To all of the lurkers...come out of the shadows.
First a little background. I will admit it, I was a long time lurker before finally registering here back before the election. The prediction contest finally got me to sign up, I guess I'm a sucker...
View ArticleStart Acting Locally: The Difference You Can Make by Riding Your Bike.
Its May everyone, which means its National Bike to Work Month. Do you already have a bike? Good, then we can begin. This diary is intended to outline just exactly what environmental and economic...
View ArticleSome Sensible Solutions for Social Security
Let's get one thing straight. Health care reform should be enacted before we think about doing anything about Social Security, but as we have learned today, health care reform looks to be a priority...
View ArticleSomething I need to get off my chest
I left Iraq over five years ago. When my unit was called up in January of 2003 I was only nineteen. I celebrated my twentieth birthday in Iraq. I served as a supply specialist in an Army Reserve...
View ArticleWhy Monday is a holiday
I know this topic might be covered a lot this weekend, but I thought I would throw this onto the pile and add my perspective. Memorial Day is a day in which we take an opportunity to remember and...
View ArticleI'm concerned...
Concern troll diaries. We've all seen them, read them, and commented on them. I am writing this diary today to urge all other Kossacks to stop reading and recommending concern troll diaries. I like...
View ArticleNewsweek's stinging critique of Oprah's pseudoscience and poor medical advice
I just finished up reading the Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert article from the June 8th edition of Newsweek Magazine. It is a critique of the pseudoscience that routinely makes it onto broadcasts of...
View ArticleHow conservative economics f***ed up Africa
After studying African geography this spring, I became particularly outraged at something I really hadn't known about until learning about modern Africa. Specifically, I am talking about how...
View ArticleCNN: permit denied for Mousavi rally on Monday
I just caught this on CNN's website.TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran has rejected a request by opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi to hold a nationwide march Monday to protest the results of the...
View ArticleUS Men's Soccer Team Just Shocked the World
Wow. The United States men's soccer team has advanced to the finals of the FIFA Confederation's Cup by beating Spain 2-0. Spain is currently the number one soccer team in the world, this is just...
View ArticleDeep Thoughts
And now, Deep Thoughts, by jtb583...I wonder what the world would be like if instead of giving some generic response to the question of "How are you doing?" people actually said how they really felt....
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Deep Thoughts
And now, more Deep Thoughts by jtb583... .. Have you ever heard of the Greek philosopher Hypotheticles? Probably not, considering he spent all day thinking about what he could write instead of writing...
View ArticleTake some time off
The back and forth over the public option is getting pretty exhausting. Anonymously sourced story after anonymously sourced story ends up in reclisted diaries with loads of speculation in them. Blood...
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