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Sunday November 11, 2012 · 1:53 PM PST

2012/11/11 · 13:53

So, how about that election, huh? I'm so glad it's over and I promised myself I'd move on to other things but this was a Big One-- maybe the most consequential election since Prop 13 passed in California in 1978-- and I didn't want to let the moment slip by.

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Friday March 25, 2011 · 10:28 AM PDT

2011/03/25 · 10:28

Of all the bad, crazy, horrifying things that happened during (and as a consequence of) the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 the thing that froze my soul and has stayed with me to this day is something we still only whisper about: the Jumpers. Remember them? People no different from you or me forced into a choice beyond imagining: trapped in burning building far above the ground, do I stay here and burn alive or do I jump and fall to my death? The utter cruelty of that no-win dilemma-- the sheer animal panic of choosing one death to escape another that is bearing down fast upon you-- sends the mind fleeing from reason.

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Friday September 17, 2010 · 9:54 AM PDT

2010/09/17 · 09:54

Democrats are doomed, I tells ya, DOOMED!

That's certainly the narrative that the Beltway press has been selling for more than a year now. Is it true? Is it just a story that has become conventional wisdom through lazy repetition? How could we tell?

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Concerning the November midterm elections, I plan to:

70 votes Vote Now!

Concerning the November midterm elections, I plan to:

39 votes

24 votes

Stay home.

5 votes

Actively oppose my local Dem/progressive candidates.

0 votes

Anyone Have Non-Profit Online Fundraising Expertise?

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Tuesday October 06, 2009 · 11:18 AM PDT

2009/10/06 · 11:18

I'll make this short and sweet. A good friend runs a top-notch non-profit treatment center that provides much-needed substance abuse treatment and family counseling to some of the Los Angeles county's most vulnerable citizens. Sadly, like so many other groups who provide crucial social services, the center has been hit hard by the recession and state/county budget cuts and its very future is in jeopardy. No, this isn't an "ask" for donations; I need help from the community here with how to set them up with an online fundraising network.

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Sunday September 27, 2009 · 10:28 AM PDT

2009/09/27 · 10:28

Reading Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action. Great book.

While making a larger point about how it is generally a mistake to view intelligence solely as a an individual matter of capacity, Dewey goes off on an interesting tangent about how scientific learning (and it’s concrete manifestation, technology) are largely cooperative social phenomena. Good point. Even the most way-out, novel invention is usually still little more than a tiny victor’s flag planted on the summit of other peoples’ labor. As Newton said, "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." Smart guy, that Ike.

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Sunday June 21, 2009 · 6:55 PM PDT

2009/06/21 · 18:55

(Metaphorically, natch.)

The fight for genuine health care reform will continue through the summer but we need to start now if we're going to have any hope of facing down the enemies of real change.

We need to fight hard. Just getting a 10-point plan out there and expecting the public to connect the dots, or playing on people's heartstrings about uninsured families (as tragic as that is) just isn't going to cut it. The public is mad and they aren't getting the change that they voted for 6 months ago. Whoever co-opts that anger will win the health care debate. Right now, the forces opposed to the public option are trying to channel that anger using the same old 90s "big government" rants. It isn't working like it used to, but if the that message is the only message that resonates with people's anger at the current system they will win by default.

We can't let that happen.

Join me over the jump for more...

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Sunday June 07, 2009 · 10:18 AM PDT

2009/06/07 · 10:18

President Obama's calls for greater civic engagement is directly at odds with the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The two things cannot be reconciled.

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Sunday May 24, 2009 · 12:15 PM PDT

2009/05/24 · 12:15

I've basically sworn off of Meet The Press since Tim Russert died, but, this morning I had it on for background noise while doing some house chores and I'm glad I tuned in. This morning, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich boiled the vast, epic failure of the Republican Party on matters of national security down to a single, concentrated drop.

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Monday May 11, 2009 · 11:43 AM PDT

2009/05/11 · 11:43

While everyone is rightly focused on making sure that a "public option" remains a central pillar of healthcare reform, I didn't want this important story to slip under the radar:

TEHRAN, Iran - An American journalist jailed for four months in Iran was freed Monday and reunited with her parents after an appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. Her parents said they would bring her home to the U.S. within days.

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 8:02 PM PDT

2008/09/27 · 20:02

I know I shouldn't do this.

Toby Ziegler would kick my ass if he saw it (and, you know, if he actually existed).

I don't even want to think it.

You are going to say that I'm getting complacent. Actually, its just the opposite.

You are going to flame me for being a jinx. Maybe you're right.

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 1:20 PM PDT

2008/09/08 · 13:20

John McCain and Sarah Palin wish that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would just go away. On this we may agree; but our reasons for wanting them to disappear couldn't be more different. We want Bush to go away because his dumb-ass policies and anti-democratic governing style have been a total disaster for the country; McCain and Palin want Der Fratboy to go away because, although they don't offer anything different from Bush in terms of policy or style, they are at least smart enough to see that 80% of the country hates Bush's guts and they are hoping to escape the stench of epic failure.

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"We all know that John McCain backed George W. Bush 90% of the time-- Palin just fills in the missing 10%" is...

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"We all know that John McCain backed George W. Bush 90% of the time-- Palin just fills in the missing 10%" is...

very effective

27 votes

somewhat effective

11 votes

not very effective

8 votes

not at all effective

7 votes

My Brother, My Hero

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Friday June 13, 2008 · 11:10 AM PDT

2008/06/13 · 11:10

Ah, life's bittersweet moments.

I just hugged my brother goodbye and wished him luck as he sets out on a truly great adventure. Its hard not to feel a little sad. We're very close, as brothers go, and it will be a while before we will have a chance to plug in the old XBox or goof on Chris Matthews together.

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