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If you say so.

saw which direction this board was headed. You DID gang up on people who were NOT expressing racist or conservative attitudes and were inexcusably crude to them, and when Tinoire--whom I've always...

:-(

I'm done.

Yes, I'm taking a breather, but it was the recent influx of new-old members that made my decision final.

I judge people by how they treat their potential allies, and frankly, the reintroduction of...

Yes, capitalism has made it worse, but the Communists were no saints in this respect, either.

I thought the same thing about the Republicans in 2008. They had to know that only their most rabid followers would choose an ailing old man and a noticeably dim-witted woman to lead the country.
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I hope you're sending these to Op-Ed News or other places where they'll get a wider audience.

the responses from certain posters have been over the top nasty.

You've been one of the best posters here and on DU, but some of the responses from the group you're defending have matched the...

You know everything, as only a "kid" can. I bow to your superior wisdom. Have fun shit stirring.

nasty, childish, sexist insults and copy-pastes of articles on Marxism?

(due to being part Latvian, I heard all about the dastardly Communists) to liberal (the fact that professors I respected were part of the anti-war movement made me rethink my previous position) to...

about what we're spending for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Hey! I know where the money could come from!

being one of the people screwed over by the system (high monthly premiums and high deductibles and copays after the deductible--such is the lot of the self-employed person over 50).

I don't think...

...lindisfarne, shill for the insurance companies?

If they're entirely in the company of their own kind and hopping from American-style hotel to American-style hotel, they're going to see an entirely different country than someone who associates with...

Serfdom had been abolished only at about the same time as slavery in the U.S., but there was still a de facto master-servant relationship between the landowners and their former "souls" (That's how...

(other than the authoritarian types who want a radio ranter to tell them what to think) being much farther left than the supposedly "left-wing" New York Times and miles farther left than 95% of...

I wasn't at all surprised that he'd died. I was surprised that he was FIFTY. And that was the end of my concern.

9.Bill Appledorf
San Francisco
June 26th, 2009
6:30 am
Why are we fighting with giant corporations who are in the business of ripping everybody off? Why do they own our government? Why are we...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Krugman is disappointed enough, but the readers are furious.

Here's a typical response:

If the Democrats and the...

A movie called The Stoning of Soraya M is being released in the U.S. this weekend. It's being shown as an "art house" movie, but the Minneapolis theater chain that usually shows such films is putting...

"He's such an idiot!"--referring to Bush of course. Then there were the naive ones who said things like, "This would never have happened under President Gore/Kerry/Obama."

Oh really? Gore, who was...

attend DeFazio's pizza and beer fundraisers, $35 a person, no nonsense about buying "access" with $2000 contributions.

By the way, the whole "cap and trade" system sounded like a swindle even...

on both the K-12 and college levels.

The three elementary schools I attended in the1950s got along with a teacher or two for each grade, one principal, the principal's secretary, and a janitor or...

In the first version of the essay, I called them the Greens, but I decided that the Greens didn't have what it took, so I referred to the hypothetical leftist party as The Lefties.