Hillary-Shmillary
Hillary is not the essential problem. Electing an alpha female is a big deal, but not the solution to anything. What is?There are three kinds of politics: issues, money, and elections. None is more...
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Indiana Bill Signing Guest Bigots
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence won't say who the smiling bigots and homophobes were at the signing ceremony for the hateful SB 101, but many have been identified, and more could be. Any assistance in naming...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for the 2016 Republican Platform
There will be no baby eating, but short of that everybody is fair game. This means you.The question has been raised what positive issues Republicans can run on in this cycle, as opposed to...
View ArticleOf Two Global Warming Debates, One is Over
We have won on renewables. That means that the argument about the human causes of Global Warming doesn't matter so much, and that it will someday go away.The Denialists are still out in force, but they...
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Nuz Hounds Blogathon Fundraiser for Animal Nuz: Clownfish
Below the swirling school of Republican Clownfish: Nuz Naymz for all, especially the candidates! Join the fun!Nuz Hounds - Friends of Animal Nuz Presents the 1st Annual Animal Nuz Blogathon Fundraiser...
View ArticleTolkien on Climate Denial and ODS
It is well known that J. R. R. Tolkien held to a bucolic fantasy of pre-industrial England as a Utopia, as portrayed in the Shire in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Mordor, its polar opposite,...
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When Our Side Does Junk Science
Some will tell you that both sides do it, in the way that Lanny Davis has claimed that Rachel Maddow is just as bad as Rush Limbaugh. (I was there. I booed loudly.)No, we don't. When a purported...
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Welcome New Users: Do I Want to Read Your Diary? (Don't Bury Your Lede)
Do people not read your Diaries? Well, do you tell them right up front why they would want to? (Journalists call that the lede.) A Diary should let Kossacks know if they would want to open it. Don't...
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Daily Kos 5 Beta Resources
There is a dearth of readily accessible information about the upgrade from DK4 to DK5. Not that the information does not exist, but that nobody has been systematic about telling everybody where it...
View ArticleSC Gov. Nikki Haley Signs Flag Bill
The Confederate battle flag will come down from the Confederate memorial at the Capitol at 10 AM ET tomorrow (Friday).S.C. governor signs bill to remove Confederate flag from Capitol groundsSouth...
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Where Are My Steenkin' Badges, Kos?
Part of your profile is a display of badge icons, which seem not to be explained in any organized way in the FAQ or Knowledge Base, or anywhere else that I can find. So here you go, to the extent that...
View ArticledKos5 Click by Click Reference Manual Invitation
I have started a draft Reference Manual for DKos5/DK5 on Booktype, where you can join in the process. We need writers, testers, editors, and at least one graphic artist, to do a better cover. This...
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DK5 Open Thread: Where's Your Beef?
Have you tried the Open Beta of the dKos version 5 software? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Would you care to vent? How about that new logo, huh? And what happened to Flagman? Below the fold is a set...
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DK5 Manuals Group Announcement: Manuals Open Beta
We BlogEditors of the new DK5 Manuals group are mild-mannered tech writers in the documentation Open Beta.We are here to click buttons (Yeah!) and take screenshots and usernames (so we can give credits...
View ArticleEbola: Good News, But Not Over
There is good news on Ebola, but you have to go looking for it. There are very few active cases known to the World Health Organization (WHO) today, and a few hundred of their contacts are being...
View ArticleD'var Torah: What is Atonement?
Atonement (at-one-ment) in English is not the same as kippur in Hebrew, now generally understood as repentance. Both express facets of the same reality that prophets, priests, rabbis, and many others...
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Happy Birthday Song Freed
LA Times: All the 'Happy Birthday' song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rulesXKCD is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy...
View ArticleNo Ebola for One Week
Yes, it's a first since this outbreak began. No, that doesn't mean it's all over, and besides, Ebola fears continue to kill people, notably new mothers and newborns. But we are definitely getting close...
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DK5 Q&A
We have questions, like: How did this line get here?but this does? Also, woozlet can haz DK5? Woozlet trai n trai n trai, but nuffn happn.Why can't I move the image up to this line? I mean, I can and I...
View ArticleWhat Can You Embed in DK5 live?
Republished with some additions and minor changes from the Beta.We have an official list of image and video sources whitelisted for embedding in DK5 from elfling, in the Diary Toward a different access...
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