How I'm Observing 9/11 - Please Join Me
September 11, 2001 was a big day in my life. From 3,000 miles away, I watched the planes crash and the towers collapse. I went into shock, I think -- I can remember that, despite it being a...
View ArticleThank You, Wendell Potter
Hi, Wendell. I don't know if you'll read this, but I feel like writing it today, so follow me over the flip.
View ArticleFilibuster for One, Please: Bernie Sanders is Speaking on the Senate Floor...
He made a Facebook post about ten minutes ago:You can call what I am doing today whatever you want, you it call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech. I'm not here to set any great...
View ArticleACTION: Are you going to call your Congresslizards today?
Are you?Or is DK once again just going to be an echo chamber of people wringing their hands over this godforsaken, stupid, corrupt tax deal and moaning about how awful it all is?Personally, I vote for...
View ArticleThe Winter Solstice
I'm dusting off my annual Solstice diary and reposting it today. It's not long, but it's heartfelt.Although I am not there now, for a lot of years I lived in the Pacific Northwest.Of all of the...
View ArticleChristmas Music for Snobs
This is a re-post of a diary I put up around this time last year. I am a snob. A really specific kind of snob.I have rather highbrow taste in Christmas music -- I like it old and I like it a capella....
View ArticleChristmas Eve and Health Care in America
I write this tonight as my mother is sleeping fitfully in her room, a few steps down the hall. I'll just be dozing tonight as I'll have to be getting up to check on her every few hours. I brought her...
View ArticleFriday Night Music Cabal: Always Look on the Dark Side of Life
Welcome to the Team DFH Friday Night Music Cabal. Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, this diary series doesn’t actually have a formal name (last time it was “Friday Night Feel...
View Article‘Standing with Barack Obama’ on LGBT Issues: Really?
Really?I’m seeing the ads everywhere, for barackobama.com. My Facebook page is positively infested with them. And every time I see one, my blood pressure ratchets up another notch.I’m pleased that...
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