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Diaries published: 11 (1163 days since last diary on Thu Oct 01, 2020 at 01:10 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 1345 (58 days since last comment on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 06:01 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: I am now a Democrat!, 95 comments, 100 recommends
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I have almost $1000 that I can contribute to any Democratic candidates running for office at any level, whether that’s city, county, state or otherwise. It’s really not much in the grand scheme of things but it’s as much as I can come up...
by sjburnman
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on Thu Oct 01, 2020 at 01:10 PM PDT
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I lived for thirty-three years on this earth. My end came most unexpectedly, September last. My earthly remains were reduced to ashes. Ashes which sat for seven sad months, save for a few grams which were placed into pendants, worn by my mother and...
by sjburnman
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on Fri May 05, 2017 at 04:07 PM PDT
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November, 2015:
My brother in law Jeff, sixty years old. Three thousand miles away. Melanoma with sudden unexpected complications. The closest in-law relationship I had, he was like a brother to me. Survived by my sister and their two adult...
by sjburnman
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on Thu Dec 22, 2016 at 01:30 PM PST
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From the Southern Poverty Law Center:
“We are setting up a reward/fund for the police officer who shot this thug,” the Klan group said in an email. “He is a hero! We need more white cops who ...
by sjburnman
25 comments
on Thu Aug 14, 2014 at 07:22 PM PDT
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I would guess that most of the DKos community knows better, but the new movie " Lucy " plays on the silly old myth that we humans only use 10% of our brains. Fact is, that figure only applies to ...
by sjburnman
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on Wed Jul 23, 2014 at 06:53 PM PDT
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100 years ago today, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring had its first public performance.
From Wikipedia: When first performed, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde ...
by sjburnman
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on Wed May 29, 2013 at 08:32 PM PDT
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- When I was growing up, there were a lot of adults in my community who would never say “the C word.” It was as if naming cancer would somehow taint and infect everyone in hearing distance. Now that I have been diagnosed with both lung cancer — and some...842 comments 1064 Recs
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- CNN reports that a portion of author Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of the man who made Twitter, the site now known as X, safe for antisemitism shows that Elon Musk had a direct hand in ...460 comments 774 Recs
- I don’t have a good solution. I don’t have a good response. I only know I’m deeply saddened right now because one of my favorites, an 8th grader I have known and cared about for 3 years, through his first girlfriend and the death of his baby sister in...410 comments 1385 Recs
- Jack Smith has told Judge Tanya Chutkan in the Trump election interference case that public statements by Trump threaten to taint the jury pool. According to a new filing earlier today prosecutors claim that the "Defendant’s daily extrajudicial...165 comments 375 Recs
- White kids need to learn about white anti-racist activists Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez Let’s face it. Black people, who are only about 14% (more or less) of the population ...257 comments 141 Recs
- Thin-skinned hater of science and logic Robert Kennedy Jr. was hosted on Fox News Tuesday night as part of the right’s ongoing scheme to turn this dingus into a spoiler in the 2020 election. In ...96 comments 275 Recs
- In May of this year I received a draft civil complaint from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attorneys that they intend to file in the Southern District of New York. The complaint states that “Mr. Kennedy files this action to publicly establish the truth, to...414 comments 1378 Recs
- Sigh. This is the last piece I wanted to be writing today. But a diary now at the top of the Trending List is pissing me off since it makes demonstrably false claims about a diary that pissed them off. The critic diarist’s claim is that another diarist...608 comments 684 Recs
- (Reuters) -The leader of a U.S. think tank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Gal Luft, a citizen of the...161 comments 440 Recs
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