And you were there....and you were there...and you were there...
I just had the greatest April Fool's joke played on me. I guess someone slipped some LSD into my Evian. What horrible halluciations I had. It all seems like some horrible dream. I dreamt my...
View Article(UPDATED!)Love and Community
The outpouring of sympathy and affection for Meteor Blades in this difficult time for him(EDITOR'S NOTE: Oh Jesus, I wrote "me" instead of "him." I blame exhaustion. Or being a dumbass. Your pick. Rest...
View ArticleWe Cannot Believe Americans Can Do These Things
(Author's note: Title taken from a Union soldier's comment upon seeing the devastation wrought around Petersburg, VA.)"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never...
View ArticleWarmongers: A Photo Essay
Given the positive reaction to my first attempt at this a couple months ago, (video version here) I thought I'd try this again. Once again, the song is taken from Dylan, who I've been listening to a...
View ArticleLate Night Fluff: What the hell is wrong with men?(w/poll)
Ah, sex. Hot, sweaty, panting, shuddering, moaning, writhing, grinding, screaming, sex sex sex. We've all (well, most of us, anyway) "done it." Some of us are really good at it...others aren't. Some...
View ArticleWhat You Don't Understand About Bob Casey and Union Workers
It was with an appalled sense of horror today that I watched this diary climb higher and higher up the recommended list and receive praise from people I know and respect. Even worse was the gnashing of...
View ArticleYou Suck and I Hate You (WYFP?)
God, I hate today. My car, only slightly younger than Attilla the Hun apparently sprung a thousand leaks today and is bleeding fluid like an unlubricated ass that just had an English cucumber rammed...
View ArticleLate Night Fluff: A Modern Dragonmount
First of all, let me say that this is satire intended for a very narrow, specific slice of the Kossack audience. If you haven't read The Wheel of Time series--or at least "The Eye of the World", the...
View Article23 years ago...
Geologically speaking, not so long a time. But in terms of change, it has been an eternity. Events great and small shook the world in 1982. Today's world would be, I daresay, unimaginable to those...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
This diary got me and I suspect every Kossack who read it thinking very long and very hard about some very unpleasant issues. It disturbed me quite seriously in any number of ways. First there was...
View ArticleKarl Rove Hits the Diners
I know, I know, judging by his immense bulk, he's hit the diners a little too much in his life...but that's not what I mean. There's a little diner in my town I go to often. And by "often" I mean...
View ArticleATTN: L.A. Area Kossacks--A Life Changing Opportunity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raybin Industries, LLC is proud--nay, OVERJOYED--to announce founder and CEO Robert N. Strong will be traveling to the West Coast on a cross country trip with a friend ending in...
View ArticleBlame Everyone
frontpaged at My Left Wing You can blame whoever and whatever you want for the disaster that has befallen the United States. You can curse God for visiting such devastation and allowing this to happen....
View Articleset it all aside and just think
frontpaged as "Someone should say something..." over at My Left Wing. and yeah, I suck at titles. You may have noticed I stole the Kid Oakland all lowercase title style...steal only from the best I...
View ArticleUPDATED: John Roberts and the Triumph of Wishful Thinking
frontpaged at My Left Wing Edited slightly I noticed a disturbing trend today in the lefty blogosphere as the Roberts hearing progressed. To wit, it was a widespread denial that Roberts is or will be...
View ArticleDeath in September
frontpaged at My Left Wing As I sit down to write these words, just about 6 p.m. EST, 142 years ago the greatest (or worst, depending on how you like to choose your adjectives) holocaust in American...
View ArticleSodomy Is Evil, Unless We Do It To The Environment
Such is, I believe, the Bush Administration's motto when it comes to the planet. One of the few great, unabashedly liberal magazines left--Rolling Stone--has a superb article this month about the Bush...
View ArticleWell. Okay then.
frontpaged as "Ummmmm..." at My Left Wing I was trying to think of something funny to say about this story from Think Progress but I came to the conclusion that snark is redundant. Last week, after...
View ArticleAmerican Angel
Author's note: I was remiss in not posting this yesterday. Crossposted at Street Prophets and My Left Wing I don't believe in angels. I never have, really, not even during my practicing Christian...
View ArticleGoodbye Cruel World
Dear friends, I've had it. I'm done. I'm through. I quit. I thought about merely slinking away and disappearing, but my vanity won't permit that. Plus, having mocked so many of these in my time, I...
View ArticleHerodotus weeps
frontpaged at My Left WingJust when you thought the right couldn't possibly get any dumber, here comes...CAPTAIN FALAFEL!!! <trumpets blare>Media Matters and Atrios are already on top of this,...
View ArticleOkay, 50 percent of America, here you go...
frontpaged at My Left WingUPDATE: Well, hell. I thought I had things laid out pretty solid, but apparently not. Ah well, I gave it a shot. Maybe someone else could do better. It was with a great sense...
View Article'Twas the Night Before Fitzmas
Twas the night before Fitzmas and in the White House The Preznit was snoring for his condition was "soused." His aides were cowering under their beds with a scare From fear that St. Fitzgerald soon...
View ArticleJackasses to the Rescue
frontpaged at My Left WingHeroes and saviors often come in unlikely forms. The recently departed and much missed Rosa Parks certainly qualifies as an unlikely hero. Jesus of Nazareth would be...
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A Cleverly Planned Ambush
frontpaged at My Left Wing"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them." - Sun Tzu"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem...
View ArticleThe People's Resolution; or, A Study in Contrast
crossposted at My Left Wing Though for reasons that continue to escape me and every logical person on the face of the planet, the scientific validity of evolution as a theory is currently under...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly Makes Baby Herodotus Cry
frontpaged at My Left WingAs I've demonstrated previously Bill O'Reilly has a problem. Well, okay he has 1,706,830 problems (I checked) but the one I'm immediately concerned with right now is his...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly's Secret Identity...REVEALED! Plus a song.
frontpaged at My Left Wing Folks, I've got it! This has to be what Archimedes felt when he sat down in the bathtub or when Newton got bonked on the head with that apple! A moment of pure inspiration...
View ArticleScythe of the Reaper
frontpaged at My Left Wing Major General Patrick Cleburne and Captain Tod Carter, two of the more than 35,000 members of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, awoke to the cold dawn of November 30, 1864....
View ArticleCold Harbor and the Birth of Modern Warfare
frontpaged at My Left Wing Okay, so there are a few things I need to clear up before we get into this one. This is not a new work, in the sense that I just today sat down and wrote it. A year ago...
View ArticleThe Great Emancipator vs. The Great Malefactor
crossposted at My Left Wing It was a winter day like any other in the nation's capital. The wind was blowing, adding to the already considerable chill outside. Inside the House of Representatives...
View ArticleI Wrote This Diary To Make Me Feel Better
a version of this frontpaged at My Left Wing I have to say I like DHinMI much more than many people do because I appreciate his wit and obvious intelligence, even when it's used to express opinions I...
View ArticleDebate With Bonzo
frontpaged at My Left Wing Lookee everyone, the Preznit's made a proclamation! As much as it might turn your stomach, you have to read all of this. Just to believe it. Even for this administration...
View ArticleWanker of the Day...
...is Atrios. As much as it pains me to do this, because I truly think this may have been the first time I've strenuously and seriously disagreed with Atrios in the nearly 3 years since I've been...
View ArticleRattlesnake Wine
frontpaged at My Left Wing Water, grapes, yeast and sugar. What do they have to do with each other? Seemingly nothing. But mix them in a sterile container, put a lid on and then walk away for a...
View Article...so why don't I feel like laughing?
frontpaged at My Left Wing I made mention to some folks the other day that I have a habit of collecting jokes that are awful, disgusting, and tasteless. Really, many of them can only loosely be called...
View ArticleSomebody give me the irony chainsaw(UPDATED)
frontpaged at My Left Wing...because I got a whole mass to cut through right now. As I right these words, right above Kos' post making excuses for the power play that stabbed Hackett in the back, is...
View ArticleAn Arrogant Proposal
frontpaged at My Left Wing George Walker Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. Dear Fuckhead, Crap. I'm sorry. Reflex action. Dear Sir, I'm sure you have all the advice you...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman Might Be On To Something...
crossposted at My Left Wing Holy Joe has been taking a lot of flack in recent weeks for this comment:"It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To The American People
crossposted at My Left Wing Dear folks, Can we talk? Because we really need to. It's important. I have shit to do. I'm in the process of moving out of my apartment, which is running me ragged. I'm...
View ArticleUntitled (1,826)
crossposted at My Left Wing I was never any good at titles. And, anyway, is a title really necessary? Probably not. But then again, I'm not sure. How sure of anything have any of us been in the...
View ArticleThe Bully Punch
cross-posted at My Left Wing and Blue House DiariesLet me tell you a story. It's a story of course. Purely hypothetical. Nothing like this could ever really happen. Everyone likes a good story,...
View ArticleThe Graveyard of Their Dreams, Part 1
There was formerly a diary here which people seemed to like. Circumstances have dictated it disapper. C'est la vie. This sentence is strictly filler only so as to meet the length requirement. Still...
View ArticleI Am Sam
crossposted at Blue House Diaries and My Left WingBefore we begin, this isn't about any Sean Penn movies.No, it's about this:"I came home a hero, and now I’m a bum." --Sam Ross, Jr. It's...
View ArticleYou've sown it, now you must reap it
adapted and somewhat recast to make it site specific from a diary originally written for My Left WingWith the possible exception of Iraq, I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I've...
View ArticleCongo Rebels Seize Mountain Gorilla Habitat(Updated)
As nyceve so ably documented,the conflict in the Congo is unbelievably stomach churning and tragic.Well, in a certain type of way, it just got even more so:KINSHASA, Congo - Rebels have seized an area...
View ArticleRise, America
crossposted atMy Left Wing, ,Blue House Diaries, Wild Wild Left, Street ProphetsWell, fuck, I guess he got bored dancing exclusively on the graves of New Yorkers. Time to deface New Orleans once more...
View ArticleA Tale Told By An Idiot
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.In today's world, that could refer to a vast multitude of things. In this case, however, I have reference to one particular subject....namely, me.I'd wanted...
View ArticleOne Man to Overthrow
Pride (In The Name Of Love)One man come in the name of love One man come and go. One man come he to justify One man to overthrow.In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love...
View ArticleThe Seventeen Year Itch
Please understand when I say "we" and "us" I mean people who think like me, not necessarily every person who read thisDear Democratic party "leaders,"In 1992 you asked us to turn out and work for a man...
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