http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:13 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:13 If she becomes the NYS senator AND runs and wins in 2010, Caroline Kennedy will be our first female POTUS.

I'm going to show you a few things, and perhaps you will understand why women believed Hillary Clinton stood a better chance than anyone, ever before her, of becoming the first female POTUS:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/24 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:00:16 In 2004 there was an election year Democrats thought they were sure to win.

Late in the season, a story was breaking in the news that Democrats thought would totally put them (us) over the top. TANG.

George Bush's failure to show up for National Guard duty. The only problem was, there was no ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/22 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:22:00 My first thought upon hearing that John McCain chose under-investigation Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate was, "oh, they must really be trying to throw it."

That it's an obvious ploy to take advantage of the rift on the Democratic side makes it the more entertaining: McCain,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/21 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:45:27 Just when I was getting ready to write that I'd found a way to stop worrying and love Obama, along comes indication we'll all be expected to more or less have our brains out for the November election.

In response to the [i]New Yorker[/i] cover lampooning the far right's irrational propagandizing ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/20 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:35:08 That's what it appears to be.

Look, I have (had) little against Tim [link:makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/020109_Russert.htm |"integrity is for paupers"] Russert. He was a genial host and very watchable. He was also part of the bizarre clique of Heathers that was focused on taking down the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/19 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:31:04 thanks... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/18 Sun, 11 May 2008 11:19:53 Barack Obama's supporters' #1 reason for backing him, going back to January, is "he represents change." Rev. Jeremiah Wright's reappearance in the national media has given his former protege a chance to prove that, but instead we are seeing political campaigning as usual.

Last Friday night, Wrigh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/17 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:28:01 [link:ask.yahoo.com/20040518.html | the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the average annual wages in the U.S. as $36,764 for 2002. ]

[link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States | In 2006, the median annual household income was $48,201.00]

Thank goodness Charlie is there... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/16 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:26:27 [i]Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Monday disavowed a memo criticizing rival Hillary Rodham Clinton’s financial ties to India, blaming his campaign staff for a “dumb mistake.”

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The memo has created a furor in the Indian-American community and [b]raised questions about Obama’... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/14 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:14:31 This was written on the eve of the NH primary. Read this and you'll begin to understand the historic calls for Hillary to drop out of the race - that began the night of the Iowa caucus and continue now, even when there is a less than 10% gap between the amount of delegates she and BO have.


[i]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/15 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:48:42 Wasn't warrantless, by any chance, was it?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/13 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:22:19 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayintech_0104

[i]1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was to Edison's own direct current.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/12 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:02:05 My attitude on the subject has come a full 180 since receiving my first drivers' license, and yesterday's [link:www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16kidney-t.html | NY Times magazine essay by Sally Satel] is the greatest example I can think of that explains why.

You can call it a gift, and 25 ye... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/11 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:53:54 When did so many Democratic Underground users start putting on corsets and lace? When did we start covering our ankles and our wrists and bosoms? Democratic Underground, where 1/4 of a single forum is devoted to seeing what sexual references they can get across before the mods will kill a thread?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/10 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:52:26 Thirteen years ago, Molly appeared in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books.

I brought my copy of [i]Nothin' But Good Times Ahead[/i] to request an author's signature.

As I was standing in the fairly long line, one of her assistants passed out slips of paper to us all (and pencils wher... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/9 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:05:29 • The nature of military conflict and action: from post-Athens onward, monarchies put lands and nations in private ownership. Armies were raised by vassals who took oaths of loyalty to the land-owner - King - and in turn, paid their own armies, often with land grants or other titles. General populat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/8 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:17:12 Orchestrated? You betcha.

With the advent of the internet, everyone is free to research their little hearts out and find the true roots of the Christmas holiday: Saturnalia; Sol Invictus; Yule. All with pagan roots saluting the cessation of shorter days and longer nights. ie, [b]The Earth's death... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/7 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:12:19 $2 billion won't be enough.

They can pay as many people to write as many Bush-policy-friendly articles as they like, but nothing will ever hide America's distaste for this shrub of a president, once everyone saw what was behind the veil.

Bush will go down in history for successfully implementi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/6 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:37:59 It's tremendously saddening to see [i]some[/i] DU'ers reactions to Mark Foley's announcement that he was abused by a Catholic priest, and by the subsequent disclosure of said priest.

First there was disbelief on the part of some that it even happened. "Oh yeah, well name the guy," some said. So h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/4 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:32:22 Can I divert y'all's attention from the immigration issue and how it relates to living standards, and ask you to think about the post-1950s/1960s two-income households?

I've been watching people point fingers at various groups - immigrants, greedy corporations, Republicans cutting social programs... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/3 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:45:41 In regards to the proposal for AT&T and other providers charging website operators two tiers of bandwidth service: first, he believes that Google and others will refuse to pay. (I think he may be right - the model creates an exponential increase in bandwidth costs and computer geeks understand expon... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/2 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:39 "Give them enough rope to hang themselves."

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It's awful to have one's mourning (or anything else) disturbed by protesters, but when Phelps and his people show up at funerals, they are showing people exactly what kind of homophobic assholes they really are. Fred Phelps is our cointelpro.

2. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/1 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:33:27 Our political system and elections within it are the model of a finite game within an infinite game. In the infinite game, the daily governing, the daily wheeling and dealing that have continued for 200 years, the purpose of the players is to keep the game in play. Within that infinite game, the bus... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/5 Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:52:54 byline, Crisco :)

In the arts and entertainment world, the famous are those who allow us - the fans - the most room to project our feelings upon them, at the same time they project towards us.

For the average fan, what matters most is not so much what an artist might truly represent, but what... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Crisco/23 Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:20:56