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Top Comments - the Darkness and the West Wing
“Hello darkness, my old friend.”This happens to me more than I like to admit. I will have a diary in mind, and then, something late turns me onto an entirely different path. Today I was over 500 words...
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Top Comments - When this will all end, will we love more?
Hat tip to Kathy for finding this. More below.Top Comments recognizes the previous day's Top Mojo and strives to promote each day's outstanding comments through nominations made by Kossacks like you....
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Top Comments - Money is more important than people
The ...More below.Top Comments recognizes the previous day's Top Mojo and strives to promote each day's outstanding comments through nominations made by Kossacks like you. Please send comments (before...
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Top Comments - Lord of the Flies, Corrected
I have not seen this diaried, but I did not search very far back. Apologies if I missed it.Tom Sullivan, over at Digby’s Hullabaloo, posted about an instance of young boys marooned on an all but...
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Top Comments - Liberty AND Death
One of the biggest conflicts in our society is between those who have respect for the threat coronavirus represents, and those who find the idea of liberty - as peddled by Trump and Republicans - to be...
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Top Comments - Distrusting 'Washington'
NYT posted a fine article on the 23rd about the rampant distrust of ‘Washington.’Right at the beginning, it cited a statistic from 2019 that just 17% of our citizens trusted the federal government to...
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Top Comments - CNN Editorials
In the last 48 hours or so, CNN has cranked out a number of editorials pertaining to Twitler. Simple enough subject, certainly. They also did one on Roger Goodell, so I will loop that one in, too. The...
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Top Comments - Sarah Cooper and Verarschen
In February of 2017 (yes, right at the beginning of this long national nightmare), I wrote a Top Comments diary about the German phenomenon of ‘Verarschen.’Verarschen in the Age of Drumpf. I still...
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Top Comments - Loser-in-Chief
I would like to share with you an article I saw in The Atlantic. It was about the aftermath of his catastrophic rally in Tulsa, and the impact it had on the Ego in Chief. I would put up the picture at...
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Top Comments - Masks and the ‘Buy-In’ Conundrum
I’ve studied the phenomenon of ‘buy-in’ for many years. It has never been a huge problem for me. If it seems reasonable to buy in to an idea or a course of action, I do it. Its reasonableness in itself...
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Top Comments - Gratitude, For Love of Ernest and Shirley
Gratefulness, and ErnestIt’s a time of pain and conflict, with all that’s going on. Danger, threat, challenge. And yet, there is great beauty, too. I feel it in your presence. I feel it in the (often...
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Top Comments - Floor Jansen and Henk Poort Sing Phantom
There is a show on Dutch television (has been for quite a new years now) that features Dutch singers. It is called Beste Zangers. The artists sit in a comfortable setting and speak with each other (in...
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Top Comments - South Carolina loses to China and New Zealand
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Top Comments - Loyalty Oath World and masks
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Top Comments - Pandemic thoughts
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Top Comments - Mediocrity and the Supremes
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Top Comments - A Gift for Charlie Young
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Top Comments - Tim and Fred, In the Air Tonight
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Top Comments - NN2020
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Top Comments - Our friend, Debra, Kamala and Conflict
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Top Comments endorses Joe Biden
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Top Comments - I Don't Like Mondays, The West Wing
One of the dumber conversations I can imagine having with myself is about something like what is my favorite West Wing episode. I love just about all of them very deeply. (Okay, I didn’t like the...
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Top Comments - a different look into a viral meme
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Top Comments - Everything changed
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Top Comments - Light a Candle
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I just screened pictures of 71 individuals
Posted as participating in the terrorist insurrection yesterday.It does not surprise me that I didn’t know any of them. I don’t associate with people like that.But I am aware of local people who could...
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Impeached twice, yes, but the reality is much worse
I have been reading statements around the Internet about him being the only president to ever be impeached twice.Of course, that is quite true. But the facts are more damning.In November, after he...
View ArticleWhy is it that NO Republican Senator ...
Is telling Trump that the sure way to guarantee his conviction in the Senate impeachment trial is to pardon Capitol terrorists?As WGN in Chicago reports, at least one of the coup conspirators has...
View ArticleThe Crazy in the World
It’s easy to think - with what appears in our news feeds each day - that our country has cornered the market on crazy. Who could imagine that the world of professional bicycle racing would provide a...
View ArticleThe Happiest Ever Olympic Result, for me. With notes for Lindsey Jacobellis...
Well, no, of course I have never competed in the Olympic Games. But I have been a fan of many competitors in those events. I have attended two Games as a fan — Atlanta in 1996 and Salt Lake City in...
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Infinitely many deaths aren't enough
This is a revisit to a diary I posted in 2017, on the anniversary of the killing of a beautiful six year old boy in a South Carolina school shooting. There is no describing the dismay I feel today...
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Brazilian YouTube Series About A Beautiful Same Sex Couple — With A Serious...
(Note: At Gaelsdottir’s suggestion, the name of the diary has been changed. Thank you, G. The title of the series is: Stupid Wife. We don’t feel that reflects what the series is about, discussion in...
View Article2021 Paris-Roubaix winner retires: Sonny Colbrelli
On Sunday, Italian professional road cyclist, Sonny Colbrelli, retired from the sport as a consequence of problems caused by a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia experienced in a bicycle race earlier...
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Is this the 'Greatest Lesbian Web Series Ever?'
The Greatest Lesbian Web Series Ever?! Second verse, not the same as the first …Three months ago, I posted a diary about a Brazilian YouTube web series, featuring a lovely same sex couple, faced with a...
View ArticleTwo Season Netflix series - Warrior Nun
I read Franz Kafka’s story about the hero’s transformation into a beetle long before I had any sense that the story was more widely known. I was a young student of the German language, so it was in...
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Brittney Griner's Smile
In the mid-1960’s, a remarkable television series was broadcast. Branded was the story of a US soldier who was dishonorably discharged after the ‘massacre at Bitter Creek,’ fought against a band of...
View ArticleSTORYTIME: A Story from my 1976 visit to East Germany
I titled this diary as a Storytime diary in honor of a special friend who wrote a number of Storytime diaries back in the late 2000’s. (The search I constructed did not find all of hers, for whatever...
View ArticleMikaela Shiffrin stands alone in Women's Alpine Skiing, updated x 2.
Good morning.This only just happened, so it is not surprising that no one has diaried it. I know this is a political site, but we members have broad interests, and this is one of mine.The Alpine skiing...
View ArticleMikaela Shiffrin - 84
One of the ‘funny’ things about breaking records is what happens once the big record is broken. For just about all of her career, Mikaela Shiffrin looked up to Lindsey Vonn as the absolute record...
View ArticleI ❤️ DK Guild. Really.
Help DKG Solidarity Group celebrate Valentine's Day! This story is part of a series of I ❤️ DK Guild posts written by Community members to show their support for the writing, activism, and site...
View ArticlePaula Vogel's Indecent and 100 Years of Censorship and Bigotry
I’m going to ask something of you. I am not asking for myself, but for a group of drama students in a state where creativity is feared and frowned upon, where thinking is frowned upon, where growth -...
View ArticleDaily Kos Members Guild - when the parents fight
Ha! No such thing as Daily Kos Members Guild, right?!No, we members are not organized, we have no official or unofficial ‘guild,’ no representation, no legal counsel. We are just members. We just...
View ArticleRIP, Traute Lafrenz, last surviving White Rose member, 103 (Updated, with...
Sometimes we get news that causes us genuine pain. That was my experience tonight upon reading a Rachel Maddow tweet. Traute Lafrenz has died at age 103.x“She is a heroine of freedom and...
View ArticleMikaela Shiffrin did it! 87th World Cup victory! GOAT.
In January I wrote a diary about Mikaela Shiffrin’s 83rd Alpine World Cup victory, when she passed Lindsey Vonn for first place among women in total Alpine victories. This morning, two days before her...
View ArticleMike Pence and the (slightly) Altered Reality
In this scene, Mike Pence is in Hell, having a short conversation with his wealthiest patron, the Devil. In this reality, Pence had been killed by insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6, after...
View ArticleGillian, the dancer, is their target; a society without understanding,...
I saw a really incredible little story on Facebook.This story was posted by a group called Human Kindness. It is about a young English girl, Gillian, who was different. She had difficulty paying...
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Using Memes in Argument: Fathers and Gun Safety
One of my favorite things in social media is mining for interesting and potentially useful political memes. The latest thing I have found is memes pertaining to fathers, their benevolence and good...
View ArticleGiannis Antetokounmpo - Mental Health and the Bullsh*t Athletes Face
Many people were shocked on Wednesday when the favorites for this year’s NBA playoffs, the Giannis Antetokounmpo-led Milwaukee Bucks, lost in the first round of the playoffs to the underdog Miami...
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I visited Buchenwald, Auschwitz virtual tour next. Updated.
Some years ago I wrote about an experience I had when I was a student in what was then West Germany. The year was 1976, and the Cold War was in full swing. There were a number of ways to enter East...
View ArticleJason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham and Ugly Crying
My sister shared a YouTube video with me this evening, a duet with Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham.I must say, first, that I am a huge Ted Lasso fan. After the West Wing, I was convinced I’d never...
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