http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 17:31:45 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:31:45 Lots of progressives sat on their hands in 2010, EXCEPT IN CALIFORNIA, where I live, and where stuff's getting better all the time.

So here we are, reaping the benefits of that poutrage, and DU is full of "Obama's A Traitor!" BULLSHIT today, and I'm just amazed.

You gave him less tools in ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/88 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:29:31 I thought today: I would like to give ten million dollars to Democratic Underground.

No strings. Maybe a share of stock, just so I could say I owned a little piece.

New servers, and bigger digs, and a secret fund for deserving DUers. Sounds good.

Yes. Someday I will do this thing. Bec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/87 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:58:46 Small business owner, here, twenty years, still sorta standing. United Healthcare just jacked up our rates 25%; this after about 300% increase over ten years with an incredible decrease in benefits. Usually it's a five percent a year increase, every year for the last few years. But I can't afford... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/86 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:15:14 Listening to yesterday's podcast -- a South Carolina veteran, 51, talked about unemployment. He broke down in tears. Randi was compassionate and patient, talking to him until he regained his composure. She asked for any listener who could offer employment to call in. It was gripping to hear.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/85 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:47:52 From the excellent and most progressive Devolution Band's lyric Wiggly World:


They say the fittest shall survive
Yet the unfit may live
Let 'em wear gaudy colors
Or avoid display
Hey it don't matter
It's all the same

So I do this and I do that
So I do this and I do that
So I do ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/84 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:45:11 A friend of mine, Bob, who owns a small business, just told me this story.

He has two employees, Nathan and Vera. Nathan imprints items that Vera assembles; both are long-term, hard-working, nearly irreplaceable employees. Nathan has always been a Republican, but recently has veered rightward ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/83 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:35:44 Brave little kid. Wonder where his parents are?

http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/johnny2.jpg

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/82 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:36:36 http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/johnny.jpg

Gotta love that little bellhop murderer...

Witness the mindfuck mastery.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/81 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:06:13 TruthIsAll brought me to DU. I followed him religiously, along with AutoRank. In 2005, the Election Reform Forum was front and center on this site.

Some may argue that the issue is dealt with. It is not. Not at all. The United States suffered an electoral coup in 2004, and the principal co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/80 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:13:04 I wrote a post last night on the film 'Idiocracy' that was deleted, and it's a good lesson for me. It was deleted from DU for my using the word ‘fag talk’ as it was used in the movie — I suddenly realized I had been too slick in my inference that the people of the future refer to any intelligent-sou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/79 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:15:24 I didn't believe it until I read the poem:

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun

Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolve

Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly

Then dirt ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/77 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:25:18 Sent to my Senators, Congresspeople, and the President:

[div class="excerpt"]Small business owner, here. Ten employees, twenty years in downtown Sacramento. We sell mostly outside the state and internationally. I just wanted to relay a few hard facts to you.

1) The SBA is broken and usel... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/76 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:22 http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/tsrobot.jpg

[link:www.byronscripts.com/RadicalRules/radicalrules.pdf|Radical Rules]

“Ryan Radic starts his first year in college by being dumped, humiliated, and kicked out of school for something he didn’t do. Hiding out in the physics department basement, he ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/75 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:34:36 A Republican operative named Martin Eisenstadt was hired by the McCain campaign, having heard of his bare-knuckles, no-holds-barred success with other campaigns.

As the campaign wore on, CNN, the LA Times, and many other news outlets, especially Fox, began quoting an ‘unnamed McCain adviser’ who... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/74 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:22:31 The original sorryeverybody.com let people post photos of themselves with signs apologizing to the world for electing Bush. The archive is heartbreaking: [link:www.sorryeverybody.com/index_old.shtml|Sorry Everybody]

I bought the coffee-table book. It's great. Hard not to tear up, though.

Th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/73 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:12:39 I like this Demonweed fellow. He blogs at http://demonweed.wordpress.com. Smart guy.

http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/demoncheezb.jpg

http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2637028864... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/72 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:15:32 I think the GOP just got their community organized for them. Stuffed into a neat little box and left outside in the rain for the quarterly dump run.

Some were kvetching, there, inside the little box.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/71 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:13:08 http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/cat!!.jpg

An exploding family. Meth. Stolen car. Lost job. Eviction.

Two cats, inconsequential, unconsidered, invisible.

Once loved, but the kids are gone now. Poof.

The older cat disappears. Poof. The younger one scurries, a little freaked out in the empt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/70 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:07:58 patterns are patterns all over the foam
regardless of hardware or source of its power
Cynthia breathes with electrons of joy
smiles in her I-space and sings in her shower
wonderful leapings and no one can tell
she has it all human and loves a one man
a small pattern-maker from rivulets of rand... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/69 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:09:18 Did you know that Obama is a coward who hates the military, and wants to dismantle our only protection against the evil Decepticons, so that they can destroy our entire solar system? Transformers 2 reveals the Fox News Truth. Film at fucking eleven.

Micheal Bay, Director? Steven Spielberg, Exe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/68 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:51:48 [div class="excerpt"]You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
and in the middle of negotiations
you break down

I never give you my number
I only give you my situation
and in the middle of investigation
I break down

Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/67 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:29:46 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyzwbRK_GM&feature=player_embedded

"Radio Sol" by The Jupiter Sheep.

This video was shot on 16mm film in 1992, and never edited, unitl now. Its sister video. "Beat Park", was finished and sent to MTV, where it played once. The song "Radio Sol" was on regular r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/66 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:58:37 He lives forever, alongside Rosa, and Martin, and Bobby.

This is a brave and honorable human being. His image will live forever.

http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/tankman.jpg

[link:lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-a-new-angle-on-history/|The New York Times] has a new angle,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/65 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:15:32 42 And lo be it the law throughout the land
that freaks full of hatred for the love that others bear
so full of it that they will strive with every effort
to shame and denounce and deny all human rights to such
pointing to their poorly-translated ancient documents
and demanding that they be mad... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/64 Tue, 26 May 2009 14:05:37 http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/yankbuc.jpg

Often I will buy a 2-DVD 4 movie set of old fifties flicks for six bucks, and watch every single movie on it. This one, ‘Pirates Of The Golden Age’, was pretty damned excellent. Michelle Wallerstein told me that pirate movies are dead — ‘Don’t write one’... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/byronius/63 Thu, 21 May 2009 02:55:28