Final Predictions (Or the Reason I'm not doing my homework right now)
There have been many final predictions, many seeking bragging rights. I initially just posted mine as a comment, but was encouraged to make a diary out of them, so here it is:
View ArticleThe "Silver Fox" Edwin Edwards and Louisiana Political History
I wanted to bring back some old political history, simply to fulfill folks curiosity. Everyone here has probably heard of Edwin Edwards, of "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in...
View ArticleBooks go Boom! Poetry of Japan: Then and Now
I have written about many books, and attempted to introduce people to many authors of fiction whose work held special appeal to me, particularly within the deeply underappreciated field of Japanese...
View ArticleFox News: Science Says Woman Aren't Supposed to Work and Earn Money
It's been a while since I've done an impulse micro-diary, but today for the first time a while, I saw something so egregious that I wanted to share it.
View ArticleBooks Go Boom! Guns, Germs and Steel
Well, I am back again, (this time a week early due to Brecht's generosity and my own conflation of dates), and I'm again doing something a little different. In fact, for me, this project was something...
View ArticleBooks Go Boom: Colonization and Independence in the Works of Achebe and Fanon
Coming into what I believe is my last guest appearance on Brecht's Books go Boom! series, I decided to push the envelope, this time combining a pair of responses I'd been meaning to write forever on...
View ArticleBooks Go Boom! The Painted Bird and Holocaust Fiction
Well, for what may be my last Books go Boom contribution (grad school is starting up and I'm also thinking about trying to start my own, bi-monthly series), I decided to do a more conventional project...
View ArticleAs You Like It: A Special Election for Neil Riser in LA-05
U.S. Representative Rodney Alexander, the most senior member of Louisiana's House delegation, and infamous for his rude and disrespectful, dishonest party switch in 2004, minutes before the filing...
View ArticleLA-05 Election Results
Just over one month ago, on Saturday November 16th, Louisiana's Fifth Congressional district held a runoff to replace Rodney Alexander, who had stunned political observers several months earlier by, in...
View ArticleObligatory Final 2014 Prediections (Plus LA-SEN Parish Benchmarks)
"No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to acheive some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But...
View ArticleAre you Sh*tting Me? I'm tired of the Democratic Primary Already
The fervent stream of hyperbolic Clinton hate just continues to build up, to exhausting levels of Bullshit. Now let me, who was an early supporter and avid early advocate of Barack Obama outline why...
View ArticleThe Long Post - Rambles for Hillary Supporters and Why We Don't "Feel the Bern"
There is something juvenile about debating politics in the ways that we debate on online forums. It reminds of me a schoolyard playground where we insult each other, throw names and do the political...
View ArticleA Message in Vernacular to Hillary Supporters: Quit Being Asses
I’m going to keep this short. I am not in the Bernie Camp. I’ve posted some pretty critical accounts of Sanders supporters and the arguments they use and the way they portray both Hillary Clinton and...
View ArticleAre we a reality-based community? Then here is reality: Bernie Sanders Lost...
Let me speak here first and foremost as a proponent of sound, logical assessments and outlines of fact based reality that Dkos prides itself on. Two caveats: First, I am NOT saying Sanders should drop...
View ArticleShame on you for using Berta Cáceres legacy for your own cheap talking points
I’m going to be quick here: I’m fucking repulsed. The news of environmentalist and indigenous leader Berta Cáceres’ assassination at the hands of thugs in Honduras was only just out when Sanders...
View ArticleWarning: Bubble Bursting Ahead
This isn't the diary I intended to be writing next, and in any case I am under the weather with a cold. But I was just going to note that today’s primary’s went exactly how I projected after Super...
View ArticleElectoral Math Continued: Bernie Gets His Big Upset
First I gotta congratulate Bernie on his huge upset in Michigan. It’s a testament to how his campaign can close hard when they go all in and contest with 110% of their energy and resources. Polls were...
View ArticleWHAT TO EXPECT: Super Tuesday 2: Electric Boogaloo -- Clinton still favored
I am returning to write a bit about the primaries on Tuesday, starting with a brief guide to Illinois, which is, along with Ohio, the big prize tomorrow that is up for grabs, though Hillary seems...
View ArticleYou Want Answers? I got ya Answers for ya Right Here! 2016 Primary Demystified
What was Hillary’s best performance this year? Iowa. Does the Democratic primary have a stable progression? Yes. Would Obama have won Michigan had he and Hillary both been contesting it in a normal...
View ArticleState (End) of the Primary: How and Why Hillary is Winning
Inflammatory title aside, what I am setting out to do is not put down Sanders or his supporters, but rather attack implausible projections that make Sanders as still decent odds to win the nomination,...
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