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attribution: GreyHawk Summer has arrived, and with that the associated shifts in time & availability that accompany the change of seasons: some areas of home & work shift into high gear, others...
View ArticleDrunken Bloggin'
What do the following folks have in common, aside from their known association with online blogs and involvment in progressive activism?Sharoneymem from...
View ArticleFoundations cast in stone and spirit: NAICOB
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View Article♥Giant Donuts♥ And As Always, More♥
Netroots Nation A Political Convention for American Progressive Political Activists, originally organized by Readers and Writers of Daily Kos. WikipediaNN 2014 Thursday July 17, 9 AM To Sunday July 20,...
View ArticleProgressive Pursuits: For Markos, Daily Kos, Nolan, Raven, Netroots Nation & AZ
The news broke, and was reiterated by the recent FP post by Markos - NN has announced Phoenix, AZ, as the location for NN15. And Markos has stated that Daily Kos will not be going to, nor supporting,...
View Article"We're still here" - for now: NAICOB Fundraiser
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View ArticleClimate Change and Geotherapy: Two Conferences, Two Workshops, and Another...
I’ve been going to public lectures on climate change at Harvard, MIT, and other places since at least 1980. Lately I’ve been thinking that I have yet to hear an ecologist talk about the subject. I’ve...
View ArticleClerks, Truckers, and Executives STRIKE on BEHALF of Ousted CEO!
It's been called a David vs. Goliath story, a "Tale of Two Arthurs" and even the "ultimate Greek tragedy," but the characters in this drama are not Biblical or literary figures. They're grocery store...
View ArticleNAICOB Regeneration Crowdfunding Challenge: "Two for Tuesday"
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View ArticleWhere Worlds Collide: Hearth & Home, Culture and Soul
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraiser - Help NAICOB
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View ArticleGov. Patrick Signs New Gun Legislation
FINALLY!! I've been waiting for this! I only wonder why it took so long?The legislation allows police chiefs to ask courts to deny firearms identification cards needed to buy guns to individuals they...
View ArticleFormer White House press secretary Jim Brady dies
at Yahoo NewsWASHINGTON (AP) — James Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a...
View ArticleThere are only s̶i̶x̶̶(̶6̶)̶ FIVE days left!
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View ArticleNext BosKos & NE Kossack Meetup - Sat 27 Sept 2014
BosKos meetups - they're kinda special. We've met at the the border, where we dined on TexMex, and we met on the waterfront, where we confronted barking crabs during a blizzard. We've even been...
View Article"Maximum Woo" - Unclear on the concept (A Woo Tale)
Well, Max got a job. You may be familiar with him - he's the Husky who entered our lives about a year after we lost Malamute Jack. He's a very gentle, easy-going young adult who had been to two...
View ArticleKosAbility Upcoming Schedule + MedicalJournal Links on Depression, Anxiety,...
We meet Sundays 7pm eastkost time/4pm leftkost, 3 or so hrs to fit a part of everyone's afternoon/evening. We also pub & republish diaries over the week:kosmail to one of our active...
View ArticleBosKos @ Applebee's - 27 September 2014
It's that time again - time for pedestrians to stay off the streets and sidewalks. Time for low-flying aircraft to take the long way 'round. Time for alien invaders, foreign & domestic terrorists,...
View ArticleEchoes and Repurcussions
It was less than a decade ago that a Republican Congressman aptly described the abdication of responsibility by Congress as a 'deep shallow', and in the years since we have seen the exponential...
View ArticleWalker Administration/WI DOJ appealing 120 Sing Along tickets that were...
I haven't offered an update on the Solidarity Sing Along in a while, but it is still going strong. The sing along is a noon-hour singing protest that has occurred at the Wisconsin State Capitol every...
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