31. Spring and Fall to a young child MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man,...
View ArticleUpdate x1: Unbelievable AI Advance!! Super Go beats Previous Champion 100 to 0!!
www.sciencemag.org/…I just read about this in Science News. Two years ago the first version of this Google computer beat the world's champion Go player in a match. Go is much more complicated than...
View ArticleUPDATED: Some Good News About My Wife
I’ve written a couple of diaries about my wife’s battle with the rarest and most aggressive form of uterine cancer. The top-notch oncological surgeon said the chance of recurrence is 50-50, even with...
View ArticleGuilt About A Fundraising Call From A Candidate
I live in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. Although I’m in Carroll County, an incredibly red county, Jamie Raskin represents about half of the county (including me) after the latest...
View ArticleMy Franken Fantasy
Arne Carlson, a Republican former governor of Al Franken’s home state of Minnesota has called on him not to resign, at least not until he gets some proper due process. www.twincities.com/…I hope that’s...
View ArticleThe Helpdesk Has Blown Up
Ordinarily one would post a notice like this on the Helpdesk. But that’s currently impossible, since the Helpdesk itself has blown up. It’s now all in blue instead of orange. And the links don’t...
View ArticlePresident Pelosi
I had quite the dream last night. The Dems sweep both houses of Congress by huge majorities in 2018. They then immediately launch parallel impeachment proceedings against Trump and Pence at the same...
View ArticleThe Alien Intervention: A Dream
So this morning I had a really cool dream that’s worth writing down. If I had the time, it would make a nice scifi short story. . . .Suddenly there materializes on the White House lawn a bright-red...
View ArticleWas Netanyahu's Presentation A Hoax?
A few minutes ago Netanyahu gave a 20-minute theatrical powerpoint presentation in which he claimed that Israel had seized more than 110,000 Iranian documents and CDs, the so-called Iranian “Atomic...
View ArticleThe Pennsylvania Report about Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests
I’m almost 64 and a life-long Roman Catholic. I still regularly attend Mass on Sundays. I’ve never known anybody who said he or she was sexually abused by a priest, and I certainly was not myself....
View ArticleA Compelling Argument About Clerical Celibacy
I’m a very long-time Roman Catholic. As I wrote last night, I’m staggered by the recent Pennsylvania Grand Jury report that reports they have identified 300+ Catholic priests who committed child...
View ArticleToday is my 64th Birthday!
Today is my 64th birthday! I have lots of serious health problems. On top of Diabetes 2, and a falling problem, and a terrible gagging/coughing problem (diagnosed as “hyperactive gag reflex”), I’ve...
View ArticleMussels!
I’ve always been squeamish about eating mollusks. I absolutely won’t eat snails, squid, octopus, or oysters. I’ve always loved scallops. But I’ve always been on the fence about mussels,After...
View ArticleKhashoggi's U.S. Immigration Status
It’s been widely reported that Trump has diminished the importance of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by saying he’s not a U.S. citizen. When he said that at a press...
View ArticleWhitaker and Marbury v. Madison
There has been a lot of discussion today as to whether it was lawful for Trump to appoint Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General after Jeff Sessions was fired. I’ve read a lot on that, and I...
View ArticleThe Murderer in Thousand Oaks, CA
The media is engaged in so much head-scratching about why this guy shot up a night club in California. Good grief. I think the answer is obvious. The shooter was a mega loser who did manage to get...
View ArticleTrump v. Roberts
On Tuesday, Trump slammed the 9th Circuit, this time after a judge from the Northern District of California -- where cases get appealed to the 9th Circuit -- issued a temporary restraining order...
View ArticleHome Gyms
I’m 64 with major medical problems. Most alarming is that I’ve fallen several times and couldn’t get up. My wife actually called the local Rescue Squad to get me up one time about six months ago.No...
View ArticleFOX: Trump to show up for SOTU anyway
According to Fox News (I know, I know) Trump has sent a letter to the House Sergeant at Arms demanding a walk-through ahead of his intention to show up next Tuesday for the SOTU, notwithstanding...
View ArticleUPDATED x2 With Odd Request: The Hero of the Christchurch Mosque Massacres
I’ve just read the most amazing story: news.yahoo.com/…The white supremacist killer killed at least 41 at one mosque and went to drive to a second mosque. Inside that second mosque was 48-year-old...
View ArticleHeckboy!
Sometimes something touches your funny bone! This is a great example.The Week magazine is currently my favorite news magazine. Published in Britain, it has a U.S. version. It does incredibly sharp...
View ArticleMueller Report: Proof for Impeachment
So who has actually read the Mueller Report? I’ve read most of the 700+ page version of this from the Washington Post, which I think is the best version. I just read another 200 pages of it!It...
View ArticleWhat's up with Judge Emmet Sullivan!!
What’s up with Judge Emmet Sullivan!! As noted in this diary from a few days ago www.dailykos.com/…the DOJ, in perhaps the only time in U.S. history, just filed a notice with the court on Friday...
View ArticleLord Lasix
Have any of you been under the cold and imperious command of Lord Lasix? Lasix is a potent diuretic, also called Furosemide. It’s prescribed for swelling (usually lymphedema).I’ve had to take this...
View ArticleUpdated x1; Where, where is my little dog tonight?
I’ve always been a dog person. My #1 all-time favorite dog is our rescue miniature poodle Max. He’s now about 14. When we picked him up at the rescue shelter in Howard County, MD, he sat in my lap...
View ArticleMueller Hearing: Republicans Fall Into a Trap
Short diary, but sharp. I think the Republicans have overplayed their anti-Mueller hand. They got totally corrupt Republican AG Barr to issue a ridiculous and unprecedented (and illegal, in my...
View ArticleKaddish for my Dog
A few weeks ago I wrote a lugubrious diary about my all-time favorite little dog Max www.dailykos.com/…Well, the worst nightmares came true and after many years and many thousands of dollars of trying...
View ArticleWeld Accuses Trump Of Treason
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is one of Trump’s three primary challengers. In the wake of the Ukrainian scandal he just accused Trump of treason, and noted that the penalty for treason is...
View ArticleTrump: The Face of Evil
I’m so sick of seeing hundreds of pictures of evil Twitler every day! It has damaged my mental health and probably shortened my life. And I’m not one of those damaged much (at least so far) by his...
View ArticleTennessee "Haunted House"/Torture Chamber--Shocking!
I was shocked yesterday by an item I saw on Yahoo about a “haunted house” in Tennessee, part of the MSM’s standard build-up to Halloween. But this one is awful!Google “Tennessee haunted house” for...
View ArticleLies About Soleimani
Trump’s politically motivated murder of Iranian General Soleimani is an outrageous war crime.Every single talking head I’ve seen, including every Democratic legislator, has gone way out of the way to...
View ArticleToilet Paper Adventure
I’ve been nervous about so many reports of toilet paper shortages. I’m not about to start using catalog pages, as some of our friends have waggishly suggested. My wife and I are both elderly with...
View ArticleEDIT: Maryland Closes All Nonessential Businesses
Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan, the chairman of the national governors’ conference, just announced that all nonessential businesses in Maryland must close, effective 5 p.m. today.He said a...
View ArticleUpdated x 1/Why is Trump Suppressing COVID-19 Testing?
One thing that’s really bugging me these days is that Trump seems to be actively and maliciously suppressing testing for COVID-19 out of an insane belief that more testing will make his “numbers” look...
View ArticleOh Washington! My Washington!
I was born in 1954 in Washington, D.C. (in Garfield Hospital in N.E. which is now Washington Hospital Center). I’ve lived most of my life in and around the District. All of the places on TV today are...
View ArticleGod's Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his...
View ArticleWhat is your favorite album?
A couple of days ago BFSkinner had a diary asking for favorite album choices. I picked Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which is great but perhaps a little obscure.I want to pick again:...
View ArticlePersonal Lifting Devices
I’m about to turn 66 with several bad underlying conditions. For almost a year I’d escaped a fall, but I had two of them in the last two weeks. The first time, I managed to get up after a great...
View ArticleSecret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video
In a special report this morning on CBS News, Ted Koppel discussed the secret presidential emergency powers declared in Presidential Emergency Action Documents, which are so secret no member of...
View ArticlePoltergeist Button
Yesterday I took a shower in my walk-in tub. I had put my green shirt on the floor. As I was stepping outside the shower, I heard something fall. It turned out to be a big button from my shirt.How...
View ArticleDrones at the Inauguration
I’ve been watching an awful lot of TV, and doing a lot of reading, and I haven’t seen anything at all about the risk of a drone attack at the Inauguration. What kind of air defenses do they have?
View ArticleHow did the Trump impeachment lawyers withdraw?
A lawyer can’t just unilaterally fire a client for any reason. If a lawyer is representing a client before a tribunal (which usually means a court but in this instance I think this must also include...
View ArticleSome Questions About The Insurrection
I’ve watched all of the impeachment proceedings, and I have remaining questions.1. There are said to be thousands of insurrectionists. How many were inside the Capitol?2. How is it possible that at...
View ArticleWhat Were the Insurrectionists Actually Up To?
I’ve been watching the news closely for weeks, and I still can’t figure out exactly what the insurrectionists were up to. Did Trump just unleash the whirlwind with nothing but a love of chaos? Or did...
View ArticleHuusk knives: very strange scam
Japanese knives and swords have been famous for a thousand years. Recently I was inundated by Internet ads for a super-duper knife from “Huusk Japan.” The ads were impressive, and the price was...
View Article
