He might have been a lawyer, but the law school he applied to rejected him because he was black ( Read more... )

When I wrote my Memorial Day letter, I wrote it so I wouldn't have to bother using gendered pronouns ( Read more... )

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, is introducing 35 articles of impeachment for President Bush.

And not as a favor, either.

who wants to know more about those three words people have written about re: Jim McKay's death. (Those who did not read my DK diary will be massively confused by some of the text here. I therefore urge any interested parties to go to iampunha.dailykos.com some point later today to read about Maslow's hierarchy of needs.)

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Recently had one of those "What if I were, right now, somehow transported back 400 years?" inner dialogues.

First thought: "Oh, man, I could so influence the future of English!"

(True, I could also have gone to a Shakespeare play, though the after-party wouldn't have been so hot. But, um, I would have understood approximately none of same play.)

No, the stuff isn't yet filling the airwaves down here, but I had a hankering for some Christmas music tonight (this morning), so I went to see what YouTube had to offer ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html

Takers on the rote response from government "health" lobbyists officials? I'm thinking ( Read more... )

Obama/Powell.

Yes, Colin Powell.

I have no hard analysis for you right now on why this would work. I know there are many drawbacks to it.

But just think about it.

If you want the Daily Kos community to be exposed to a relatively obscure happening, tell me about it and give me a significant date in it so I can run it in my Today in History series.