B.F. Skinner – STUCK in a Hole in the “Safety Net”
"To delay justice is injustice."— William Penn (1693)B.F. Skinner, Daily Kos member since 2008, has posted over 900 DK stories. A number of them are about his struggles with illness, and with the...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: A Virtual BURNS SUPPER
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View ArticleMorning Open Thread – State of the Union between POETRY and POLITICS
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View ArticleCALLING OUT ALL THE ANTI-WOMAN SPEECH
Okay — to be perfectly clear — I’m for ELIZABETH WARREN and RUTH BADER GINSBERG — I’m registered as an Independent because the Democratic Party is too right-wing for me — I vote for Democrats only when...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: ARCOSANTI, City for the Evolution of Humankind
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View ArticleIndigo Kalliope 2nd Tuesday: On the Bus with ROSA PARKS
Indigo Kalliope — Poems From The LeftKalliope means "beautiful voice" from Greek καλλος (kallos) "beauty" and οψ (ops) "voice". In Greek mythology she was a goddess of epic poetry and eloquence, one of...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: The Shape of One’s Soul and the Color of One’s Conscience
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View ArticleWOW2 - February's Women Trailblazers and Events in OUR History
Welcome to WOW2!WOW2 is a monthly sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. Here, we learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women - February 20, 2016
Gold Stars and special thanks to: ramara, Besame, and Tara the Antisocial Social Worker for all the links! Don’t miss WOW2, the monthly sister blog to This Week on the War on Women, which posted a...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Life Out-of-Focus - the MYOPIA Boom
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View ArticleGUNFIRE
I wrote this poem at the end of last year, a year bloodied by mass shootings, police violence, terrorism and war:GUNFIRE...Someone picks up a gun and points it,At some famous face they think they...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Jobs That Can’t Be OUTSOURCED to China
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View ArticleMorning Open Thread: The Battle of the OTHER Bunker Hill
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View ArticleIndigo Kalliope - 2nd Tuesday: Everyday We Get More Illegal
Indigo Kalliope — Poems From The LeftKalliope means "beautiful voice" from Greek καλλος (kallos) "beauty" and οψ (ops) "voice". In Greek mythology she was a goddess of epic poetry and eloquence, one of...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: SYLVIA BEACH, an American in Paris
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View ArticleWOW2 - March's Women Trailblazers and Events in OUR History
Welcome to WOW2!WOW2 is a monthly sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. Here, we learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: March 19, 2016
Welcome to This Week in the War on Women! WHERE The news may be bad, but the company is the best! Gold Stars and special thanks to: Tara the Antisocial Social Worker, ramara, Besame and Eyesbright for...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread: "And every prodigy of green"
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View ArticleMorning Open Thread: What Room Does Fear Have?
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View ArticleMorning Open Thread: Letters from SHAKESPEARE, Part One
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