EPA Libraries Shut Down In Bush Budget
The current plan for the Bush budget includes cutting, nay, obliterating the Environmental Protection Agency's library system. Not even the central catalog, the only record of the extensive collection...
View ArticleCall Congress: Ask for a "NO" vote on food labeling repeal
The House will be voting in a few hours on HR 4167, a bill that proposes to enact "uniform" food labeling laws. Uniform, as in if your state has more stringent labeling laws than the federal...
View ArticleTinfoil hats could be government plot: MIT research
In light of concern about the possibility that DHS might be monitoring dKos, I thought the community would wish to be informed about this matter. Some folks at MIT released a study on the efficacy of...
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Isfahan: Heart of Persia, Possible Ground Zero
 And here we begin yet another entry whose title was so very nearly something like, "How F*cking Stupid Are These CheeseF*cking, P*ssDrinking, GoatBl*wing Cretins!?" And I thought to myself, "Self,...
View ArticleFearing Crusade in Qatar
I took a look at Al Jazeera's arabic version via Google's beta Arabic translator today. Oh boy. While the translations still have a way to go, sentence structure variations clearly still a big hurdle,...
View ArticleSen. Cantwell & the 'Death to Iran' bill
I can barely steady my hands enough to type right now, I am indescribably furious and can only request leniency for the inevitable rhetorical excess to follow. I checked the Daily Kos this morning to...
View ArticleDeath to Iran, the 2nd: Boxer did it too!
I'm happy because my post yesterday got at least one friend of mine to call Sen. Cantwell's office and express their disapproval over the egregiously named Iran Freedom Support Act, or as I've come to...
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Interview w/ Cindy Sheehan in Seattle for McDermott Fundraiser
Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace spoke in Seattle this past weekend and was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for Rep. Jim McDermott's legal fund Sunday, naming the congressman as one of...
View ArticleAyaan Hirsi Ali No Longer Dutch
Though the Dutch parliament has insisted on an appeal, as reported by Al Jazeera, the most famous Dutch politician outside the Netherlands was notified that she would be stripped of her Dutch passport...
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Shiny, Happy Lichens in the SEM
And now, for something completely geeky: I've been virtually sequestered for the last couple weeks writing a soil science report, but on Friday I let myself out of the house-food source-computer lab...
View ArticleMark Warner on Iran and Venezuela
Mark Warner gave a beautiful speech at YearlyKos today about getting a fair shot at the American dream that could have been lifted right of the frontpages of dKos. But what about his foreign policy? He...
View ArticlePBS Budget Cuts Proposed. Again.
A 23% budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hence PBS and NPR, made it out of committee June 7. Tell your congresscritter to vote against slashing funds for public radio and television....
View ArticleFrameshop: Party of Cain
From the New American Bible, Genesis, Ch. 4:8 Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out in the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the LORD...
View Article45 Minutes With Darcy Burner (WA-8)
Darcy Burner, running in the highly competitive 8th Congressional District of Washington State sat down for a taped interview with me last September. Do you want to know why it took nearly a whole...
View ArticleTSA Sanctions Mile High Club
I don't usually go to Neil Gaiman's site for new information about the war on terror, but he's got some anyway. While he was looking through the list of proscribed items, he discovered that ......
View ArticleWA-08: Another 45 Minutes w/ Darcy Burner
Darcy Burner, Democratic candidate for the 8th Congressional District of Washington State (WA-08) running against incumbent Republican Dave Reichert, as interviewed on 8/22/06 for another 45...
View ArticleFor Lieberman
The Conneticut polls are a little disheartening, though I'm going to hold out hope all the way until Tuesday. You've got Ned Lamont, a great Democrat, vs. lying, possibly criminalRepublican, Joe...
View ArticleThe Racism of the Anti-War Movement
A retrospective of one of the most insidious neoconservative slams of opposition to the war in Iraq ...Former CIA director James Woolsey on Nightline - 03/04/03... There's a word for people who say...
View ArticleThe free movement of terrorists and their money
It wasn't until I read Digby's post about Bush's ongoing Strangelovism, which indeed should hardly be news, that I really noticed this other largely untrue thing Bush said in his state of the union...
View ArticleIran: Some Democratic presidential candidate views
Not-quite-live from the Democratic National Committee's Winter Meeting, I got to ask some of the candidates and possible candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination about their views on the...
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