Low-petroleum organic agriculture in Cuba
An alternate title for this, my first Daily Kos diary, is "What can we learn from Cuban low-petroleum agriculture?"Cuba, a country that has faced economic hardship as a result of punitive, longstanding...
View ArticleNew York County District Attorney Race
Here in New York City, we're being deluged with direct mail, not only for Mayor (why doesn't Bloomberg just save his money, since we all know him, and he's gonna win, anyway?) but for lower offices,...
View ArticleSotomayor on corporate personhood
Even those of us who have some doubt that Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be as liberal as some hope and others fear overwhelmingly supported her confirmation because of her extremely impressive...
View ArticleRespect and care for each other: An Israel/Palestine diary
I have long felt that the biggest problem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a lack of human respect and decency too many people give to each other. When Palestinians' experience with Israelis is...
View ArticleThe American Civil Liberties Union - Fighting for our rights
Many of us are old enough to remember when red-baiter and former CIA Chief, George HW Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in part by saying in spooky tones that Dukakis was a "card-carrying member of the...
View ArticleThe stupidity of Israeli policy on Gaza
I tread into the lion's den of Israel/Palestine diaries with a bit of reluctance, given the amount of invective these topics tend to occasion, but I do so in order to focus on a larger question, which...
View ArticleWhat are the responsibilities of citizenship?
On Daily Kos, we talk a great deal about what the politicians should do and how much they are falling short, or sometimes doing right. What I haven't seen a lot of discussion on is this: What are the...
View ArticleMichael's Senate ratings, 8/19/2012
After posting about the risks of partisan bias unduly influencing election ratings and forecasts, I thought it would be fair for me to put my money where my mouth is. I claim no expertise in...
View ArticleMichael's Senate ratings, 10/23/2012
Like everyone else, I find the polling picture very confused and confusing (and that's caused me to hesitate in composing a new Senate race ratings diary), but I still would like to make new...
View ArticleMichael's Senate ratings, 10/31/12
Happy Halloween, to those of you outside the Sandy disaster area who are celebrating. I've got nothing but time, seeing how a concert I was scheduled to perform last Friday was cancelled due to the...
View ArticlePreliminary US Senate Ratings
Hi, everybody. This started as a response to SCDem4's "Complete Analysis of the 2014 Senate Elections" diary, but it got too long, so I started a new diary. All of these are quite preliminary thoughts,...
View ArticleStop comparing everything to Nazism
I mostly read Daily Kos Elections diaries and stories, but I'm also interested in diaries and stories on the front page. For various reasons, reading the response threads in such diaries can be an...
View ArticleStop attacking musicians
I'm very angry tonight, because an strain of anti-intellectualism has reared its ugly head on this website, and in the process of doing so, has personally attacked me as a worker in the field of music....
View ArticleAction on behalf of black Dominicans before they are all deported
Yesterday, gjohnsit posted a shocking diary, detailing the plans of the Dominican government to start expelling 250,000 black Dominicans of Haitian descent on Thursday and continue until all of them...
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