I Am Atrios
Bloggy goodness a' la Melanie will be in short supply this afternoon. I have an interview here. They are looking for a Director of Development and I have some ideas about using New Media, like blogs,...
View ArticleRamadan Mubarak!
Since 1995, I've been an ESL tutor for the Literacy Council of Northern Virgina. I work with the Afghan refugee community here in the DC 'burbs. Teaching is hard during Ramadan. My students are tired,...
View ArticleComings and Goings
Funny, didn't see anything about this in the WaPo this morning. I picked this up from the always-helpful War in ContextPentagon Hawk Released -- Straws in the Wind? Analysis - By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON,...
View ArticleIs It News If It's Not Reported?
Juan Cole was up late last night:Rail, Old Baghdad ExplosionsGuerrillas sabotaged a US military train shipment near Haditha west of Baghdad on Thursday, after which the shipment was looted of...
View ArticleThis is a Real War
Found this at the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau: Posted on Thu, Oct. 30, 2003U.S. warned of more suicide attacks in Iraq By Drew Brown Knight Ridder NewspapersBAGHDAD, Iraq - Rumors are swirling...
View Article"Strict Father, Nurturant Mother"
One of the writers in the blogosphere I most admire is Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul. She combines "Bobby Kennedy" liberalism (a paleo-lib like me) with compassion and a deep understanding of the...
View Article"Talk" with the Candidates
The Washington Post is hosting live on-line chats with each of the Democratic presidential hopefuls, starting on Monday with Rep. Richard Gephardt. Times vary, so treat this as a bookmark. I've...
View ArticleWar Inside the Beltway
After looking at so many papers that I feel positively dizzy, I'm not seeing much that advances any of the stories we've been looking at over the last couple of weeks. The electronic media is either...
View ArticleFamily Values
New York Times tomorrow.Daughter Spurs Gephardt's Changed View on Gays By RACHEL L. SWARNS Published: November 1, 2003WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The first hint of the unexpected was in the annual Christmas...
View ArticleWhen the Lightbulb Goes On...
I had to swap out a bunch of lightbulbs before I went to sleep last night. Both bathrooms had lost a couple and the tracklight in the kitchen required a specialty fix. I hate that, these things cost...
View ArticleWar. What is it Good for?
CentCom now reports via CNN that the death toll is up to 16.U.S. helicopter shot down in Iraq Sunday, November 2, 2003 Posted: 1245 GMT ( 8:45 PM HKT)BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. death toll from a...
View ArticleEmotional Framing
The Bad News Is Good News for Democrats By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS Published: October 30, 2003WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Iraq is a mess, the world resents America and its debt-burdened economy is an...
View ArticleA Uniter Not a Divider?
When Markos invited me to join the guest post team, I made a conscious decision to bring up religion. I'm not here to be a Christian apologist, but religion is my profession, it's what I've chosen to...
View ArticleCommunity News and Open Thread
Well, events have overtaken us. (Jeebus, I hope you aren't still feeding ice chips to Elisa, Kos. That would be one hell of a long labor.) A wise minister once told me, you don't have a community...
View ArticleThe Forgotten War
With the dramatic events in Iraq this weekend, it's easy to forget we've got boots on the ground in another difficult piece of geography. Is this good news?Afghanistan unveils draft constitution...
View ArticleDemocrats for Security and Peace
One of the standard knocks on Democrats (not that it's true, but it is a meme all of our candidates will have to fight) is that we are "weak" (whatever that means) on security and defense issues. It's...
View ArticleOPEN THREAD
We have a new baby and a parent gone, in less than 24 hours. This is real life here at the Kos. Open thread.
View ArticleOff-Year Elections
It's election day in a number of states, including the Commonwealth of Virginia. This is the place to comment.All 140 seats of the General Assembly are on Virginia's ballot today, as well as all the...
View ArticleReturn of the Draft?
Several commentors have posted this website for the Selective Service Administration. They are recruiting volunteers to fill the vacancies on local draft boards. In Salon yesterday:Oiling up the...
View ArticleA Political Disaster on Both Sides of the Atlantic
The Deluge of Disaster in Iraq has begun. There is so much news that there is no point in trying to aggregate it here. I check at least once a day at Paul Woodward's excellent The War in Context....
View ArticleChandler Falls; Now What?
Republican Wins Kentucky Governor Race By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 4, 2003 Filed at 8:49 p.m. ETRep. Ernie Fletcher easily won the Kentucky governor's race Tuesday, becoming the first...
View ArticleSolidarity Forever
(Google search went to Free Republic, so no link.) Reuters Weather Lifts Retail Sales, Profit Hopes Thursday August 7, 8:02 am ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - A long-overdue stretch of warm weather across parts...
View ArticleThe Public Awakens
Don't call them "sheeple." Survey Shows Skepticism About Iraq Most Americans Polled Don't Believe Conflict Is Key Fight in War on Terrorism By Dana Milbank and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff...
View ArticleAbortion Wars
Bush signs ban on late-term abortion Nebraska judge raises constitutional questions Wednesday, November 5, 2003 Posted: 2017 GMT ( 4:17 AM HKT)WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed legislation...
View ArticleThe Rocky Debate
WaPo Op-Ed writer Richard Cohen will not often find himself on the Daily Kos front page. He is frequently silly, a "shorter Tom Friedman," but this morning he opens up the Rock the Vote debate in a...
View ArticleVast Right Wing Conspiracy
New Ph.D Eric Alterman has a new gig and a new weekly column at the Center for American Progress (which has so many goodies for progressives that it earned an immediate bookmark) along with his daily...
View ArticleFacts Are Stubborn Things
Two stories here which, when taken together, fail to reveal the good news that the schools are open in Iraq. Insurgents gain a deadly edge in intelligence By John Diamond, Steven Komarow and Kevin...
View ArticleDangerous Ideas
Wesley, Wesley, How I long to love you but you are making it so difficult. His plan for Iraq is A new course needed in Iraq By Wesley Clark, 11/6/2003MY 34 YEARS in the Army taught me to steel my...
View ArticlePinning the Meter
I received an email from a Kossak last night which read, in part,"...Just think -- another 500 and something votes in Florida and we could be living in a normal country right now . . ." We're not...
View ArticleFinding the Way Out
Wesley Clark gave the annual Morgenthau lecture to the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs earlier this year. In the course of his remarks he said:When do we use force? Under the...
View ArticleThe War Between Cats and Dogs
We need to lighten up. Here is something for the wars between the cat and the dog people, as partisan groups of humans as you will ever find. (Kos, pay attention to this. At some point, Ari is going...
View ArticleIt's Time for the New Boss
U.S. Plan to Transfer Power In Iraq May Shift Drastically By Colum Lynch and Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, February 6, 2004; Page A17 UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. plan to...
View ArticleProfessional Ethics
Rev. Jim Wallis speaks truth to power:But in a new national poll, an overwhelming percentage of voters see it another way. A poll commissioned by The Alliance to End Hunger and Call to Renewal was...
View ArticleTenet Begins His Subtle Spill
CIA director disputes Cheney assertions on Iraq By Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder NewspapersWASHINGTON - CIA Director George Tenet on Tuesday rejected recent assertions by Vice President Dick Cheney...
View ArticleSage of the Heartland
Minnesota Zen master Born in the Midwest to a fundamentalist Christian family which frowned on entertainment, Garrison Keillor's main ambition was to write. But he first worked as a radio presenter and...
View ArticleVoices for Peace
Dover to D.C. Procession: March 14-15Mourn the Dead, Heal the Wounded, End the War
View ArticleLiberal PBS?
PBS Gets Picky A Reporter Disses Halliburton, and Newshour Producers Decide His 15 Minutes of Airtime Are Up March 17 - 23, 2004In a recent Nation cover story, Christian Parenti described hanging out...
View ArticleBlitzer World
While CNN was whipping up the mobs on Friday with "breaking news" all over the place and cancelling their scheduled program to follow the snipe hunt/Afghan branch ("Might be Ayman...
View ArticleDo The Right Thing
Terry Mattingly and Douglas LeBlanc are GetReligion, a blog which fact-checks religion stories in the secular press. In yesterday's post, Terry did an excellent job of laying out the facts and context...
View ArticleA Better World
I'm having a problem. I want to blog MoDo's column because she actually scores some decent points. She also makes an ass out of herself a couple of times and asks her readers to play along, which...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End
The wheels are starting to come off. These are the first three stories at the top of Sean-Paul Kelly's excellent blog The Agonist tonight:New Details Emerging From Early in the White House About Plans...
View ArticleLove Song
My nerve endings went on strike years ago, Thank you for lending me yours. I'll try to return them in good shape But I warn you I walk into things I move too fast, I am Not careful. Clumsy, As I rush...
View ArticleNew Poem
IN THE QUIET My skin comes alive and electrifies everything Around it. I can turn the stove on with a passing touch. The cats look like puffed out toys, the computer is shedding sparks. I think I...
View ArticleAmerican Myths
I listen to CNN's "Crossfire" most afternoons, not for enlightenment, but to hear the pure and distilled RNC talking points for the day. They were delivered yesterda by the always loathsome Robert...
View ArticleThe Turn from Human to Monster
Josh Marshall's column in The Hill:When a picture doesn't tell the whole storyLet's start by discussing what's in the pictures: limited violence against detainees, the use of nudity and sexual...
View ArticleTo Hold the Universe in Your Hands
This is a delightful appreciation of poet Pablo Neruda, a personal favorite of yer diaryhostess, who has been known to practice the dark art herself. Even published a few in the "little journals." You...
View ArticleEensie Weensie Spider
Not to Fall The tiny spider with long legs stepped her way up the side of my computer desk, she stepped like a promenade left square dancer, it was that stately. At the corner, she made string and...
View Article"Everything is Changed"
I posted this last night on my site, Just a Bump in the Beltway, and it sparked a thoughtful conversation. I thought I'd bring it over here to see what my fellow Kossaks would say. I want to linger a...
View ArticleDeeper Questions
In an email earlier today, Kevin Hayden of The American Street asked me if I'd be willing to get into a discussion with him about blogging, writing and why we do it. This is an exercise a number of...
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