The Manipulation Of Melancholy
If the events of 2012 haven't already left you utterly despondent, take heart. There's still time for our annual descent into the darkest depths of melancholy. While we grope in the darkness of short...
View ArticleMore [Limerick] Reasons To Say "Good Riddance, 2012"
[although 2013's not lookin' so hot either...]Mayan forecasts of doom were a bust Where's a prophecy people can trust? If the world's gonna end We will have to depend On some accurate facts! That's a...
View ArticleDinosaur Extinction Update: Fiscal Fossil Follies!!
A new day dawns, and the Earth shifts beneath their feet of the already uneasy GOPasaurs. The Grim Reaper has been working overtime to keep up with the carnage, and it's not over yet, not by a long...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope - Poems From The Left: Live, On-Demand Limerick Challenge!
Welcome to Indigo Kalliope's Limerick Challenge, a cozy artistic alcove tucked away from the more serious side of Daily Kos. Today, we're reducing some of the events of the past week to easily...
View ArticleCorporate Life In The Rearview Mirror: Knowledge Costs Money; Ignorance Is Free
In reading this excellent diary by pat of butter in a sea of grits, I wanted to expand on this comment that I posted:Beyond the copyright issues, it's extremely (2+ / 0-) unfortunate that so much...
View ArticleExtinction Update: The Dinosaurs Of Downton Abbey
Given your intrepid diarist’s obsession with the extinction of lumbering organisms who have outlived their usefulness, it was only a matter of time before she was drawn into the hypnotic vortex of...
View ArticleGOPasaur Extinction Update: Griftasaurus Karlroveii
As reported in the New York Times and other reputable sources - and widely mocked elsewhere - Griftasaurus Karlroveii has concocted yet another plan to stave off extinction... or at least make some...
View ArticleYahoo CEO To Employees: Get Your [Body] Into The Office
Well, happy Monday morning, Yahoo employees. Looks like your telecommuting days have come to an end.Silicon Valley firms are known for cushy perks: free food, bringing your dog to work and so on. But...
View ArticleEntirely Preventable Workplace Fatalities
When the monsignor shows up at your door early on a Saturday morning along with an Army officer, bad news is sure to follow. So it was that my former mother-in-law learned of the accidental...
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Extinction Update: Brontosaurus Romneii (The Song Has Ended But The Malady...
Seismometers across the continental plate reverberated as previously-thought-to-be-extinct Onepercentasaur Brontosaurus romneii emerged from one of his well-appointed caves to grace the world...
View ArticleThe Sheer Brilliance Of Thankless Tasks
When I look back on what passes for success in my 60-year-old life, one ability seems to pervade my faded tapestry of achievements: the ability to write on a deadline. I learned this valuable skill as...
View ArticleHelp Needed: Clearing Up Obamacare Myths
They are myths, aren't they?I just got off the phone with a long-time client, someone I've worked for and known personally for 19 years. I never knew much about her politics, but my ears are still...
View ArticleGOPasaur Extinction Update: CPAC Fossil Follies!
GOPasaurs and GOPasaur wannabees, journalists, lobbyists, and hookers were joined by paleontologists at the Cretaceous Political Animal Circus (CPAC), proving once again that politics makes very, very...
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GOPasaur Extinction Update: Rewriting The Fossil Record
Actually, the GOP version is only about 6,000 yearsIt's not easy being green a GOPasaur. All signs points to their individual and collective...
View ArticleContempt Of Congress: Your Poetical, Alphabetical Summary Of Grievances
With Congressional job approval hovering at a pathetic 13%, our illustrious legislators are ready to sink to the next level with a planned in-your-face filibuster. As a result, many Americans are...
View ArticleTaking Charge Of Your Safety: Practical Measures You Can Implement Today
As we continue to try to come to terms with the bombings in Boston and the other suggestions of ongoing terrorism, there are practical things that you can do right now to empower yourself and your...
View ArticleCorporate Life In The Rearview Mirror: We Shall Not Excel
As reported by the BBC,... two Harvard economists admitted a faulty spreadsheet calculation caused errors in a study used by numerous politicians to support their austerity policies. Oh, well. It's...
View ArticleDinosaur Extinction Update: Fossil Fuels And Fossil Fuelishness
Darwin continues to knock himself senseless with facepalms as witless GOPasaurs continue roaming the landscape. Neither natural selection nor any other laws of biology, chemistry, physics, geology, or...
View ArticleCorporate Life In The Rearview Mirror: Mergers & Hackquisitions
Chances are, if you've spent any time in Corporate America, your company has either been acquired, acquired another firm, or been part of a merger. Like a shark that must propel itself through the...
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State Hate: Springtime Storms And Schadenfreude
As lightning splits the night sky, and springtime tornados, thunderstorms, hail storms, wildfires, floods and other disasters descend upon us, we're fortunate here in the Great Orange...
View ArticleBefore Disaster Strikes: Ten Practical Suggestions You Can Implement TODAY
As we continue to understand the enormity of the tornado devastation, there are practical things that you can do right now to empower yourself and your loved ones. In addition to protecting your...
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Special Dinosaur Extinction Update: The Suspicious Farewell Of Archeopteryx...
"Repeal Obamacare!! Repeal Obamacare!!" Benghazi!! Islamic Jihad!While craven Cretaceous GOPasaurs still walk the Earth eluding their long-overdue extinction, the Grim...
View ArticleDinosaur Extinction Update: The Tiresome Laments Of Dressageasaurus Cruella
Quickly backfilling the immense intellectual void left by the departing Michele Bachmann, today's insipid comments are brought to you by Ann Romney. Evidently she's still smarting from the fact that...
View ArticleStifling Job Creation: GOP's Next Move
My stepson graduated college debt free. My husband and I had to borrow to put him through school, but our aim was that he be able to start his post-educational life with a clean slate.After working in...
View ArticleKos Was Right, I Was Wrong: 10 Very Cool Things I've Discovered About Twitter
In the May 24th"Ask me anything about anything... If you dare!" diary, Kos noted:Before we get started, I have something to ask you guys -- please stop shitting on people doing activism on Facebook,...
View ArticleMegachurch Marketing Machinations
Megachurches in Texas are big business... just not big enough, apparently. Twice this week, while trying to enjoy breakfast at a local restaurant, I've overheard animated conversations at an adjacent...
View ArticleCorporate Life In The Rearview Mirror: "A Few Rough Edges"
It's been about a year since my 30+ year career in corporate America ended with the Walk of Shame out to the parking garage after a layoff at age 59. One thing that continues to amaze me: the many...
View ArticleHey, Paula: It's Not About The Racism
There's something morbidly fascinating about a brand meltdown, especially one that's entirely self-inflicted. We watch, chowing down on a big ol' plate of schadenfreude, as Paula Deen's food empire...
View ArticleState Hate: Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio... Your State's Next!
The verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has already evoked calls for boycotting Florida. Any state where an unarmed young black man can be gunned down by an armed wannabe-cop assailant is not a place...
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Next Up: Texas In The Rearview Mirror
The time has come to pack the moving van and leave the Lone Star State far, far behind. After six years of living here as a transplanted New Englander, it's time to make the move to a state that's even...
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Next Stop, North Carolina: No Turning Back!
Yesterday, I posted this diary reflecting upon my six years in Texas and my upcoming move to North Carolina. While hatin' on Texas is an evolved art form for some here, I was quite moved by the many...
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GOPasaur Extinction Update: Tar Pits Of Doom, Here We Come!
In what can only be described as the Full Employment Act For Paleo-Pundits, throngs of craven Cretaceous creatures are literally stumbling over one another in their haste to fling themselves off the...
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Gimme [A Dog From The] Shelter: The Chronicles Of Logan
As promised, I've moved from Texas to North Carolina, and the first order of business was adding a dog to our two-person pack. I've had several gently-used dogs in the past. One was adopted full-grown...
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Gimme [A Dog From The] Shelter: The Commercialism Of Canine Care
Two weeks have elapsed, and our adopted shelter dog Logan is settling in nicely. He's getting more accustomed to being around the water, and his coat is morphing from a sandy off-white "shelter...
View ArticleA Gun Violence Alphabet Of Tragedy
Since joining Twitter, I've done quite a few daily "alphabets" of Tweets on current events. Today's were about gun violence in general, the Navy Yard tragedy in particular. Someone suggested that I...
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Gimme [A Dog From The] Shelter: What The Tea Party Could Learn From My Dog
Watching Ted Cruz foaming at the mouth, it's clear that we need to do a better job of inoculating the Right-wing fringe. Running amok having slipped the collar of reality, they are humping the leg of...
View ArticleTea Party Extinction Update: Release The Velociraptors!!
Explanations abound for the mass extinctions of slow-witted lumbering beasts that once roamed the earth only to find their skeletons incorrectly reassembled in the natural history museums of the world....
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Gimme [A Dog From The] Shelter: More Lessons The Tea Party Could Learn From...
The Tea Party pack is still on the loose, yapping, foaming at the mouth, and sinking their fangs into the old, the young, the sick, the elderly and the poor. They've even turned on their own party,...
View ArticleGimme [A Dog From The] Shelter: No Bad Dogs, Only Bad [Tea Party] Owners
Observers of life - canine and human - can learn a lot at the dog park. Our dogs probably view this as a little piece of heaven where they can run free, finally disconnected from the leash and its...
View ArticleThe Bridge Over The River Hubris
As revelations of Chris Christie's "bridge-gate" mischief come to light, speculation abounds on whether this will harm his political career. Other diarists and commenters have offered their thoughts,...
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Gimme [A Dog From The] Shelter: Our Shredded Safety Net
When I settled in North Carolina this past summer, my first order of business was adopting a shelter dog. My husband and I found this gorgeous Lab mix at a no-kill shelter. He had spent most of his...
View ArticleHungering For Answers
This past Saturday was the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive event.Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and compassion...
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Dinosaur Extinction Update: Fossil Follies Special Edition!
Something's afoot in the land of GOPasaurs, those crass, craven creatures who rumble across the craton, roaring and wreaking havoc, stealing our resources, despoiling our environment, threatening the...
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Mesozoic Madness: Extinction Update!
As Darwin, sobbing, shreds his research papers, Republican reptiles rampage across our land, leaving in their wake the smoldering ruins of civil discourse. So alarming is this assault on our...
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Fossil Follies: Mass Extinction Update!
As a tsunami of Cretaceous carnage sweeps through over the craton, your intrepid diarist returns from Twitterlandia to the Great Orange Tar Pits with a real-time update on a mass...
View ArticleMesozoic Madness! The Return Of Griftasaurus Palinii!
In a shocking turn of evolutionary events, Griftasaurus palinii, considered banished to the ash heap of electoral relevance, has reappeared by the side of one Bloviasaurus trumpii. The latter, growing...
View ArticleExtinction Update
All creatures reach the end of their evolutionary journey, some suddenly, some over geologic time. If they’re clever, they can evade the Grim Reaper by evolving into something more suited to their...
View ArticleExtinction Update: Trump Implosion Apocalypse Edition!
When future paleontologists stumble upon the mass graves of late-Cretaceous GOPasaurs, they will discover the true cause of extinction. It won’t be asteroids, volcanoes, or disease. It will be...
View ArticleDinosaur Extinction Update: Back From The Brink Or Over The Cliff?
Mesozoic mayhem continues with the elevation of Bloviasaurus donaldii to the White Cave, a location now desecrated beyond the reach of modern decontamination methodologies. His random vocalizations and...
View ArticleBah, Humbug!
The season of excess is once more upon us. Thanksgiving and Christmas, occasions that evoked childhood delight, now loom as Scylla and Charybdis. Holiday expectations have reached epic proportions,...
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