The Next Eight Years: Obama Headlines We'd Like to Read
As President-Elect Obama inherits a series of extraordinary challenges to correct our country's course, I remember the crowds that turned out in Europe for his visit there, the celebrations across...
View ArticleMyAmerica.gov: Why the Great American Social Network Must Launch Today
As progressives everywhere strategize about evolving mybarackobama.com into a regional tool or refocusing change.gov, I must passionately and stubbornly insist that we merely borrow from those two...
View Article(*NEW POLL) MyAmerica.gov: A National Non-Partisan Network
As progressives everywhere strategize about evolving mybarackobama.com into a regional tool or refocusing change.gov, I must passionately and stubbornly insist that we merely borrow from those two...
View ArticleThe inaugural revolution will be...streamed (poll)
As part of the ongoing social technology revolution from Team Obama, on January 7, 2009, they unleashed USAservice.org, an independent, non-partisan social network for civic engagement in America....
View ArticleStream the Inauguration from your cell phone (poll)-UPDATE
Update: Why wait for the transition team to make mobile streaming of the inauguration happen when, as I wrote, the technology already exists? I've now created a Qik group so we can stream the...
View ArticleHaha, now THAT'S truth to power - a timeline (poll)
Some people are still concern-trolling the blogosphere, saying "the sky is falling" and "Democrats aren't standing up to power," and "we're going to lose this thing!" Okay, that last one they had to...
View ArticleLessons from the Watermelon Man: POLL (sensibilities alert) - UPDATE
In 1980, my sister and I were walking down a street of our new "hometown" of Wichita. We had just moved to Kansas from a country club in Santa Barbara County, and I'd just arrived from a summer in...
View ArticleUPDATE #2: The Watermelon Mayor Fully Resigns (POLL)
In a letter dated today, Monday, March 2, 2009, Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose resigned not only from his position as mayor, but from his seat on the City Council, "for the love of my community and the...
View ArticleMolested child's mom excommunicated; rapist absolved (POLL)
I would like to write a deep analysis of what I have just read, but it is hard to think right now. My heart breaks for this child and her mother and her doctors. Maybe there is something someone...
View ArticleCraigslist - the Sunday Funnies in an Unemployed World (POLL)
With zero data to confirm my claim, I am guessing that Craigslist is at server capacity these days, thanks to soaring unemployment and vanishing paper want ads. Now, the culture of CL has always meant...
View Article'Whites-Only' Designers Reap What They 'Sew' w/Mrs. O? (POLL)
The coolest thing about being African-American and bilingual Italian is that when you go to a model casting in Milan and are pointed to the sign that reads "no ragazze di colore" (no colored girls),...
View ArticleDebunking Obama Emails (POLL)
I was following the interesting threads on a diary from earlier today regarding the latest Obama urban legend about veteran's health care, then the diary vanished. So I decided to publish my lengthy...
View ArticleRegan McMurrey just kicked your kid's @ss. (POLL)
Regan McMurrey just kicked your kid's @ss. She posted last week to my alumni list-serv, as a top-tier college senior who built her first of many Web sites at age 11 for a non-profit, has won several...
View ArticleGallup "Pro-Life" Abortion Poll: MSM Fudges Results (POLL)
I have read and received calls and emails about the recent "stunning" Gallup poll where, purportedly, the majority of Americans, for the first time in years, identifies as "Anti-Choice" vs...
View ArticleIt's not a kingdom, it's a PRESIDENCY. (POLL)
In today's Huffington Post, the CEO of Human Rights First describes the "lively and detailed and serious" hour-plus discussion that Team Obama had with a number of human rights representative in...
View ArticleLGBT Brothers and Sisters: STOP WAITING FOR IT. (poll)
(This diary springs from a comment I made to an earlier diary that I just want to have HEARD.)What is with getting madder and madder as you wait or are told to wait for Obama to address gay rights?It...
View Article"Ghetto Loans" and the latest subprime scandal [POLL]
This from the Saturday New York Times:Beth Jacobson and her fellow loan officers at Wells Fargo Bank "rode the stagecoach from hell" for a decade, systematically singling out blacks in Baltimore and...
View ArticleMurder + Melanin = Terrorist? [POLL]
I'll keep this brief. I cried out in the middle of a phone call when the news flashed today. An extremist had opened fire in our Holocaust Museum. An American security guard was shot in cold blood,...
View ArticleSotomayor, Affirmative Action and Dissonance - poll
After a week of watching the full frontal race-carding of Republican senators in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, I have decided that it is not the election of Barack Obama that the history books...
View ArticleRacism: A Primer. (POLL)
In America, many equate discussing race with being racist (on Daily Kos, it is a frequent battle across so many diaries). And now with Harry Reid's quote about Obama's demographic chances as a...
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