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Memes We Should Promote: Taxation is Good

Even more alarmingly, Putnam County, TN, is in such dire straights it has considered doing away with county primary elections: SoBe is at it again, with another powerhouse common sense post. Be sure to check out the graph, although I suspect most ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  23 Oct 2009

Privatizing Paula

Look out Paula! Looks like you've got some competition. Although, I confess to being curious: which of you will be better hunting down embarrassing blog comments posted by your boss' political enemies? Shutting down bloggers focused upon issues the ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  AFL-CIO,  Bill Moyers,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Fall Food and Flowers

Always good this time of year, and the leaves will turn the most incredible shade of purple as it cools. Shockingly golden orange, for right now. I'll keep splitting this baby in the spring, year after year. They are so satisfying, for color balance in ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  15 Oct 2009

Food Fight III: Father

it's a class marker. non-elite women serve the "whore" function, it's how the elites define non-elites when not defining us "baby oven" or "handmaiden." elites can pay to have the real thing made, and it sets them apart, special. the semi-celebrity ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  14 Oct 2009

Humpday Sci Fi Musings

What do you think intelligent alien life would make of us? I'm a big scifi reader, and I've read countless stories about this question. Seems to me most of the time, writers posit one of two things. Either they would be highly advanced, ethically and ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  14 Oct 2009

Dan Savage and "Activism"

People don't go to demonstrations or marches to be talked to death, they don't go to be harangued, they don't go to listen—God forbid—to poetry. They show up because they want to do something, they want to do something themselves, they want to take ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dan Savage,  US Food and Drug Administration,  Jesse Helms

Regulation: So Last Century

Meet the newest addition to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. If you've been reading Mother Jones recently, then you already know quite a bit about Scott O'Malia. Like the fact that he once worked as a top in-house lobbyist for an energy ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Commodity Futures Trading Commission,  Mother Jones,  Mirant Corp,  Enron Corporation,  Barack Obama

Food Fight II: Fat

So I guess I hit a nerve with my food fight post, or rather, several of them. I think it's worth breaking down some of the comments and sub-discussions into a longer series. One topic that seemed to bring out the very Correntian best in folks: how we ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  12 Oct 2009

Food Fight!

Tristero recently caused a bona fide flame war at the normally staid and Serious Hullaballoo comment community, in those two posts about food. I didn't really find too much of what he said outrageous or stupid, and I respect the fact that he came right ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  10 Oct 2009

Things that Make You Go "Hmmm"

It's probably just me. But still, of course it makes me wonder. Just now, here at Chez Dyke, a lot of blogs aren't working for me. That is, I can load them, but the comment functions don't seem to be enabled. I'm no intertube expert, I have no idea how ...

From CHICAGO DYKE, Corrente,  9 Oct 2009

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