Doggone

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )

• Job-ortion

  

  I'm sick of the ignorant right wing culture wars, especially the war on women. Right wing policies are hell on economic growth and job creation, so maybe we... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Kiera Wilmot Bottle Bomb Incident - I Relate, but Disagree

  cross-posted from IVN: Share 0inShare More Sharing ServicesShare on printShare on email In the past month or so, I was intrigued by the story as it was... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The United States Corporate Flag, Revisited

  

  Flag day was last Friday, June 14 2013. As we see the role of corporations engaging in public corruption of our elective and legislative processes, it is worth... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Changing How We Conduct Elections

  

  Cross-posted from MN PP: Minneapolis has gone to ranked voting, which has so far appeared to be successful. Maybe we should consider this for our other... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Times, They Are a Changing

  Conservatives don't do well with change; they are the antithesis to change, and to progress of any kind. To conservatives, the status quo is, if not perfect,... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• If You REALLY Honor Dads...

  

  My heart goes out to all of the parents who six months ago were coping with the loss the day before of their children. In their honor and in the honor of all th... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Fathers of the Sandy Hook Kids Are Grieving, While the NRA Buys Their Way Ou...

  

  Special Interest Corruption is killing our kids, and our adults, every day. Sometimes it is one at a time, sometimes it is groups. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fact Check.org Busts More Fact Failures by Right Wing Obama Bashers

  

  This entity changed one failed fact for a different failed fact. There was no political sabotage by the IRS; there was only compliance with a law which did not... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Graduation Rates in Minnesota: The Good, the Bad, and the Budget

  

  Cross Posted from MN Political Roundtable: The EPE Research Center, part of the non-profit Education Week came out with their latest report on our high school... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What Would You Do? Sex, Empowerment and Education

  What would you do? Even as a child, I tended to be aggressive in seeking what I considered to be effective solutions (or as my parents sometimes put it... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 DEBATE, LOVE & SEX, SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• I Love 'ifls'

  

  For those who do not distinguish properly between the various developmental stages of a pregnancy pertaining to correct terminology, the stages of conceptus... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• On My Honor, I Swear...

  My friend (DG) asked me to comment on the current scandal (or as I would call it, extraordinarily disgusting and massive national embarrsment) involving the US... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• For Pen, and for Peggy Noonan: We Need a Second Godwin's Law for Watergate

  

  I hereby inaugurate the Penigma law.Peggy Noonan did something stupid, one of a number of stupid mistakes she has made; it was a glaring and embarrassing... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Disinformation (a Fancy Word for LYING)

  

  Estimates put the figure of how much the right has spent to try to lie to people about Obamacare aka the ACA at around $400 million +. But it isn't working. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• On This Day in 1968 Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated

  

  On this day in 1968, then-Senator for New York Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen of a California hotel after winning the California presidential... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Heartless Hypocrites with Neither Values nor Ethics Factcheck.org Busts...

  Every time you hear a conservative say they are pro-life, especially INNOCENT life, they are liars. What they are is pro-forced birth. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Just Curious About the “get Away with Murder” Laws

  Yet another wrinkle in the assertion that the Second Amendment in some way allows for “self-Defence”: The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• HPV Vaccine - Not Just for Girls

  

  The news came out this morning that the actor Michael Douglas, son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, contracted throat cancer from the HPV virus, which CAN BE... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Failed Right Wing Economic Policies - They Just Don't Get It.

  

  Supply side economics is an over-sized crock of crap. Always has been; always will be. If there is no market, there is no capitalism. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Buh Bye to the Bad Joke from Minnesota

  

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  Posted on 02 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY