Poll: How Folks Reacted To Eastwood Chrysler Ad
The commercial that actor Clint Eastwood made for the Chrysler corporation, shown during Sunday night's Super Bowl broadcast, has ended up causing quite a stir. On this site, a lot of folks got really...
View ArticleSorry Gals, It Just Ain't Your Womb
Seems there's been a real hissy fit from the estrogen lobby lately over breast cancer and Planned Parenthood and contraception. Now, as much as it amuses us men to see you put your mind to issues...
View ArticleTell Us About Your Favorite Teacher
I never thought I'd live to see the day that schoolteachers were regularly vilified. Pilloried for having pensions. Excoriated for having the hubris to negotiate the terms of their employment and...
View ArticleGingrich Made Limbaugh Member Of Congress!
Somebody needs to ask former Speaker Of The House and current candidate for the GOP's presidential nomination Newt Gingrich if he disowns the recent comments of Rush Limbaugh regarding women who use...
View ArticlePoll: Which Doctor Who Villain Is Mitt?
The night of the Olympic opening ceremonies I posted a comment regarding the absence from the ceremonies of one of England’s most iconic pop culture figures, specifically Doctor Who. It...
View ArticleDems Nix Tom Hanks Conv. Appearance
BREAKING: Organizers for next week's Democratic Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina briefly considered, then later rejected plans to have actor Tom Hanks provide a counterpoint to Clint...
View Article40 Years Ago Today. The Andes Plane Crash
Forty years ago today, Friday, October 13, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild turboprop chartered by the Stella Maris school’s alumni rugby team was crossing the Argentine portion of the...
View ArticleDon't Be Fooled, FOX Is Happy
That's right, the friendly folks at FoxNews are happy with the results of last Tuesday's election. Everyone from Grand Poo-Bah Roger Ailes down through Hannity, O'Reilly, Britt Hume, and the...
View ArticleLeave Your Keys In Your Car
That’s right, just leave your keys in your car the next time you park. Leave the doors unlocked too. In fact, just leave the car running. Or, if you don’t want to waste gas, turn the car...
View ArticleBarack Obama Proves Corporations Aren't People
From the New York Times (Emphasis mine) ...the administration on Tuesday abruptly announced a one-year delay, until 2015, in his health care law’s mandate that larger employers provide coverage for...
View ArticleMedical Crisis, Need DK Community Advice, Please!
I apologize for this diary, but I have never been this frightened in my life. I value this community and know that there is a great deal of knowledge within its members, as well as kindness. A...
View ArticleUpdate: Even Sicker, Was It The Moldy Yogurt?
Some of you may have seen my diary from a few days ago about the onset, two weeks ago today, of a strange weakness in my arms and legs, accompanied by pain and deterioration of fine motor...
View ArticleObamacare Can't Come Soon Enough For Me
Some of you may have read my diary of September 2nd http://www.dailykos.com/... in which I detailed an ongoing health crisis and my efforts as an uninsured American to receive proper medical...
View ArticleFish Fingers And Custard
Jelly Babies Allons-y I've reversed the polarity of the neutron flow Lapel celery Bow ties are cool Mmm, what's that, my boy? Venusian Karate Recorders Bessie Don't blink Behind the sofa Sonic...
View ArticleRest In Peace, Ray Price
Country music legend Ray Price has died at the age of 87 following a two year long battle with pancreatic cancer. Price's exquisite phrasing made him not only one of the best singers in country music,...
View ArticleTell Walgreen's What You Think Of Their "Citizenship"
If you live in the USA there's a good chance you live within spitting distance of one of Walgreen's 8,000 plus stores. Walgreen's, a 113 year old Chicago (now suburban Chicago) based...
View ArticleJoe Walsh Defends Clive Bundy
Apparently not all the wing nut pundits are furiously distancing themselves from the racist freeloader Cliven Bundy. Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, who in true wing nut style parlayed his one...
View ArticleLosing The Family Homestead
I've written before about my parents, and the house my Dad designed and built shortly after WWII in farmland west of Chicago. I've also written about the seven years I spent caring for my Mom after my...
View ArticleMy Mystery Affliction, One Year Later
Early last September I published this diary, detailing the mysterious affliction that had beset me a week and a half earlier and my efforts to receive medical care as an uninsured individual in pre...
View ArticleWake The Kids! Phone The Neighbors!
Tonight the great Darlene Love, accompanied by Paul Shaffer and the band, a string section, some French horns, some terrific backup singers, and a guy on sleigh bells will perform "Christmas (Baby...
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