Please tell me Randi Rhodes is being facetious

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Wednesday August 29, 2007 · 2:16 PM PDT

2007/08/29 · 14:16

ADDED: Thank you, Kossacks, for reassuring me. I promise you, I wasn't trying to burn Randi by any insinuation, nor am I one of Stephanie Miller's so-called humorless, "stick-up-the-butt liberals." I get touchy with gay jokes, and didn't pick up her snark. Anyway, on with the diary.

I guess I've assumed that Randi Rhodes has a large gay listenership, but maybe I'm wrong. Stephanie Miller's got the demographic locked up, and from today's show, I'm not so sure Randi's getting the gay vote. She's sure not getting mine.

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 7:35 PM PST

2006/11/03 · 19:35

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a diary about Websense, the Internet filtering software, and its effect on my workplace. To recap, I'm a state employee. Specifically, I'm a correctional librarian, and as such, restriction of certain forms of information is the law of the land. Most of the time, this is for the better (preventing inmates from having access to dangerous materials, gang literature, The Anarchist's Cookbook, etc). With staff access to information being severely curtailed, however, this restriction is definitely a change for the worse.

I'd like to let you all know what I discovered about my employer's Websense policy.

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Websense finally got me

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 6:23 PM PDT

2006/10/20 · 18:23

First Websense and the Internet Police came for the fantasy football, and I didn't speak up,
because my league isn't really that active from Tuesday through Friday anyway.

Then they came for the message boards, and I didn't speak up,
because I didn't really need constant updates on the latest developments in the world of Uglydolls.

Then they came for the sports sites, but then gave those back because all the red-blooded males
couldn't handle being away from the NFL Power Rankings for that long.

Then they came for Daily Kos, and by that point I had almost stopped noticing because so much had
already been taken away from me.

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The Parable of the Broken Jar

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 11:49 AM PDT

2006/09/29 · 11:49

I live in a broken jar. My essence, usually contained comfortably within the confines of this jar, is slowly leaking away. I am weakened by this faulty jar, but it is my home. It is where I feel I most belong. Read More

Fight.

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 5:30 PM PDT

2006/09/28 · 17:30

Forgive this moment of diary-pique, but I'm frustrated. I've been banging heads with some folks who seems to think that, if we use our outrage about the torture vote to strengthen our resolve to take back the Congress in November, we're being centrist, "cozy with the Republicans," or proud of our government's policy on torture.

So with your forgiveness, I'd like to use this diary to express my frustration in its fullness.

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WI-Gov: Green (R) still can't use his PAC money

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 11:56 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 11:56

The Dane County (Wisconsin) Circuit Court just ruled that Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green cannot use the out-of-state money he collected as a Representative in his campaign for the Wisconsin governor's mansion.

The State Elections Board already determined that such use would be illegal. Of course, Mark Green didn't want to follow that rule.

Now, the courts have duly affirmed the Elections Board's ruling. Of course, he's going to appeal again.

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The end of plastic as we know it

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 9:46 AM PDT

2006/09/15 · 09:46

This is not "new" news, but I just heard a news clip about it on the local progressive station in Madison, Wisconsin. Once again, it highlights the value of a healthy state university system, and gives one more pat on the back to the University of Wisconsin for fighting the scientific good fight.

The discovery this time? How to make plastic out of something that grows out of the ground, rather than something pumped out.

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What I'll do to Disney

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Friday September 08, 2006 · 8:15 PM PDT

2006/09/08 · 20:15

I'm sure I'm not the only person to apologize for writing a duplicate diary about "The Path to 9/11." Nevertheless, please accept my apologies for the following diary, as it is little than a self-centered announcement of my plan to punish Disney if they do not pull "The Path to 9/11" from their broadcast schedule.

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Bush, International Crime Fighter

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 9:18 AM PDT

2006/08/18 · 09:18

President George W. Bush addressed the media today, and discussed the recent arrest of John Mark Karr in connection to the decade-old murder of Jon Benet Ramsey.

His remarks follow.

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Chicago carnivores angry at torture ban

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Monday August 14, 2006 · 9:02 AM PDT

2006/08/14 · 09:02

...protecting geese. Okay, the headline is a little vague. Cut me some slack, I have to draw you in to this story, right?

First, I have to confess: normally, I wouldn't link to a PETA page. I'm not crazy about their tactics, even if their motives are honorable. I don't think everyone should be a vegetarian, and I don't think regular old meat eaters (me) should be held to the same degree of scorn as, say, people who commit murder (not me).

However, I've been enlightened recently to the reality of foie gras, and I think Chicago's forthcoming ban on foie gras is both admirable and appropriate.

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My Wisconsin family and the liberal awakening

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Wednesday July 19, 2006 · 10:58 AM PDT

2006/07/19 · 10:58

(inspired by Miss Blue's Red Cow Truck)

Wisconsin is, I think, as emblematic as Ohio or Montana of the growing realization that blind party affiliation is not the way to elect a government. It is the ideas that matter.

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Hitler fever, or, Someone's missing the point

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 8:19 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 08:19

Some of our favorite talking (bone)heads have been dropping the H-bomb all over the airwaves lately. Political discourse is de-evolving rapidly into a Fark comment thread.

Let's give Media Matters a hand as we choke down a little Godwinism from the wingnuts.

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