You make me feel, you make me feel, you make me feel…
…like your emotional piano. (h/t Carole King)I am completely at your mercy, in your power to put your emotions inside me. Just hit one of my keys, and your emotion resonates through me like a bad...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Home Repair 7.25
Good morning. The Shop is open and I've got some coffee going. 7am here on the high desert east of Santa Fe and it's first light outside. I'll be your host this morning, taking this opportunity to...
View ArticleLives in the Balance
Fortunately, this song keeps coming back to me, just when I have forgotten about it. It is as true today as it was when Jackson Browne wrote and performed it. Needless to say, it did not get much,...
View ArticleSarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit, and the person who...
I wish I had invented this word, but I have to share it. This whole list of words came in the email from an old friend, and I'm not sure where it originated. Many of these words cry out for usage...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Daily Kos, and to me.
Today is the 11th birthday anniversary of Daily Kos, founded May 26, 2002.It is also my 68th birthday, which I also share with John Wayne.I want to thank Marcos for Daily Kos and all it has done for...
View ArticleRio Arriba County, NM, sending Kossak to NN13
Back on May 29, New Mexico Watchdog was the first to reveal that in a 3-0 vote, Rio Arriba County commissioners approved out-of-town travel expenses for Lauren Reichelt, the county’s director for...
View ArticleCalling out New Mexico Kossaks
UPDATE: This thread will continue hereCalling all New Mexico Kossaks! It has been years since we all had a meet-up, despite our organization being one of the earliest of the State-level Kossak...
View ArticleCalling out to New Mexico Kossaks
UPDATE 2We have doubled the membership list of NMKossaks! And more keep coming. Tomorrow I shall propose a venue for the Albuquerque area.Thanks all.UPDATE: I'm re-posting this in order to get enough...
View Articlegroup messaging question?
Is there a way for all members of a group to receive a message? Is there something on the group page I am missing that lets a group admin (or other) send out a group message?Thanks for any help on this
View Article"Trusted" User question
Would you trust a user who has posted 9 comments in the 20 months of their membership, 7 of which received mojo, has rated 12 comments, and who has posted no diaries?Somehow I don't think "trusted...
View ArticleNew Mexico Kossaks meet-up!
I am calling out a time and place to meet, as we discussed. 40 Kossaks are on our NM list, more than doubling the roll after my diaries on Saturday and Sunday, although some live too far to get to...
View ArticleNew Mexico Kossaks meet up Sunday!
UPDATE: continued from yesterdayI am calling out a time and place to meet, as we discussed. 40 Kossaks are on our NM list, more than doubling the roll after my diaries on Saturday and Sunday,...
View ArticleThe Frog Who Crushed The Planet
Did a French Yuppie really create the Finance Crisis?You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a...
View ArticleLast Call for NM Kossaks Meet Up
One last outshout for the New Mexico Kossaks meeting.2 pm Sunday, July 28, 2013.Kelly's Brew Pub 3222 Central SE Albuquerque, New Mexico(SW corner of Central and Wellesley, between Girard and...
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New Mexico Kossaks Meet.
A contingent of New Mexico-based Kogs met Sunday in Albuquerque at Kelly's Brew Pub. Housed in a renovated auto dealership building dating back to the early days of the Mother Road (Route 66), Kelly's...
View ArticleHow is that Chromebook working out for you?
Seeking info. I have been offered a new Chromebook of my choice, so I am studying up on what this thingie is.I get it about Linux and open-source, and I understand the cloud concept of storing...
View ArticleMan with a gun? Call 911. (updated)
Short and sweet.Silence is complicity, so if you have a problem with guns being displayed in public, call the police when you see it happening.I await the many comments explaining why this is a...
View ArticleJeez Kossaks, don't miss this diary:
Serious scholarship presenting unpleasant truth:A-White-Son-Of-Ferguson-On-Why-St-Louis-Can-t-Change
View ArticleA Modest Suggestion for Avoiding Conflict in Primary Candidate Stories
Experienced users already know this, although many appear to have forgotten it lately; it is very old wisdom from the earliest days of internet and even pre-internet conversation venues such as use-net...
View ArticleTired of the endless DCCC fundraising emails? Xochitl for NM2!
Me too. So I replied to Nancy’s email:Rep. Pelosi:I sent 50 bucks this past week directly to Xochitl Torres Small, running to turn the last Red CD in NM Blue. The odious Steve Pearce wants to be...
View ArticleSen Warren has NO co-sponsors for her ACA?
Senator Warren has NO co-sponsors for her two bills?Not one Democratic Senator stands with her?WTF? Must be too Progressive or something for what we are daily assured is the most “Progressive”...
View ArticleBREAKING: Udall announces his retirement
He won’t run in 2020.I just received this email from him:Claude,I want you to hear it first from me that I’ve decided not to run for re-election next year.As one of my strongest supporters, I wanted to...
View ArticleOnly rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse: George Monbiot
A much-needed dose of reality from (of course) The Guardian. In essence:The political class, as anyone who has followed its progress over the past three years can surely now see, is chaotic, unwilling...
View ArticleValerie Plame comes out swinging on war.
Plame is, of course, the same CIA spy (working on nuke non-proliferation issues) whose cover was treasonously burned by the Shrub Club Boyz a ways back, is running for the open seat of New Mexico’s...
View ArticleHappy Birthday! to Daily Kos, and to me.
DKos began on May 26, 2002. I started a bit earlier…I am having a slice of the world’s best chocolate birthday cake for breakfast; wish I could share it with all of you…Thanks to all for tolerating...
View ArticleNational Mall Webcams? Can you find one that's live now?
Silly wabbit, me. Got this idea to view the Mall from a webcam there.Used this search query: “National Mall Webcams”So I’m surprised at how few webcams there are listed for DC. Anybody have any info...
View Article"Mr. President, I've got a few scores to settle..." (updated)
Valerie Plame is running to succeed Ben Ray Lujan as my Representative for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District. She just released this video:xYouTube VideoThe ad speaks for itself. I’ve met her,...
View ArticleDon't like abortion? Don't have one. Don't like FaceBook?
Be sure to include a button that links to FB on every page of your favorite venue.Yes, I know: we have no choice in this matter here at DKos, and we are all experienced cynics and inured to the...
View ArticleI am impressed by our candidates.
I waited until now to sit through an entire debate, and I and partner have been here for the whole show, en-fucking-tranced by the quality of discourse. Really.I’ve been die-hard Bernie since forever,...
View ArticleB.O.H.I.C.A
Bend over. Here it comes again.Just a reminder for the youngins’ about how long this shit has been going on. When this song (rarely heard, I can’t imagine why) hit the airwaves in 1986, many of us...
View ArticleRoger Montoya for NM House District 40
I’d like to introduce you all to my brother-in-law Roger Montoya, who has just announced his candidacy as a Democrat for New Mexico House District 40.Roger is one of the most extraordinary people I...
View ArticlePower Outage; BRB
Running on the ups backup right now. Power out here at the edge of the Plains goes down fairly often, enough that it’s not remarkable. But tonight, in this end-of-the-world mood, who knows if it...
View ArticleThis is where the commies shine.
So an old friend living in Seattle emailed me this link of the exhausted and fresh off the plane from China Canadian epidemiologist sent with his team to study exactly what the Chinese Government has...
View ArticleWanna save the Post Office? Just say no.
Vote for the USPS with your dollars; simply don’t buy from an on-line retailer who will not deliver by USPS. You. Don’t. Need. It. That. Bad.Yes, buying stamps funds the USPS, which, BTW, the...
View ArticleGallup, NM under quarantine today. Riot Control Act invoked by Governor...
Follow the link to the Governor’s Emergency Order. I can’t copy or paste it out of FB, where I just saw it. Gallup is a major shopping town for the vast Navajo Res. and the Res is having a huge...
View Article"Flattening" the curve? It's getting steeper.
This is a clear visual. This link will take you to the now-familiar Johns, Hopkins U “Covid dashboard” website that has a bunch of graphs and other info. In the lower right corner I see the “graph...
View ArticleICYMI: Georgia National Guard dances the Macarena
Amazingly to me, this is from over a week ago (June 5, 2020) and I had not seen, nor heard a word about it. Searched here at DKos and nada, not that that means anything.Whatever. This will lift...
View ArticleConverting carbon dioxide and water to ethanol
Sure, sounds too good to be true. But it is the news from The Argonne National Laboratories, as given in the press release dated August 5, 2020. ANL does not sell snake oil, last I heard, being...
View ArticleAfter an incarcerated firefighter was nearly killed on the frontlines, CA...
Bounchan Keola is facing deportation to Laos, a country he left when he was four, after helping to fight this year’s historic wildfires.Seriously, Governor Newsom?Fuck you.The Guardian has the dismal...
View ArticleRoger Montoya wins NM State House seat, becoming first openly gay NM State Rep.
My BiL Roger Montoya won his election for NM House District 40 and has become the first openly gay State Representative in the NM Legislature. As a Democrat, of course.The Santa Fe Reporter has the...
View ArticleBREAKING: DC TO DEPLOY NATL GUARD
Sorry for this mess of a presentation..Major points from various sources:Guard will be unarmed and do traffic control and assist DC Police.Guns will not be permitted in the City. Presumably there...
View ArticleThe future is not negotiable.
The future is NOT negotiable.President Biden (and most of the not-insane American people) want and need the relief package he has proposed, and so does the future of American democracy, and, not at...
View ArticleUnusual "Unhoused" (homeless) service center in Oakland to be demolished by...
The Guardian:Tucked under a highway overpass in West Oakland, just beyond a graveyard of charred cars and dumped debris, lies an unexpected refuge.There’s a collection of beautiful, small structures...
View ArticleAnybody remember Tom Jones? (Updated)
Who? Yeah, vaguely from a long time ago in a different world. Now he’s 80, and he just put this out: (fasten your seat belt)xYouTube VideoWell, this non-diary just persists away, doesn’t it?...
View Article"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming"
So, when William Gibson recommends a book, I pay attention. And when it is remaindered on Amazon for 3 bucks (it was published in 2019) in my email, I check it out. When I see no mention of it...
View ArticleNEVER AGAIN: the Lincoln Project does it again. UPDATED with a response from...
A stunner for Holocaust Remembrance Day, narrated by my old friend Peter Coyote, a Jew himself, as are my two children.xYouTube Video
View ArticleHow Dems Can Punch Back on Inflation
Dan Pfieffer is a former chief advisor to President Obama. He has ideas about the inflation situation that really ought to be seriously looked into; ht to Digby for the linkThe best defense is a...
View ArticleThe Great Gate of Kiev
The Great Gate of KyivClassical Music as only the French can play it. The final movement of “Pictures at an Exhibition. part of the European Classic music heritage. Fitting to hear now. Crank up...
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