Big Pharma wants to kill us!
I have serious COPD. One of the drugs that allow me to do things like go for a walk or even climb the stairs to bed without being connected to an oxygen machine is called Combivent. When my doctor...
View ArticleNYT Readers On Immigration
When I read an NY Times opinion piece, I find it most enlightening to go the the comments by Times readers that are most recced by Times readers. Yesterday, the Times published a pro-immigration piece...
View ArticleImmigration Will Give Trump A Second Term
I and my Democrat friends are alarmed at the attitude of many in our Party about the situation at our southern border. Have you read the excellent Newsweek article DONALD TRUMP IS RIGHT, THERE IS A...
View ArticleBook Review: Billions Must Die
It seems quite clear that people now alive will see the tropical regions of the Earth become uninhabitable; look at Australia already. Where will the people living in the tropics go? There are over 400...
View ArticleDepressed? Anxious? Cannabis Microdosing!
Hey, feeling kind of depressed? Feel like life is pointless? Or maybe your problem is more in the area of anxiety and sleeplessness? It seems like there’s a lot of that going around lately.Maybe...
View ArticleGoodall Nails It -- Trump:chimp
I can’t believe this hasn’t been diaried here. Jane Goodall has an interview in The Atlantic likening Trump’s act to chimp dominance behavior. From The Hill:thehill.com/…In order to impress rivals,...
View ArticleI Don't Get "BLM"
Something doesn't make sense to me. Every time there is an unjust shooting of a Black person by police in this country, our media erupts. TV, newspapers, the internet -- we are inundated with details...
View ArticleNY Times (and its readers) on immigration. Also, Brexit.
When I read a NY Times opinion piece of particular interest to me (especially one I disagree with), I like to go to the user comments and sort them in order of ones with the most user recs. This is...
View ArticleTrump? Piffle.
I can't believe people are frightened of a horror-movie clown who has as much chance of becoming our next president as I do.No, the real monster is the warmongering, misogynistic, homophobic, racist,...
View ArticleCologne NYD Attacks And NY Times Reader Response
In its opinion pages, the New York Times regularly prints a "Room For Debate" feature, with opinion pieces by six or so writers of varying opinions. Reader comments on these pieces are taken, and the...
View ArticleWhite Privilege? What White Privilege?
In the early '70s, about 2 A.M. one fall morning, a Taos cop stopped me for a busted tail light, came around to the side of my Jeep and shined his light into my window. I reeked of alcohol, and there...
View ArticleAnti-Science, Genocide, GMO, and Nuclear Power
Today's edition of the New York Times contains an important and disquieting piece, "The Next Genocide", by Timothy Snyder, on the danger of science denial, particularly the denial of climate change....
View ArticleBooks so bad they're good: Hating Perfection
This very strange book just appeared in the mail recently: Hating Perfection, by John F. Williams. It is a collection of personal anecdotes, tales, and parables, beginninng with an account of taking a...
View ArticleThe Final Word on Gluten
I felt I just had to share this:https://www.youtube.com/...I'm working on a version of it for the anti-"GMO" people.
View ArticleHarper Lee, Texan Daddy, and Reality
Now, I have not read the new "Watchman" novel, and this is not a review of the book. I have avidly read a number of reviews of it, and I believe I get the picture: Watchman is set in the real South of...
View ArticleGrammar cop can't stand it any longer!
With pronouns, an apostrophe indicates a contraction. This is not differential equations, people. If your poor brain is incapable of comprehending the meaning of the words "pronoun" and "contraction",...
View ArticleTerror in the garden. Help!
Over a month ago, I bought a little basil plant at a local nursery, brought it home, and put it in my grow room with all the vegetables that I had started from seed. Well, this basil plant had a nasty...
View ArticleRadical Liberals, Purity Police, and Hijabs
A diary published yesterday really hit home with me; it was about the inability on DKos to disagree with positions strongly held by some groups without being mobbed by attacks, buried under HRs, or...
View ArticleOn those evil Russians
The universal American condemnation of Russia over Crimea strikes me as a bit myopically one sided.The Russian Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol is a lot more important to them than Guantanamo is to...
View ArticleOh, pun thread. New usernames
So, you've just discovered Daily Kos, or maybe you're a long term lurker, and you've decided you have something to say; you want to become a member of this community. Now the question arises, what to...
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