Impending Suspension of Habeas Corpus
The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a foundation of civil liberties. It existed in British common law for many centuries. Later it was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It is a main bulwark against...
View ArticleAnother miracle!
I just barely survived the most terrifying driving experience I’ve ever had! I’m still shaking from a panic attack.It has been supernaturally warm for February. It’s the warmest February ever for the...
View ArticleEDIT: Khizr Khan's "Travel Privileges" Reportedly Under Review
Khizr Khan has had to cancel a planned trip to give a speech in Toronto because he was informed that his “travel prileges are under review.” www.rawstory.com/…See also theweek.com/….How can that be...
View ArticleFederal Judge In Hawaii Strikes Down Muslim Ban 2
www.cnn.com/...This is an important ruling. Like one before over the last Executive Order, this imposes a nationwide ban on the order.The judge finds a specific religious bigotry in the order, which...
View ArticleEDITED: Poetry Diary for Everybody #1
Clio2 and Angmar have been running a diary series called CLASSIC POETRY that is often very wonderful. Last night I mentioned that I have about 50 of my poems typed up, but I’ve been too neurotic to...
View ArticleEDITED: Last Rites For My Beloved Wife
My beloved wife Judy hit age 65 this week. She was just diagnosed with the rarest and most aggressive form of uterine cancer: carcinosarcoma. A VERY ugly word! The Internet says the 5-year survival...
View ArticleUpdated x 1: Update about my beloved wife!
Several days ago I wrote an impassioned and lugubrious diary about my wife’s impending major surgery for cancer.This is to report that we got the best possible result.Update 1: Wow! That was a...
View ArticleMore on Last Week's Purge
This is a modified repost of a comment I just made on the long Mass Bannings 2 thread on the Help Desk:I've never had much interaction with Delphine, because we tend to frequent different kinds of...
View ArticleHelp Me With This
So what class am I? I’m thinking of this after watching the daily news.My father grew up on a farm in remote Missouri in the 1930s, but he was brilliant, and after serving in the Marines in WW2, he...
View ArticleNaming the Nazis
It’s amazing how much confusion there is over the names and labels for those asshole protestors in Charlottesville.Nazis.Neo-Nazis.Fascists.Neo-Fascists.Alt-Right.Skinheads.White supremacists.White...
View ArticlePlease go read and rec this diary!
In almost 14 years here I don’t think I’ve ever done this before, but I’m impelled to ask everybody to read and rec this great diary: www.dailykos.com/….
View ArticleStudent Attacked for Sitting during Pledge of Allegiance
Winters Mill High School is in Westminster, the country seat of rural, deep-red Carroll County, Maryland, which is about 40 miles northwest of Baltimore. Earlier this week a student was quietly...
View ArticleWhere is Kos?
This is Daily Kos. I signed up here 14 years ago, after at least a year of lurking, because of the daily posts from kos (Markos Moulitsas).I’m wondering what he’s up to. He hasn’t posted a diary...
View ArticleMy Favorite Poem: Relevant Today
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918 (written in 1880). 31. Spring and Fall to a young child MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man,...
View ArticleUpdate x1: Unbelievable AI Advance!! Super Go beats Previous Champion 100 to 0!!
www.sciencemag.org/…I just read about this in Science News. Two years ago the first version of this Google computer beat the world's champion Go player in a match. Go is much more complicated than...
View ArticleUPDATED: Some Good News About My Wife
I’ve written a couple of diaries about my wife’s battle with the rarest and most aggressive form of uterine cancer. The top-notch oncological surgeon said the chance of recurrence is 50-50, even with...
View ArticleGuilt About A Fundraising Call From A Candidate
I live in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. Although I’m in Carroll County, an incredibly red county, Jamie Raskin represents about half of the county (including me) after the latest...
View ArticleMy Franken Fantasy
Arne Carlson, a Republican former governor of Al Franken’s home state of Minnesota has called on him not to resign, at least not until he gets some proper due process. www.twincities.com/…I hope that’s...
View ArticleThe Helpdesk Has Blown Up
Ordinarily one would post a notice like this on the Helpdesk. But that’s currently impossible, since the Helpdesk itself has blown up. It’s now all in blue instead of orange. And the links don’t...
View ArticlePresident Pelosi
I had quite the dream last night. The Dems sweep both houses of Congress by huge majorities in 2018. They then immediately launch parallel impeachment proceedings against Trump and Pence at the same...
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