http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 10:03:40 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:03:40 ...while, all along the top of the picture, there are dozens of people with cameras taking pictures of what his colleagues are doing, and probably hundreds of those images were somewhere on the web before the arrest was over.

This is what the people who are giving these orders have failed to gras... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/223 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:40:06 Driving home yesterday I heard--alas, several times--a CBS TV ad parodying the Occupy movement. Stirring patriotic music, rhetoric about freedom, exhortation to stand up for your rights as an American and "occupy your couch" while watching CBS's evening lineup.

Congratulations, OWS! You have reac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/222 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:34:51 That's about all I've got this morning. We had a good run; but we've definitively lost our economic dominance, which means a shitload more in today's brave new world than military dominance ever will. Domestically, our economy will probably remain a shambles for some time to come.

I'm so glad we... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/221 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:11 Is this constitutional?

It seems unconstitutional to me. But I am not a lawyer.

The Plaid Adder... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/220 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:58:23 Since crazy is apparently what gets things done in Washington.

It is a simple enough principle. Everyone who has raised a small child learns it. When the charming and lovable but undeniably also unreasonable and immature being in your care throws a tantrum, you do not, under any circumstances, gi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/219 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:38:02 I mean, not that more damage can't be done. Certainly it's better for everyone involved (except these Tea Party idiots, but anyway) if we can avoid defaulting. My personal hope is that the Aug 2 deadline is fake and that in fact if we pass it it will turn out that we have another couple weeks before... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/218 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:07:49 I get it that the lying is the real problem. That actually is the part that breaks my heart for all y'all who were out there proving he'd been framed. I was perfectly ready to believe that, but I guess it doesn't surprise me that it turned out not to be true.

I don't personally understand what ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/217 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:26:53 extramarital sex. Right?

I know this whole thing must be intensely frustrating for many of you because I saw you all working so hard to prove that Weiner was telling the truth and his Twitter account had been hacked. And now all of a sudden, whoops, turns out that really was him.

And I thought... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/216 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:23:34 I've been thinking about this, because when I heard they had buried him at sea, my first thought was, "Oh shit, the birthers will go nuts."

But then I thought, you know what, there is no way for any of us to 'prove' any of this to ourselves. Even if they had put him in a mausoleum, how would we k... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/215 Tue, 03 May 2011 10:13:48 When we heard about the announcement we were sure that it wasn't going to be good news. My partner's first speculation was that maybe poor Joe Biden had had a heart attack. I'm glad it was leaked early, because if I'd had to sit and watch the NBC News crew blather and speculate for an hour the stres... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/214 Mon, 02 May 2011 00:13:30 So DU has been around for 10 years now. God damn we are getting old.

I haven't been here since the *very* beginning; the earliest thing of mine that I can find that was posted here was from July of 2001. At first, I didn't spend much time in the forums; I saw DU as an outlet for all the writing I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/213 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:14:05 At the beginning of Terry Gilliam's film [i]The Fisher King[/i], a radio "shock jock" named Jack (and more or less modeled on then-celebrity Howard Stern) takes a call from a guy who complains that a woman he's fascinated by is ignoring him. After leading the caller on to ever crazier expressions of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/212 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:07:01 And these words are:

AT LAST.

OK, that was only two words. Here are some more:

This is the end--AT LAST!--of a process launched in 1993 within months after Clinton took office. Even back then I could not believe anyone could stand up and say with a straight face the crap that Sam Nunn and a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/211 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:23:19 More than ten years ago, I pulled into a Chevron station to fill up. A guy who worked there spotted my "Boycott Shell" bumpersticker and asked me about it.

I gave him the shortest explanation I could craft. It's a complicated story. The catalyzing incident for the boycott of Shell was the execut... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/210 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:09:37 It has everything--including sousaphones!

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/05/11/going-gaga-over-workers-rights/

Next time someone tells you the left doesn't have a sense of humor, send 'em that link. Make sure to watch it all the way through, where they list all the hotels involved in the boycott.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/209 Thu, 13 May 2010 13:58:52 This morning, my wife was taking the fat envelopes I'm mailing off to the federal and state revenue services today, and my daughter PJ saw them. She said, "Is that a present for me?"

I said, "No, sweetie, it's a present for the government."

We started trying to explain, in a way a 2 and 3/4 ye... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/207 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:06:47 So I hear from Yahoo! news that Newt Gingrich has informed us all that Obama is the "most radical president ever" and the mastermind of a "secular, socialist machine."

(I will pause while the Critique From The Left contingent convulses with bitter ironic laughter.)

You know what, Newt? STFU. Y... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/206 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:52:44 I kind of gave up writing abotu the war after Bush exited. But I guess since Obama is now determined to plow millions of dollars and thousdands of lives into "finishing the job," there are still some things that need to be said:

This kind of job cannot be "finished." It can only be abandoned. A n... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/205 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:11:16 I heard about Fort Hood this morning on the radio. One thinks first, of course, about how horrible this is for the victims, for the families of the shooter and the killed and wounded alike. I know there are people here who have family in the military who might be at Fort Hood right now and I am hopi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/204 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:42:44 Some of you may remember that a couple months ago, after the Department of Justice filed that brief defending DOMA, I sent Obama a letter about that with a picture of our family, and [a href="http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid%20Adder/200"]encouraged others to do the same.[/a] After a w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/203 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:09:03 So, I wake up to the sound of NPR telling me that Obama just won a Nobel Peace Prize. My first thought was, "Damn, that was quick."

The morning goes along, I wonder why they would give it to him so early, blah de blah, then I get online and because AT&T is my ISP, to get to my email I have to loo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/202 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:15:49 I've now been inactive here for so long that most of you have probably forgotten who I am. The birth of our daughter back in the summer of 2007 led to a drastic decline in the amount of free time I had to piss away on the internet, and then I sort of went on sabbatical from politics after Obama's in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/201 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:20:41 I encourage others who are affected by the Defense of Marriage Act to do the same. I figure it might help make more of an impact if they can see who they're hurting.

Note that on the White House official site, they explicitly ask that you NOT send "personal items such as family photographs" becau... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/200 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:47:28 I doubt that the DOJ guys who wrote that brief were intentionally dredging up the most inflammatory language they could find. I think the "language" Dean was complaining about can be explained by something very simple:

The point of the brief was to defend DOMA. There is no way to defend DOMA with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/199 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:04:27 You all haven't seen much of me since the election. Nobody online has. Since PJ's birth, my internet life is one thing that has had to be cut back. Along with that, I have been spending a lot less time talking about politics to people, except to participate in other people's conversations about how ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Plaid Adder/198 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:30:35