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| Cartoon: Bad Santa A cartoon by Clay Jones. |
Clay Jones | 12/08/2023 | 4 |
| What are you reading? December 8, 2023
In WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…got no reading done this week but I do ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/08/2023 | 5 |
| Overnight News Digest: Earth on the brink of five catastrophic climate tipping points
Tonight’s news awaits your comments. Everyone is encouraged to share their 2¢ or articles, stories, and tweets. This is an open thread. |
Magnifico | 12/07/2023 | 23 |
| Top Comments: It's Not the Aurora Borealis, It's... Steve
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ... |
gizmo59 | 12/07/2023 | 10 |
| 📚 Write On! The audience and the connect. Hiya, writers and friends. So, last week we were talking about the necessity of engaging readers/audience, and that it’s really pretty biological with them! Some of that has to do with the audience identifying with the characters or situation, and we... |
mettle fatigue | 12/07/2023 | 71 |
| A Song of Zion: Chanukkah, oh, Chanukkah! Ninalyn of the DailyKOS community presents a songfilk: I have a new menorah, I got it just this year I’ll put it in my window to spread Chanukkah cheer! Menorah, my menorah, I got it just this year I’ll put it in my window to spread Chanukkah cheer! I... |
Ninalyn | 12/07/2023 | 72 |
| For those who think just one vote won’t make a difference Every vote counts — and it’s okay to vote for yourself. What Roth didn’t know was that he was casting the decisive ballot in a race that would be determined by one vote. His opponent, Damion Green, had chosen not to vote for himself in the election,... |
thehecticdialectic | 12/07/2023 | 3 |
| I was scammed and lost everything, don't let it happen to you. So we decided to flee Indiana. For background, my name is Alexis, I'm a nonbinary trans person, married to my trans husband Ian, and we have 2 kids, Felix, aged 12, and Zinnia age 9. Indiana is currently attempting the "Florida Speedrun" insofar as it... |
A Bleeding God | 12/07/2023 | 100 |
| Cartoon: Musk to Earth Elon Musk wont take the abuse anymore! He told advertisers (fleeing “X” or “Twitter”) to “go fuck themselves,” but in the end it is Musk who has fucked himself. |
laloalcaraz | 12/07/2023 | 7 |
| Pioneer farming Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
| Unholy Moses: Mike Johnson claims God chose him to lead America to a Republican promised land 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... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 12/07/2023 | 146 |
| Sen. J.D. Vance demands Justice Department investigate Trump-critical Washington Post editorial On Nov. 30, Washington Post Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan wrote an extended opinion piece arguing that Donald Trump is on a "clear path" to establishing a dictatorship in this country, and that ... |
Hunter | 12/07/2023 | 256 |
| Cartoon: Kevin McCarthy to leave House A cartoon by Jeff Danziger. |
Jeff Danziger | 12/07/2023 | 16 |
| Indians 101: Northwest Coast Killer Whale crests (museum exhibit) The First Nations of the Northwest Coast have a way of life which is oriented toward the sea.� These peoples lived in permanent villages with complex social organizations. Northwest Coast art, like ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| New report unsurprisingly shows that profiteers have raised prices well above the rise in costs 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... |
Meteor Blades | 12/07/2023 | 148 |
| Cartoon: Mike Luckovich on anonymity A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. |
Mike Luckovich | 12/07/2023 | 24 |
| An “early” Song of Zion: Revised Biblical Archeology: Parsha Vayeishev I am posting early but at the usual time later today, expect a posting from Ninalyn who signed up for this week’s posting. As I was working on a post about some archeology articles from Ha’Aretz I noticed a few parallels with this week’s Parsha and one... |
thewavethatiam | 12/07/2023 | 14 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Thursday Breaking News House Republicans said Wednesday they've uncovered fresh evidence of corruption by President Biden, inching them closer to launching a formal impeachment inquiry. According to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), the president was seen... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/07/2023 | 72 |
| Cartoon: Boy Adventurer Billy Dare in the Ominous Jungle 👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here . And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! |
RubenBolling | 12/07/2023 | 27 |
| Overnight News Digest for Dec 6 2023 (Night before Chanukah edition) Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
jeremybloom | 12/06/2023 | 14 |
| Top Comments: Some Personal News. The Happy Kind. The Pelican has landed!
But first, a word from our sponsor:
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Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 12/06/2023 | 34 |
| Bookchat: Mysteries and binge reading Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Last Tuesday I wrote ... |
bookgirl | 12/06/2023 | 70 |
| George Santos finds his calling On Friday, former Republican Rep. George Santos was expelled from Congress, half a year after being indicted for embezzling money from his campaign , one month after being indicted again for ... |
Hunter | 12/06/2023 | 71 |
| Helping out ahead of the winter holidays. Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the place where politics meets up with religion, science, nature, art, and life. Come in, have a cuppa and a cookie (or three!) and join us. Helping ... |
Aashirs nani | 12/06/2023 | 6 |
| Big Media create ads helping greenwash the fossil fuel industry and hurting reporter credibility If you’re unaware of Drilled, an award-winning website dedicated to focusing on climate accountability, you would do well to add it to your collection of substacks to read and support. It was founded six years ago by veteran climate reporter Amy... |
Meteor Blades | 12/06/2023 | 22 |
| Ohio History Center: Animals with expanded ranges (museum exhibit) The natural history displays in the Ohio History Center in Columbus include animals whose ranges have expanded. According to the Museum: “Today Ohio is a different world from the Ohio Country ... |
Ojibwa | 12/06/2023 | 6 |
| Sexual Predator Was Associate Pastor At My Catholic School And Parish. A Louisville Courier-Journal Op Ed piece ran the other day about how Kentucky law does not really allow victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests to file lawsuits because of statute of limitations ... |
Merlin196360 | 12/06/2023 | 30 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday He’ll Always be #1... ...among Republicans expelled from the House. Kimmel bids an embarrassing farweell: Nice legacy, Chesterfield. |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/06/2023 | 105 |
| Cartoon: The Texas GOP The Texas Tribune reported Saturday that the Texas GOP executive committee rejected a proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers. This comes in the wake of another ... |
Nick Anderson | 12/06/2023 | 27 |
| Overnight News Digest December 5, 2023
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �... |
Chitown Kev | 12/05/2023 | 12 |
| Top Comments: Hockey Open Thread Edition The Isles are back home after multiple road trips and the annual Thanksgiving week games. That means I am back at the arena watching a game, and you all are left to fend for yourselves. So talk ... |
cohenzee | 12/05/2023 | 18 |
| Nonfiction Views: This week's notable new nonfiction Good evening, everyone. Forgive the hiatus I took with Nonfiction Views for a couple weeks. Just too busy. But you didn’t miss much. The publishing world was rather slow those couple weeks, and it ... |
DebtorsPrison | 12/05/2023 | 4 |
| Atheism Is Not a Religion Theists claim that atheism is a religion. Compare some of the key markers of religion to atheism: Religion involves worship. Atheists do not worship anything. No gods, no demons, no ancestors, no animals, no celestial objects, no kings or other humans,... |
Sarajen | 12/05/2023 | 759 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/5/2023: Salmagundi, Part 2
Ernst Eitner : View of the Alster at Night (1895)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
When I was messing around trying to get ... |
belinda ridgewood | 12/05/2023 | 174 |
| Contemporary Fiction Views: When two wounded souls meet More than one woman has felt she has lost her voice, that she is not heard, that no one heeds her feelings or ideas. In Greek Lessons , Han Kang brings to life a woman who literally loses her voice. ... |
bookgirl | 12/05/2023 | 29 |
| Angry about record-low unemployment, Marjorie Taylor Greene blames it on abortion Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene piped up with more Republican thoughts Monday, and if you know anything about Greene, you already know it's going to be bad.
This time, the notorious Georgia ... |
Hunter | 12/05/2023 | 168 |
| Cartoon: Kissinger ... |
keefknight | 12/05/2023 | 12 |
| The Dark Storm Sometimes despair falls on you, gently and softly like an inverted snowstorm of dusky, shadowy flakes, silently accumulating in the mind. These flakes do not reflect the light; they absorb it; slowly stealing away all color and texture. As the layers... |
AndyT | 12/05/2023 | 5 |
| Johnson says Republicans blurring faces of insurrectionists so they can’t be 'charged by the DOJ' When new House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he would be "keeping [his] promise" to release all 44,000 hours of Capitol security camera footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection, it wasn't just far-... |
Hunter | 12/05/2023 | 185 |
| Indians 201: An Indian victory in Eastern Washington in 1858 In the 1850s, the policy of the United States regarding the Indian nations in eastern Washington was to force Indians onto a few reservations and open up the land for the railroad, for farming and ... |
Ojibwa | 12/05/2023 | 2 |
| Cartoon: A taste of his own war crimes Help keep this work sustainable by joining the � Sorensen Subscription Service! � Also on � Patreon . |
Jen Sorensen | 12/05/2023 | 21 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday Top 6 Reasons to Sign Up for Health Insurance at Healthcare.gov Today 6. You only have 10 days left to sign up for coverage starting January 1st. 5. Did somebody say excellent benefits? Like no denial for pre-existing conditions? Like keeping... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/05/2023 | 161 |
| Top Comments: Seasonal 2023 Part I (Festivating) Edition Every year since 2010 I’ve done a series of December diaries focusing on a variety of seasonal topics ranging from music to food to ugly sweaters. (Full disclosure: I did ONE Seasonal diary in 2008, |
brillig | 12/04/2023 | 16 |
| Kari Lake demonized Arizona Republicans. Now she’s demanding their support for her Senate run Media critics and experts have repeatedly warned that the political media's sloppy insistence on gossip and horse-race coverage while ignoring the public issues behind the politics is the "darkness" ... |
Hunter | 12/04/2023 | 43 |
| Museums 101: Some boats with outboard motors (photo diary) During the twentieth century, one of the popular ways to power boats, particularly smaller boats, was the outboard motor, a portably motor which was usually attached to the stern of the boat. Shown ... |
Ojibwa | 12/04/2023 | 7 |
| Ohio History Center: Transportation related exhibits (photo diary) The Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio includes a number of transportation related exhibits. |
Ojibwa | 12/04/2023 | 4 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Monday It's Morning in America Democrats will focus their energy on reducing inflation…and boosting economic growth…and protecting Social Security and Medicare…and adding to the three million jobs created in the last year alone…and transitioning to clean... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/04/2023 | 75 |
| WAYWO--December
Welcome to What Are You Working On? where we talk about (and often display) our handiwork, whether yarn and ... |
vgranucci | 12/03/2023 | 11 |
| America's Car Museum: Cars from the 1910s (photo diary) During the decade of the 1910s, the automobile began to enter into American life and begin its� evolution from a frivolous plaything to one of life’s necessities. Cars became mass produced and ... |
Ojibwa | 12/03/2023 | 7 |
| Ancient Europe: The Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) In the early nineteenth century, museum curators began organizing their prehistoric collections by classifying cutting tools according to the material used to make them: stone, bronze, and iron. ... |
Ojibwa | 12/03/2023 | 78 |
| Weekly Spotlight on climate and eco-diaries (12/3/2023): COP28; consumer choices; peak carbon soon? The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the... |
Meteor Blades | 12/03/2023 | 17 |
| Earth Matters: With 100% clean energy mandate, Michigan Democrats show elections have consequences Two years ago, wagering that Michigan would enact a clean energy package like the one Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Tuesday would be a good way to lose your rent money. The state House of Representatives had been in Republican hands for a... |
Meteor Blades | 12/03/2023 | 65 |
| The Inoculation Project 12/3/2023: Fiction and Non-fiction! This week, we’re helping two book projects with matching-funds offers: a biology book for a Texas high school, and a novel about a girl in Mumbai battling water thieves, for an Oklahoma middle school. We hope that readers who support quality public... |
belinda ridgewood | 12/03/2023 | 18 |
| Museums 401: Shoes (photo diary) As a part of their clothing ensemble, modern humans wear coverings on their feet known as shoes. When did humans first start wearing shoes? One of the important clues comes from biological ... |
Ojibwa | 12/02/2023 | 17 |
| ArtKos: Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.955 Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be continuing with the painting of the Jerome, Arizona scene. The photo that I'm using (My own from a recent visit.) is seen directly below.
I'll ... |
boran2 | 12/02/2023 | 6 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! Late Night Snark: Put Up Your Dukes Edition "A fistfight almost broke out at a congressional hearing after Senator Markwayne Mullin challenged the president of the Teamsters union to a fistfight. He challenged the president of the Teamsters to a... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/01/2023 | 136 |
| WriteOn! The Science of Compelling Stories Hat tip to novapsyche for bringing this paper to my attention: In “Why Inspiring Stories Make Us React: The Neuroscience of Narrative,” Paul Zak explained that “compelling narratives cause oxytocin release”—the “love” or bonding hormone—“and have the... |
strawbale | 11/30/2023 | 102 |
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