http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:18:05 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:18:05 Might I suggest a few more funny things to our conservative friends?

The Punic Wars: critics agreed this was the funniest work to date, though some later critics say the ending is a bit salty.

The Holy Land Crusades: a classic whose comedic influence can still be felt today

The Albigensian ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/10 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:41:18 It requires destructive testing even of one-of-a-kind artisan made toys (and afaik, no one has ever caught your average American woodworker coating their toys with lead -- it's the big guys and their imported sweatshop crap that is the issue). As written, it is no longer legal for any artisan in Ame... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/9 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:25:55 Few are content. Virtually everything complained about here is complained about [i]everywhere[/i] in America, though not necessarily using the same terminology and not necessarily with the same detailed knowledge and not necessarily crediting the same party as potential savior or great betrayer.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/8 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:44:34 My Valentine's Day ran more or less like this:

I woke up and immediately understood that to have postponed doing something about my deteriorating asthma in order to first deal with a broken tooth had not been the right decision (I was blowing in the yellow zone on my peak flow meter and getting b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/7 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:59:45 with the election of a man determined to turn the country into a dystopia of unrestrained capitalism. You can't harvest a depression without the growing season of greed.

But yeah. Tonight Bush guaranteed his spot as the one president worse than James Buchanan. The Republicans are probably doomed ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/6 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:59:59 Uneducated does not mean clueless. "Joe Six Pack" is not so clueless that he will believe anyone who walks up to him and says "I'm Joe Six Pack too".

"Joe Six-Pack" is a very suspicious demographic. Joe Six-Pack is all ears for signs of phoniness. Joe Six-Pack would have noticed the forced and st... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/4 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:34:22 I've studied propaganda. That's why I'm not torn.

Hate radio is a clear and present danger to our democracy. I do not equivocate on that in the least. It would be nice to believe that humans are rational actors, or perhaps will be if only they put a little more effort into it.

But the ideal of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/5 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:50:48 and the public finds them interesting, or at least would [i]if[/i] the issues were covered half as well as Britney Spears' panties.

It's become either: a self-fulfilling prophesy where there is no coverage of important matters therefore people who aren't news junkies don't hear of them and their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/3 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:01:39 you can imagine a reverse scenario where a president elected as a progressive goes off the far deep end, and many liberals cling to him or her almost to the bitter end.

Imagine, say, that "President Ofthwall" decides that the US has a racism problem that needs to be addressed (oh so very correct)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/2 Fri, 12 May 2006 14:00:45 I started my morning by examining some of the recent polls. And what of course stood out was the unusual degree of support that he still has among the self-identified Republican base.

Of course that figure is contaminated in that it does not reflect the many of us who deserted the party over Bush... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Oak2004/1 Wed, 03 May 2006 17:20:50