Listen to Country Music: The Conservative Mind
So today, as I listened to the new NPR radio station (great!) and the music playing on the station at the restaurant I was eating at I had an epiphany. At the outset, I wish to say that I do not wish...
View ArticleReligion and Love of the Neighbor
Today I received an email from one of my rightwing, religious fundamentalist college students telling me that God loves me, that Scripture is the Truth and way, that God wants me to love him and that I...
View ArticleOn the Nature of Terrorism
Although I was disturbed about the cheering and chanting I witnessed last night in response to the death of Osama bin Laden, this weekend was nonetheless a great day for America and the world. Obama...
View ArticleWhat is the Working Class?
In an excellent diary on embracing your class I was surprised to discover that many kossacks seem to have a very poor understanding of what class, and working class in particular, is. This concept is...
View ArticleGoing Green: I Hate Mowing My Lawn
I really do. I just don't get the point of lawns. I'd much rather be doing research or watching a movie or arguing with my fellow idiots here at dailykos. It's probably in this context that an idea...
View ArticleAn Apology to the Community
Yesterday I said things of which I am ashamed and that I believe were borderline racist. I suggested that many black people only support him because of the color of his skin, that they are less than...
View ArticleChristianity by the Numbers
I often hear progressive Christians here accuse atheists and oppressed GLBT folk of "painting with a broad brush" when making generalizations about Christians. As a consequence, I decided to look into...
View ArticleProgressive Christians: I Don't Care About Your BELIEFS
I really don't. I'm GLAD that you're progressives. If these political commitments come from your religion that's great. I have no desire to get in arguments with you about whether or not God exists....
View ArticleWhat I Learned From My Religion Diary
After my last diary and the nearly six hundred comments that followed, I learned some very interesting things about the attitudes of progressive Christians here on Dailykos. Follow me below the fold...
View ArticleThe Party of Prohibition
The great philosopher describes the right, not the left, as the side of prohibition. As I write this, earlier today this post was on the rec list, comparing Wiener's sending of photos as an act of...
View ArticleUPDATED: What is Neoliberalism?
Yesterday Cassiodorus wrote an excellent, albeit polemical, diary addressed to the neoliberals on this site. Within this diary and in other diaries where neoliberalism comes up, I noted that a number...
View ArticleWhat Are You Trying to Accomplish?
This is the question that wracks my mind. As I listen to the way in which ardent Obama supporters talk about progressives, I find myself completely baffled as to what they're trying to accomplish. In...
View ArticleListen to Country Music: The Conservative Mind
So today, as I listened to the new NPR radio station (great!) and the music playing on the station at the restaurant I was eating at I had an epiphany. At the outset, I wish to say that I do not wish...
View ArticleReligion and Love of the Neighbor
Today I received an email from one of my rightwing, religious fundamentalist college students telling me that God loves me, that Scripture is the Truth and way, that God wants me to love him and that I...
View ArticleOn the Nature of Terrorism
Although I was disturbed about the cheering and chanting I witnessed last night in response to the death of Osama bin Laden, this weekend was nonetheless a great day for America and the world. Obama...
View ArticleWhat is the Working Class?
In an excellent diary on embracing your class I was surprised to discover that many kossacks seem to have a very poor understanding of what class, and working class in particular, is. This concept is...
View ArticleGoing Green: I Hate Mowing My Lawn
I really do. I just don't get the point of lawns. I'd much rather be doing research or watching a movie or arguing with my fellow idiots here at dailykos. It's probably in this context that an idea...
View ArticleAn Apology to the Community
Yesterday I said things of which I am ashamed and that I believe were borderline racist. I suggested that many black people only support him because of the color of his skin, that they are less than...
View ArticleChristianity by the Numbers
I often hear progressive Christians here accuse atheists and oppressed GLBT folk of "painting with a broad brush" when making generalizations about Christians. As a consequence, I decided to look into...
View ArticleProgressive Christians: I Don't Care About Your BELIEFS
I really don't. I'm GLAD that you're progressives. If these political commitments come from your religion that's great. I have no desire to get in arguments with you about whether or not God exists....
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