http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:46:12 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:46:12 The verse: "Put to shame and confound all who seek to take my life. Turn back in disgrace those who desire my ruin."

Simple and elegant.

Of course, I don't think it should be offered on Cafe Press.

proactively,
Bright... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/148 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:21:33 ...was last Friday, actually. I was hurrying back across the Plaza to get to the hotel where a conference luncheon was being held. I'd run across to a bank that has an ATM to get some cash so I could get my car out of hock after the lunch.

I was walking quickly; it was a lovely day. The Plaza,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/147 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:43 Oh, yes it is.

They may not perceive it, it may not be conscious, but it's about race. And it's racism.

No, I'm not talking about any and all criticism of President Obama. It's perfectly legitimate to criticize the President, if you disagree with his actions or his expressed policies. And i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/146 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:32:23 What if: President Obama abandons the ‘public option’?

What if: The Progressive Caucus puts up a fight for the ‘public option’, but eventually gets outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and outvoted?

What if: All of the various Democratic HCR bills stall out, get watered down, and we end up with prac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/145 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:37:38 I only recommended once because that's all the software allows. But I WOULD recommend H2O Man's post many times if I could.

Exactly.

They WANT us to feel helpless, hopeless, discouraged, angry and futile. They know that until we feel the power within ourselves, and begin to ACT upon it, we w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/144 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:26:42 And how do you know you have it?

Seriously.

I'm getting more than a little curious about the people who are worried about protecting their "good insurance."

Because I know a lot of people who have insurance. And not one of them has "good" insurance.

"Good" insurance doesn't cost more pe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/143 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:06:09 I will defend to the death anyone's right to make hateful remarks, and I will defend to the death the rights of a free press to cover those hateful remarks.

BUT

I think it is time that we had a national discussion about the COST of such self-expression, and whether we wish to promote other for... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/142 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:45:53 I think that we are going to get health care reform within the next eighteen months.

I think it will not please everyone who wants nothing less than a single-payer, government-based, universal coverage health system.

I think it will be a fairly messy, cobbled-together bill with a number of ite... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/141 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:24:34 [i]a prose poem(?)[/i]

Because Persia is very old, Neda. Persians have seen the sands of history fall past Zoroaster and Alexander and Ahura Mazda.

Long before the alleged Messiah of the Hebrews was allegedly ratted out to the Romans for various acts of civil disobedience, the laws of the Med... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/140 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:28:05 What do these two things have in common?

Well, here's the deal. How many times have black men who've suffered the indignities (or worse!) of DWB episodes heard something like this:

[i]"Of course it's not [u]right[/u]. But it happens. Deal with it appropriately. Be respectful of the officer... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/139 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:44:47 On July 26, 1990, the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed.

And the world ended, obviously.

It ended because all of America's small businesses would have to build ramps and they couldn't afford it and it would put them out of business!

It ended because every podunk local jurisdiction ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/138 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:52:46 A man walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, because it is full of "liberals."

A man walks into a police station and opens fire, because 'they might take my guns.'

A man walks into a Church and shoots a doctor he believes is a "baby killer."

A man walks into a museum dedicated to the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/137 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:46:29 Anyone who's ever seen [u]Little Shop of Horrors[/u] knows when Seymour Krelborn made his first mistake.

Seymour just wants to be loved by Audrey, a blond with a good heart and a very tacky fashion sense, and bag some economic success.

So when he happens upon a sinister but appealing little pl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/136 Mon, 25 May 2009 10:48:44 Yes, that's right, TAX CUTS!!

And to prevent future outbreaks, the guaranteed solution? Eliminate at least three major federal administrative divisions-- say (for example,) the EPA, the Dept. of Agriculture, and, uh... lessee... Yeah! The Bureau of Land Management!! That'll do it, definitely... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/135 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:24:05 I would probably be really enjoying myself today.

I just watched some videos of the various Tea Party events that were held at various locations yesterday.

Now, IF I were a mean person, the kind of wicked sadist who delights in deliberately escalating and augmenting the paranoia of the poorly-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/134 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:47:26 [i](This is a repost of a response I posted in another thread, and then realized it was so damn' good and so well-thought-out and I'm such dang hot stuff that it should be its own damn' post and in my Journal, so there.)[/i]


Well, I've done some research.

The Tea Party thing.

First ment... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/133 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:44:18 Evolution (or the Creator, if you wish) has given human beings binocular vision. This is important. It means that we can drive cars at speeds in excess of three or four miles per hour without smashing into things. It means that we can throw things with a reasonable hope of accuracy-- everything f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/132 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:59:34 My husband and I were having a conversation the other day, and he said something that went right by me at the time, but it's been haunting me ever since. I think it might be a big part of What's Wrong with the economy-- and hence, it might offer an interesting clue on a direction for change.

My ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/131 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:58:39 I want to juxtapose two apparently conflicting positions:

[u][b]Position One: I am a strong support of President-Elect Obama[/b][/u]
He has shown intelligence, amazing leadership capability, a preternaturally shrewd grasp of the realities of national politics, and colossal determination to brin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/130 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:10:29 I don't know if this would work, Constitutionally. Perhaps some of the more savvy legal minds around here can comment on that. But here's my idea:

Bush is making hundreds of last-minute rule changes, changes that have the potential to damage and delay many of Obama's planned initiatives to resc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/129 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:02:10 I just realized that I'm smarter than I think I am. And those who know me well will have to pick their jaws up off the floor, because they know how smart I think I am. Hell, think? Call it a clear-eyed, cold-steel assessment of things-as-they-are. I KNOW I'm bloody well smart. So... Smarter th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/128 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:19:04 There is something highly significant about the emergence of body weight, attitudes about weight, the science and conventional wisdom of weight management, etc. as the topic [i]du jour[/i] (or [i]du[/i] weekend?) on DU. It is clearly laden with emotional baggage for a great many of us. Maybe it's ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/127 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:41:14 >>[i]The reason for that is clear. Almost everyone has a great need to think of him or herself as a good person. Slavery was a brutal system that dehumanized its victims. How can a person think of himself as a good person when he brutalizes and dehumanizes other people for economic gain? The only wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/126 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:24:43 ...in the issues and ideals.

You convey the sense of wonder and joy at the feelings of inadequacy, etc. rising up and going away, very eloquently. I think many people have experienced something similar when they've overcome a challenge or surmounted a great obstacle.

Please believe this: I w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/125 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:37:56 I really think that the vile and bigoted ballot measures passed denying civil rights to gay people in several states are the beginning of the end.

Yes, I really believe that, ultimately, states allowing this crap to be pulled are paving the way to a national civil rights act that will include gen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TygrBright/124 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:32:28