Andrew F Cockburn's Profile
Former state co-chair of West Virginia Working Families Party. Scientist. Former president of Mountaineers for Progress, the largest Indivisible group in WV. Not the journalist.
Real Name: Andrew Cockburn
Gender: male
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Occupation: biologist
Groups: Good News, West Virginia Kos
Diaries published: 43 (45 days since last diary on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 15208 (0 days since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 07:06 PM PST)
Diary frequency: seldom
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 66730
Total Comment Ratings: 119
Most Recommended Diary: I attended Elizabeth Warren's rally in WV, 242 comments, 504 recommends
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Having Respectful Religious Debate .
I can’t embed this video but I highly recommend watching it. The discussion is about how atheists should�talk to people who have toxic religious beliefs. The ...
by Andrew F Cockburn
 140 comments
on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
with 167 Recommends
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I like to make sauerkraut/kimchee. This is my latest batch, which has just started to ferment. By the time it is done it will be uniformly red because the pigment will leach out of the red cabbage ...
by Andrew F Cockburn
128 comments
on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
with 183 Recommends
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I normally try to feature�stories that might have slipped under the radar during the bombardment of Ukraine/tfg/MAGA news. For some reason this week I didn’t pick up much interesting (to me at ...
by Andrew F Cockburn
138 comments
on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
with 177 Recommends
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Goody is off today so I am filling in. Here are some stories that caught my eye this week that don’t involve prisoner�P01135809 or things blowing up in eastern Europe.
Biden Administration ...
by Andrew F Cockburn
72 comments
on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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I have been learning�how to be a scientist since I was 17. That was when, as a freshman, I first was given a �project in a�research lab. Now, more than half a century later, I am starting to get the ...
by Andrew F Cockburn
131 comments
on Sat Jul 22, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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While doctor was WV GOP chairman, medical officials scrutinized his behavior toward female patient This stuff came out in a consent order signed by the perp and the WV Board of Medicine (you can find the document here): According to a consent order...
by Andrew F Cockburn
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on Wed Jun 21, 2023 at 09:20 AM PDT
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- Democratic leaders unsurprisingly announced on Thursday that they'd chosen former Rep. Tom Suozzi to be the party's nominee in the closely watched Feb. 13 special election to replace Suozzi's successor, expelled GOP Rep. George Santos. Suozzi has spent...3 comments 26 Recs
- The 2020 fake electors in Michigan and Georgia have been charged, the team in Wisconsin just admitted their crimes, and six fake bozos in Nevada were indicted this week. When Democrat Kris Mayes was running for Attorney General in Arizona last year, a...28 comments 172 Recs
- Pop the cork gang—Kevin McCarthy has decided to take his toys and go home by the end of the year! Democrats are glad, Republicans are mad, but guess who is pissed off the most: Gaetz! That’s right, the guy with the massive eight-head (yah know, as...120 comments 373 Recs
- The captain has illuminated the seat belt sign. Please return your trays to the upright position. That’s a damn shame about your electric infrastructure. This is reportedly a factory that produces transformers and other electrical equipment. That’s a...24 comments 322 Recs
- It's high time: 6 Democratic governors urge Biden to push DEA to reschedule marijuana by end of yearSix Democratic governors have sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging the administration�to push the Drug Enforcement Administration to “reschedule”�marijuana as a less dangerous Class III ...52 comments 97 Recs
- House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose grand vision for America includes transforming every uterus in the country into a Pez dispenser, is convinced he’s the North American Moses who will lead his people to the Promised Land. What Promised Land does he...128 comments 209 Recs
- Ok, it’s time to address the Republicans and their relationship to sexuality. In other words, it’s time to have the talk. Every time you turn around the Republicans are getting mired in many things sexual. Amsterdam has their famous red light district,...16 comments 35 Recs
- I’m using my canned outline again, but I’m trying something new this morning—mining DK itself for goodies. We have all sorts of animal, politics, science, and other cheering Diaries to work with, and we can ignore the relatively few Gloom & Doomers. So...94 comments 152 Recs
- While most U.S. media has its international news attention trained on events taking place in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana is making Caribbean and South American headlines. I doubt that most Americans would...206 comments 289 Recs
- A new report from progressive UK.-based think-tanks IPPR and Common Wealth says profiteering played a major role in jacking up prices far above the rise in costs, reinforcing a previous but narrower study showing such an impact. Among other things, the...132 comments 422 Recs
