Global Climate Week Seattle Action: Delivering a Divestment Petition to Gates...
Over the weekend I realized that the week of global climate action has started. Frantically I looked up 350.org for local Seattle events, and was surprised to see no mass rally planned for the weekend....
View ArticleW/UPDATE: Bernie Fans' Overreach Triggers Massive Kossack Backlash
Will my click-bait works? We will soon know… I’m usually pretty bad at baiting. But no, this is not a click-bait diary. There is some substantial news to share here.Remember the Daily Kos Primary Straw...
View ArticleIf you MUST have a sports analogy for the Dem Primaries... then try to use an...
Elections bring out two amusing American cultural tendencies: The prevailing view of numbers and math as magical creatures, rather than common-sense tools for understanding the world, and The...
View ArticleOk, Let me make it REALLY Simple.
On March 4, kos announced an upcoming narrowing of the spectrum of tolerated discourse on this site, with a particular focus on “malicious criticism” against Hillary Clinton. All this, conditional upon...
View ArticleOur Family Just Caucused 4-0 for Bernie!
...which accounted for over half Bernie’s margin in our precinct! But our precinct still went 2-2 in its delegates.Before my long tale, a bad word or two to the state Dem party and its insistence on...
View ArticleOmega Block: April 18 Rainiest Day Ever in Houston, Hottest April Day Ever in...
...Today in other non-Rox/Sux news... several people have already died from historic flooding in Houston — today has been the region’s rainiest day on record, topping 400mm before midday at some...
View Article"Recalculating Path"... In May, Bernie's fallen 13+ delegates behind "Updated...
Congratulations to Bernie for his WV victory tonight, his most impressive thus far this month (likely to be surpassed in Oregon, tonight’s outlier poll notwithstanding).To put it in context, though, I...
View ArticleBREAKING: Leadsom quits Tory leadership race. Theresa May to become British...
Like bowling pins, all prominent figures in the Brexit “Leave EU” campaign, have fallen out of leadership roles within a couple of weeks of winning the Brexit vote, toppling each other in...
View ArticleNo Garrison Keillor, White Liberals CANNOT Go "grow heirloom tomatoes" for 4...
I will be uncharacteristically short.A diarist whom I greatly appreciate, has just posted Garrison Keillor’s first response to Trump’s victory.I like Keillor, and therefore originally recced the diary....
View ArticleHow does "Failing to offer a Compelling Choice" REALLY Look like?
As more details emerge about Hillary’s narrow loss, it seems at least part of it was due to less-than-expected turnout, and/or higher-than-expected small-party vote, among some of our base in key...
View ArticleHistory Tells Us It's Not Hillary; White Voters Have Distrusted Democrats for...
One thing that I feel is missing from all the discussions about Hillary's loss is straightforward historical context, starting with numbers. Most comparisons stop at 2012. Looking further back reveals...
View ArticlePunch the Oil Drumpf in the Face! Switch to an Electric Vehicle NOW. (1)...
“Bring it on”, say Drumpf and his Team of Deplorables, declaring war on all that is decent in America within the space of one week. This is a multi-front war, and we must play full-court-press defense...
View ArticleWe Should Pressure Gorsuch Himself to Withdraw. A Judge Knows Better than...
This will be quick and short, and hopefully helpful.All the uproar and energy isaround whether Democratic Senators will fight. They should damn right fight like Hell. But we are forgetting one other...
View ArticleResist this Oil Regime! Switch to an Electric Vehicle Now. (2) Great New...
Finally, the promised sequel to Part 1 is here. These two diaries are a quick, (humbly) not-too-shabby “Current Best-Value EV Options” consumer guide.HOWEVER. My main message is in the title: switching...
View ArticleWhere we have Vision, we Win.
This is a quick follow-up/response to Muskegon Critic's excellent and thought-provoking diary. In case you haven’t read it (please do!), it argues that Demcorats/Liberals/Progressives are now losing...
View Article#RESIST by Plugging-in, Mid-17 Update: Exciting Premiere and amazing Closeout
In a pair of diaries right after 45*’s inauguration, I made the case that getting an electric car has now become not only a viable environmental option, but a necessary act of resistance.It’s the...
View ArticlePruitt Forces EPA to Undermine Tribal Sovereignty on Clean Water
The information provided below is 100% confirmed, but for obvious reasons I cannot divulge identifying details.Native American nations have many guaranteed autonomous rights on par with a state....
View Article#RBPI Vol. 3 (8/2017): Tesla and the Art of Fine Print
#RBPI (#RESIST-by-Plugging-in) diaries expand awareness that: Plug-in vehicles (a.k.a. electric cars or EVs) are a viable and attractive option in many segments of the US new and used auto market. When...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Mediterranean in Seattle
The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...
View Article#RBPi Vol. 4 (9-10/2017): Is 150 miles a good bargain? How about 107 miles?
#RBPi (#RESIST-by-Plugging-in) diaries expand awareness that: When the government is run by oil interests and global-warming deniers, switching to a Plug-in vehicle (a.k.a. electric car or EV) becomes...
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