"To put the torture behind us is, inevitably, to put it in front of us."
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I joined dailyKos exactly 10 years ago.
I have, per the Cromwellian phrasing, sat here far too long for any good that I have been doing, and it's time to move on.
Before shuffling off this orange ...
by UntimelyRippd
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on Wed Nov 04, 2015 at 07:28 PM PST
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This is the fourth in a series of diaries in which I revisit the most common maddeningly witless memes with which I've been confronted on dKos over the past decade.
The first entry addressed the ...
by UntimelyRippd
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on Wed Nov 04, 2015 at 12:57 PM PST
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This is the third in a series of diaries in which I revisit the most common maddeningly witless memes with which I've been confronted on dKos over the past decade.
The first entry dealt with people ...
by UntimelyRippd
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on Mon Nov 02, 2015 at 04:43 PM PST
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This is the second in a short series of diaries recapping certain repeated, and thus oh-so-boring, themes of dispute that have characterized my dialogues with various ideological factions on dKos.
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on Thu Oct 29, 2015 at 07:22 PM PDT
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This is the first in a short series of diaries in which I will be singling out certain concepts, attitudes, arguments, and philosophies as Boring and/or Stupid and/or Wrong; most often, my targets ...
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on Tue Oct 06, 2015 at 08:43 PM PDT
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This sort of thing simply transcends my capacity to comprehend.
This is a breaking story, and nobody knows much. His wife and oldest daughter were not at the house at the time. Folks will soon be ...
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