The green light at the end of Daisy's dock
"And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock." I know some things now. I know I am far less...
View ArticleI was young too once, whippersnapper
This is in response to Wilbur's excellent diary of reminiscing, which you may read here. We might both be from the United States, but we come from different universes.
View ArticleElectoral grammar: a tense question
This is a fairly short diary, but it is based on something that has been bugging me a lot lately. Bush's speech yesterday put me over the top. There are basically two ways a party and a candidate can...
View ArticleThe Wisdom Of Billy Joel for the Progressive Heart
I've burned out a bit over the last few months (again). It seems to be a recurring theme nowadays. There's no place to discuss the necessary role of the public and our branches of government and what...
View ArticleWho Is This Man, Wes Clark?
If Wes Clark had not made a presidential run in ‘04, if it did not seem that he may do the same in ‘08, it's highly unlikely that we would be seeing his name in diary titles at Dkos.But he did and he...
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History Happens; Ebbs And Flows. Emotions Are Entrenched
copyright © 2007 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.orgOn any given day, in any given way we create a foundation for our lives. What we think, say, do, or feel will be with us throughout our existence. Even...
View ArticleIowa Caucus Then & Now
What a contrast in narratives for this cycle's Iowas caucus as opposed to 2004's. For 48 hours after the 2004 Iowa caucus the narrative was the "Dean Scream." The continious loop of that moment on all...
View ArticleDid the speech work? Part 2 and other stuff
I had posted a diary a week back about the effect of Obama's speech. Most comments in the diary indicated that it was too early to judge the effect of the speech. Hence an updated diary.Here is the...
View ArticleAll but one newspaper in PA endorse Obama
I just came across this piece on TPM. They’ve listed the newspapers endorsing Hills and Barack; all but one has endorsed the Senator from Illinois.http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...Papers...
View ArticleThe Future versus the Past with poll
I was just checking out 538 and had this little brainwave about how Obama wins. Instead of talking about change, talk about the future.
View Articlea clearer mirror with history nearer
We need a Secretary of history, a full cabinet position whose department would be responsible for historic content and accuracy as it relates to important decisions, especially war. Example: Mohammad...
View ArticleDreams of our Ancestors. Remembering our past and embracing our future.
While we get caught up in the aspects of winning the campaign lets not forget the historical nature of this moment. A moment we live in. Where we can tell our children I was there. Sometimes I imagine...
View ArticleD-Kos generations..what's shaped your views ?
Reading over all of the various diaries, it occurred to me...What is it that has shaped everyone who comes here? Their politics, their perception of country, their ideal of what it means to be...
View ArticlePutting our behinds in our past
We've been very future-oriented of late, what with the promise of a new era of hope despite the darkness on the road just ahead. Hey, that's great. I'm all about the future, all about looking ahead...
View ArticleEarliest Childhood Memories Shared, What's Yours?
What makes an ordinary life extraordinary? It’s all in the telling. Who cares if you were wearing argyle socks? Or what color your shirt was, it is all about the story. Extraordinary things happen...
View ArticleWhy Does Everyone Love a Dick....Cheney?
There has been so much going on in the news and the media after Obama's election. I asked a close friend if it has always been like this, and he stated no......this is different. I thought that was the...
View ArticleRepublicans, Race and Reality;where their fear is coming from
Have you ever had a period in your life when you feel like you are on a tightrope with no net? Maybe your husband or wife is losing their job and your financial security is in jeapardy, maybe your...
View ArticleYesterday, today, and tomorrow
We all know the right is unhinged. We all know how much they hate/fear President Obama. We're at an interesting juncture in his term in office. Yesterday we saw their true nature revealed in an...
View ArticleReform: Past, Present, Future, or Somewhere in Between
Once upon a time, we saw progress, particularly technological and medical progress, as both miraculous and uniformly desired. The romanticized meta-narrative of the the Twentieth Century was that it...
View ArticleThe Anchor
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen we think about liberal...
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Polarization: Past and Present
A number of commentators have lamented increasing polarization in Washington. Conventional wisdom has it that America is as divided and partisan as it ever has been. Sectional divisions are tearing...
View ArticleClinging to Glory
The teabaggers are predominantly baby-boomers who grew up in and around the 50's, in the echo of one of America's greatest victories (WWII) and the era of its greatest rise in power. America was the...
View ArticleBeck's Epic Win, Be Very Afraid
After watching parts of the Beck rally and seeing him in "action", I am not sure what I was watching, but it did remind me of something. What happens when god fearing religious fanatics feel powerless???
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems from The Left
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Indigo Kalliope: Poems from The Left“Words as Weapons: The Ammunition of Peace”Join us every Monday evening for drinks at the new Kos community political poetry...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems from The Left - The Protest Song
Welcome to the second installment of Indigo Kalliope: Poems from The LeftJoin us every Monday evening for drinks at the new Kos community political poetry club. Drop by and speak your mind in rhyme or...
View Articlenow 66 and counting . . .
66 does not seem as if it should be a momentous birthday. Except for those of us reaching that age now, it means we are eligible for our full Social Security benefits (except I chose to begin to...
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Top Comments - Overcoming Familial Republicanism
I WAS OUT on the roads today, looking at a series of signs for political candidates, almost all of them Republican. Pretty disgusting. And they put the word “Republican” right on the signs, almost as...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Clearing Out the Lives of the Dead
I have been spending most of the day for the last week cleaning out my brother and parent’s house. We lost Dad in 1999 and no one went through his things. We lost Mom in 2010 and I’ve gotten through...
View ArticleCentenary musings on a poem of Anna Akhmatova
"Cabaret Artistique" January 1, 1913Всемыбражникиздесь, блудницы, We're all revelers here, prostitutes,Какневеселовместенам!...
View ArticleLife's Dynamic..unto Death's Mystery
if half the book is missing…does it kill you…a half finished book is…after all…a half finished love affair…just trying to understand…why we keep making the same mistakes…over and over…our lives…and our...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, The Future Is Not Ours (and Neither Is the Past)
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Requiem for the American CenturyTurning 70, Paragraph by Paragraph By Tom...
View ArticleWhat songs bring back good memories of you when you were a kid?
I need some good memories... it has been a rough couple of weeks,.When I get down, I turn to music, specifically I turn to older tunes that in the past picked me up.Below are some that are associated...
View ArticleInteresting: Video from the year you were born - 1969 anyone?
I was born in April of 1969.I know it was a time of great news and social upheavel.Of course, being awfully young at the time, I cannot say I remember much of the year, but I found on the youtube a...
View ArticleThe Present Never Looks as Good as it Will in the Future
Friends at the Daily Kos,I tend to become somewhat reflective as the New Year approaches. As such I am reminded of Peter Benchley, who wrote, “The past always seems better when you look back on it than...
View ArticleThe Hubble Telescope captures the oldest known image yet—13.4 billion years ago
An international team of astronomers have broken a distance record. A cosmic distance record. They were able to use the Hubble Space Telescope to see all the way back, 13.4 billion years ago, and...
View ArticleThe 1950's Reframed
The picket fenced yards with their majestic Elms — no litter in the streets. June, clad in heals and accessorized with a pristine white apron and pearl necklace. Cookies a baking, and of course...
View ArticleThe year was 1969...
xYouTube VideoNixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).Nixon started "Vietnamization" in Southeast Asia. The United States, USSR, and about 100 other countries sign the nuclear...
View ArticleGet to know one another: Post 1 silly little known fact about yourself.
Usually I ask a question of the night, I already asked tonight’s question here about drinking bottled water, yay or nay.But I am an insomniac, so I thought I would write a second diary tonight to tend...
View ArticleLet me explain about martinis
Many years ago, when I was but a girl, I learned the word hummus. I learned this word from a fellow student at my college, a young Lebanese woman, in the early days of the Lebanese Civil War. (That’s...
View ArticleGiven a choice would you like to have lived in the past, live in the present,...
For some the idea of living in the past produces a sense of wonder… getting to see first-hand the advances made in society, perhaps meeting some great leader or person from the past...exploring life as...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleThe Question of Reparations
I hesitate to bring up this topic. Not because I am afraid what the response may be, though that is a concern, but rather because I have a feeling people will willingly misconstrue what I am going to...
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A Day on the Tennis Court That Will Live in Infamy
What a chode! President Trump is having trouble in Michigan. He’s the ‘Al Bundy’ (Ed O’Neill’s role on ‘Married With Children) of politics, in the sense that he insults people and is oblivious as to...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/11 Edition: Back to the Future!
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”That quote, or something like it has been attributed to the writer George Santayana, and while it remains true as a general principle, it...
View ArticleWhat was known, and what we've learned
What We KnewI was born in 1964. I am not old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis or the JFK or RFK assassinations. When I came to awareness of such things the largest nuclear weapon that...
View Article4th of July in the movies
I got to thinking about how we tell the story of the U.S. as seen in movies (fiction, not documentaries). For instance, about the founding there’s this from 1776:xxYouTube VideoAnd The Schuyler...
View ArticleDo you believe in karma? If so 2 questions.
Sorry for the shortness of the diary as I am witing this from my phone in the hospital. Also I admit .y ignorance on the topic and that's why I am writing this...to gain knowledgeIt hit me the other...
View ArticleThe last time you did something do you recall what that something was &...
Thanks to a discussion in an earlier diary tonight Mercy Omont suggested a great question for me to ask. Please check out the whole diary here,by mcGovern78We all have engaged in behaviors in the past...
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