I Said Yes: A Love Story

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Monday March 26, 2012 · 2:58 PM PDT

2012/03/26 · 14:58

Four years ago this Thursday, a college junior named Richard took his girlfriend out to dinner. On the way back to campus, he led his girlfriend to a white gazebo in the middle of the local arboretum. He got down on one knee, recited a carefully practiced Shakespearean sonnet with only the barest of hitches, and took out a ring. A look of panic crossed his face.

"I was too busy practicing the poem to think about the question," he said. "So, I guess, um...marry me?"

I didn't hesitate.

I said yes.

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Wednesday April 22, 2009 · 7:34 PM PDT

2009/04/22 · 19:34

Today was nothing special. Just an ordinary day.

I woke up, went to work at the office. I typed. I copied. I mailed letters. I had lunch. I realized that I forgot to include the enclosure in one of the sent letters. I resent it. I got a cup of water. I typed and copied. I took a package to the post office. I scanned. I copied the scans. I typed. I went home and had dinner. I plopped in front of the computer and read DailyKos. Soon, I'll go to bed.

Just an ordinary day.

Except, that it isn't. Not quite.

Elsinora

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Thursday January 01, 2009 · 2:36 PM PST

2009/01/01 · 14:36

One Request: A lot of you have been offering great suggestions, but if you could write definitions for your proposed entries, I would be very grateful...especially since many of you have made suggestions that predate my time here!

Well, 2008 is now over. But what a year it was for us here at DailyKos! Polls, debates, political scandals, and wars abounded (also, yoobetcha), but perhaps most importantly, DailyKos passed the 200,000 user mark. Congrats and welcome to all!

I understand that DailyKos can be, well, a little daunting to a newbie, especially when it comes to understanding all the Kossack jargon. Nonetheless, fear not, new users, for I have written a comprehensive guide to understanding Kos-speak. With luck, this lexicon will enable new and old users alike to communicate and understand each other a little better this year. (Note that words are not in alphabetical order, and that how a word is commonly defined on DailyKos may not necessarily match its definitions elsewhere.)

THE OFFICIAL 2009 DAILYKOS LEXICON
(All New, With Improved Thesaurus Action!)

The fold, n. The "_____'s diary" hyperlink which appears after the end of the introduction section of a diary, i.e.:

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Is this a poll?

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Is this a poll?

Pie

539 votes

Shana Tova, KosYomyom!

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 4:42 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 16:42

(UPDATE: In response to the questions, "Yomyom" is Hebrew for "Daily." Hence, KosYomyom means DailyKos in Hebrew. Well, technically, it means DailyCup, since "kos" means "cup" in Hebrew, but not much I can do about that!)

That's right, today is Rosh Hashana (er, was, in my time zone)--Tishrei 1, 5769, the first day of the new Jewish year. Happy New Year, everyone!

For the goyim among us, the major themes of Rosh Hashana are ones we can all appreciate: repentance of the past, renewal and rededication in the present, and hope for the future. Sounds kind of like the themes of Obama's campaign to me, don't you think? So, this Rosh Hashana, I challenge you all to make this new year a good one by helping to elect Barack Obama our president.

It's a mitzvah!

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 11:58 AM PDT

2008/09/19 · 11:58

Some of you may recall this diary from May, about my twin cousins, Becca and David. Becca is a normal young woman, but David is severely autistic, unable to speak or to get by without constant one-on-one aid. Because of this, Becca, even at the tender age of thirteen, is a passionate supporter and fundraiser for autism research, having raised over $10,000 total in her first two years as the head of her own autism walk team.

In my last diary, I focused mostly on David's story. This time around, though, I'd like to tell you a little more about Becca's story.

Because the future of activism looks like this:

Becca's autism walk team at last year's walk

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 3:02 PM PDT

2008/07/07 · 15:02

(by bobswern, posted by request)

This belongs at the top of every Democratic blog in the universe. This story's breaking this afternoon in NY's 19th Congressional District via the The Middletown, NY Times Herald-Record, where the most righteous of all political journalists, Hunter S. Thompson, started his career.

I'm sure our nothing-less-than-awesomely progressive Congressman John Hall is going to have a field day with this outrageous piece. I hope this makes the top of every news outlet in the country in the next few hours. If you're reading this, please spread this one far and wide! Time's a wastin'!

HOSPITAL WON'T ACCEPT ITS OWN EMPLOYEES INSURANCE
--St. Luke's Cornwall says insurer is slow to pay, unresponsive--
By Christian Livermore
Times Herald-Record
July 07, 2008 12:32 PM
http://www.recordonline.com/...

In what hospital officials say is a financial decision but union members chalk up to spite, St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital has stopped accepting its own employees' health insurance.

The Grieving Room: Songs Unsung

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Monday June 23, 2008 · 2:55 PM PDT

2008/06/23 · 14:55

(Note: I know this is early in the day for a Grieving Room diary, but I unfortunately have somewhere I have to be this evening--but if somebody wants to post a redirect diary closer to the "proper time," I'd be very grateful. I'll try to come back later tonight and respond to comments. Sorry about any confusion!)

Where I live, there is a common saying: "If you don't like the weather in Wisconsin, wait five minutes." My family, over the years, has developed its own jaded version of the saying: "If there hasn't been a death in the family/family friends circle lately, wait two months."

There have been suicides. There have been fires. There have been accidents. There have been unexpected heart failures. What there has not been, most of the time, is time. In my family, death comes suddenly to the people you least expect in ways you could never have imagined--but the people you almost expected to die "at any time" for years linger on.

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Monday June 09, 2008 · 2:14 PM PDT

2008/06/09 · 14:14

(Note: No, I do not condone everything Secretary Albright ever said or did. No, I am not some starry-eyed and naive unequivocal Albright supporter. Yes, I do respect her for her education, her brains, and for how high she rose despite being a woman and an immigrant. Yes, I do think this speech is worth a look--and I would think that no matter who delivered it. Yes, if she had come to make a normal speech and not a Commencement address, I would have felt inclined to ask her some tough questions about Rwanda and Iraq, as I did with Ashcroft on the issue of waterboarding. So please, take your condescension and your "ZOMG I HATE HER!!!!!one" elsewhere, because I frankly don't care.)

On Saturday, I graduated from Knox College--a small but respected school which really puts the "liberal" in liberal arts. Thanks to our historical stature (our signature building, Old Main, was the site of the Lincoln-Douglas debate at which Lincoln first denounced slavery as a moral evil) and a certain alumnus and prominent Democrat named John Podesta, we've had a great run of Commencement speakers lately (Barack Obama in 2005, Stephen Colbert in 2006, and Bill Clinton last year), culminating in this year's speaker: former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

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Tuesday May 20, 2008 · 2:16 PM PDT

2008/05/20 · 14:16

This past weekend, my thirteen-year-old cousin Becca put on a tallis for the first time, was called up to the Torah, and became a Bat Mitzvah. Watching her at the pulpit, clearly and confidently delivering her d'var Torah, I almost couldn't believe that this was the same girl who, as a stubborn kindergartener, had shied away from the limelight in our family skits. Yet here she was: a child no longer, but a full-fledged young woman, poised and proud and capable as she chanted the age-old melody of Parshat Behar. It was truly a simcha--a joy--to witness her coming of age. And yet, there was also sadness. Something was missing.

You see, Becca has a twin.

Elsinora

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 9:10 PM PDT

2008/05/13 · 21:10

It's a great night to be a Dem on the Big Orange. Let's uncork the mojo, donate to Obama and Kleeb, bring on the pooties and pie, and CELEBRATE!

And because it never gets old:

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Which song best sums up the Dems in November?

31 votes Vote Now!

Which song best sums up the Dems in November?

Knights of Cydonia

2 votes

We Are The Champions

6 votes

We're Not Gonna Take It

6 votes

Blackbird

2 votes

Higher Ground

11 votes

Other (nominate in the comments)

4 votes

IsraelKos and MyPalestine: A Peace Plan for the Progressive Blogosphere

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 3:48 PM PDT

2008/04/30 · 15:48

(Cross posted at MyDD. Check it out here.)

Where have I seen this before?

We have here two groups--originally cohabitant, but now separated by partition--fighting over the same territory. One group insists that they are being victimized and overrun; the other group insists that the first group is actually launching attacks on them to try to eliminate or overpower them. Both groups make gross exaggerations and generalizations about the other group. Both groups insist that the other group started it. In both groups, voices of reason are ignored in favor of rabid extremist haters. And because nobody is willing to be the first to stop the poo-flinging, the entire region ends up drowning in metaphorical excrement.

I could be describing Israel/Palestine.

I could also be describing us.

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Will you follow the peace agreement?

35 votes Vote Now!

Will you follow the peace agreement?

Do I have to?

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Yes. Let's bring some dignity and purpose back to the netroots.

20 votes

No. Peace is overrated, and besides, they started it!

11 votes

John Ashcroft Yelled at Me Update: Video, Hate Mail, and More

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Friday April 25, 2008 · 11:34 AM PDT

2008/04/25 · 11:34

It's been brought to my attention that video of my exchange with John Ashcroft has finally surfaced, and that the dialogue doesn't precisely match my memorial reconstruction of it in my earlier thread. Substantially, it is the same--I ask about Yukio Asano, he says the cases aren't comparable because one is pouring and the other is forcing, he gets angry--but the phrase "apples and oranges" was never actually uttered. For anyone who might have an issue with my errors, I am sincerely sorry. To clear the record and let you judge for yourselves how accurate I was or was not, here is the video of the exchange:

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