Top Comments: Some Tips to Make DK 5 a bit Easier
This is my very first official DK 5 diary (I had the privilege of writing the last one in DK 4). It’s been quite the experience (particularly didn’t like having to write it twice since every...
View ArticleTop Comments: No, It's Not "Too Soon" Edition
Your stinking thoughts and prayers meme every time someone or multiple someones are shot in random acts of gun violence aren’t working. Neither are the platitudes about good guys with guns, “it’s too...
View ArticleIt's Been More Than a Month. Why Isn't DK 5 Any Better?
Yo, peeps! Squeaky Wheel here to ask why things aren’t better at the supposedly “new and improved” Daily Kos. We were assured that fixes would be made and asked for patience. The very last update,...
View ArticleHahahahaha! Scott Walker Has Some More Problems.
As bad as it is to make the GQ List of The Worst People of 2015 with a listing of #13 (i.e. considered worse than Roger Goodell of the NFL, The Confederate Flag, Roger Ailes, Rahm Emanuel, 2 celebrity...
View ArticleTop Comments: Dealing With "Uncle Bob" at the Holiday Dinner Table
Whether you like it or not, you’re likely going to have to deal with a Fox Newz watching, Rush Limbaugh listening cranky relative tomorrow. You’ve been dreading it since the last holiday dinner because...
View ArticleTop Comments: Get Ready for More Fear
Welcome to 2016, a Presidential Election Year. If you think that the right wingers have been ginning up fear for the last 3 years (and driving corporate media coverage, as well), you ain’t seen nothing...
View ArticleTop Comments: How Incredibly White of the Oscars (again)
For the second consecutive year The Academy Awards has failed to nominate a single non-white actor for an award. Despite great films such as Straight Outta Compton, Concussion and prominent actors of...
View ArticleI've Been Waiting My Whole Life for a Woman President, but I'm for Bernie
I just got my Medicare Card so that tells you how long I’ve felt the discrimination of being a woman and how long I’ve waited to vote for a woman for President. As a Registered Nurse I watched men get...
View ArticleTop Comments: "Enthusiams" Edition
No, it’s not a typo. I meant to write “enthusiasms” no matter how hard auto-correct has tried to foil it. It’s based on a scene from The Untouchables (warning: turn it off at the 1 minute, 54 second...
View ArticleAs Soon as BFSkinner Sees Things Looking Brighter Ahead, Dark Clouds Move in...
If what has been happening to our brother, BFSkinner, was a weather event, it might be described as a stationary tornado coupled with a hurricane which is frequently devastated by an earthquake and...
View ArticleLatest Wisconsin Polling: Good News for Bernie and Russ; Bad News for Scott...
Latest Marquette Poll in Wisconsin makes me smile. Marquette has frequently demonstrated to be the most reliable poll in the state.This poll interviewed 806 registered Wisconsin voters, by both...
View ArticleWisconsin/Scott Walker John Doe Probe WILL Go to the US Supreme Court
It’s ALIVE!Despite the massive attempts to kill it, the decision to kill the latest John Doe Probe looking at illegal coordination between Scott Walker and other Republicans and anonymously dark money...
View ArticleIt's YUGE! Bernie Sanders Won the Women's Vote Tonight
Bye bye Bernie Bros meme. Hello women for Bernie! You’ll have to scroll half a page on those exit polls to get to the Democratic ones, but the big wow for the night is that Bernie not only won 83% of...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You About the Debate "Audience" In Milwaukee (Update)
I LIVE in the Milwaukee area, so you’d think I could manage to wrangle a ticket to tonight’s debate, right? Wrong! The closest I could come was the chance of “winning” a ticket via the Wisconsin...
View ArticleTop Comments: My Favorite Things Edition
My dad had a pair of brown pants that he wore for nearly 40 years. They were so threadbare from washing and drying that they had a shine to them. Despite my efforts and buying him several replacements,...
View ArticleHere's What You Should Remember from 2008 (Update)
Past is prologue, we’re told, along with the need to remember the past to avoid repeating the same mistakes. All true and worth noting.I’ve been experiencing a whole lot of deja vu lately in the...
View ArticleTop Comments: Mein Drumpf Edition
You gotta love John Oliver. While the entire show is brilliant, the “Drumpf" part set up starts 18 minutes in and really gets going at 19 minutes. x YouTube VideoYes, the make Donald Drumpf again has...
View ArticleTop Comments: We Have Met the Enemy and S/He is Us Edition
We are often our own worst enemy.Environmentally, we’re an ongoing disaster, a slow motion train wreck we can’t seem to stop. We’re the only species that fouls its own nest. It comes back to bite us in...
View ArticleOn, Wisconsin. The Bernie Ball is in Our Court (Update)
It’s up to us to bring Bernie a win in Wisconsin on April 5. Not only that, but to continue down ballot to elect Democrats in our local elections and put Joanne Kloppenburg on the State Supreme Court...
View ArticleIn Line for Bernie's Rally in West Allis, Pwning a Reporter Live, and Poll...
Yesterday was eventful.As noted in my last piece, Bernie Sanders held a rally near my home in West Allis, Wisconsin last night. My 70 year old cousin and I made plans to go as soon as it was announced....
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