Happy 100th Birthday, Howlin' Wolf!
One hundred years ago today, a blues legend was born in Mississippi hill country.A lot of peoples wonder what is the blues. I hear a lot of people saying, "The blues, the blues...", but I'm gon' tell...
View ArticleHalp! Feral Pooties! Advice?
I haven't been around in a while. I was job searching and found a job. Finally started working last week.I'm so worried about these poor feral cats in my neighborhood. I've lived here for five years...
View ArticleHow To Love a Teacher
I've been thinking a lot about the first teacher I ever loved. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the events unfolding in several states concerning attacks on public workers' unions. Some of it has to do...
View ArticleMy Mother the Truther
I don't know exactly what just happened but I just told my mother that I didn't need her in my life.
View ArticleHe Aint Heavy; A Requiem For Social Security
He's 33. He's tall, handsome and he used to be a straight-A student and a damn decent basketball player in high school just like his father. He suffers from a myriad of inherited emotional and mental...
View ArticleIn the Air Tonight - An #OWS Inspirational Video
We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We...
View ArticleToure on Herman Cain
Last night I was watching Lawrence O'Donnell's "The Last Word" and happened to catch this interesting commentary on Herman Cain and Republican racial politics from Toure, a black American author,...
View Article"Tyiesha, I'm Sorry..."
I told my reflection last night before I went to bed. I woke up angry and slapped on a nicotine patch. You're sorry? Well do something about it right now!Never, never, never again will I ever smoke...
View ArticleThank You
Dear GenXangster, Congratulations! An anonymous benefactor has purchased you a lifetime gift subscription to Daily Kos. To: GenXangster From: An anonymous benefactor
View Article"Creep" or "Day 42"
(Warning; this entire thing may come off as an incoherent ramble but I need it. I quit smoking 42 days ago and you all just have to deal with it. :-P)I don't care if it hurts I wanna have control I...
View ArticleShe's Dying
My brother is on his way back from upstate NY on the Greyhound with my 17 year old sister and he calls me to tell me because he needs a ride. Otherwise, my mother doesn't even call me. I went through...
View ArticlePresident Obama Visits My Very First Predatory Lending Case!
Okay, this happened on Wednesday but I work Monday-Friday 2-10 pm (and sometimes Saturday afternoon), I just came back from a road trip to upstate NY to see my very sick mother who may be dying within...
View ArticleHalp! Kiddy's on teh Roof!
Any suggestions? I've gone to every window in the house trying to poke my head out and get closer to Kiddy. I grabbed a big piece of cardboard to use as a plank to lessen the distance between the...
View ArticleLOL Why Does This Disturb Me?
I'm having a stressful time right now and I guess I should be writing about that but I don't really want to. I'd rather laugh and be happy and forget about it. It's only a temporary situation and will...
View ArticleTerrorized. Still Not Gon' Cry
I'm not really asking for help, I guess. There's nothing anyone can do for me. Sometimes you just have to vent to somebody. I can hardly talk to people in the "real" world about this because it will...
View ArticleFeeling Good
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me And I'm feeling good -Nina...
View ArticleRipples, Racism, Paternalism and Slut Shame
"What business do you have wanting birth control, you whore?!"The radical, uber conservative right has taken the entire debate over whether women are important enough to consider their reproductive...
View ArticleThis Is War
...I don't have to tell you that because you're progressives and you already understand.
View ArticleHe Didn't Know That Today Is His Birthday and I Don't Think He Cared
I'm worried about my brother. He suffers schizophrenia and depression and he seems to not be getting better despite what I've tried to do for him this past year. He's actually gotten a bit worse.I...
View ArticleLiberal Sluts Deserve Date Rape
I've talked to people about this incident that happened to me last Saturday because I'm shaken by it and quite disturbed. With the recent "slut" theme circulating around Daily Kos, I thought I should...
View ArticleBanishment
Markos Moulitsas is a very busy man with a large website to manage and a thousand other things to do with his life outside the internet. I fully understand and sympathize.I understand that he cares...
View ArticleYou All Suck! (I Can Haz Recipes Nao?)
I just thought if I impersonated a troll, I'd get hit with some fabulous and cheap recipes that I can stretch for at least 3 weeks on a $100 food budget. LOL Sorry.I'm not good at this. I'm not the...
View ArticleMy Brother is a Product of Rape
I'm just gonna be straight. One of my 7 brothers is a product of rape.My mother has 11 kids, 5 of them with a husband that beat her.According to the logic of that fuckhead misogynist senatorial...
View ArticleBy Request: The Ancestors Rejoice
Last night I wrote a comment in Lefty Coaster's diary: Fox Nation reacts to Michelle's speech: "What a sweet wookie story".Some Kossacks asked me to publish the comment in a separate diary. So, here...
View ArticleDelete My Subversive Jim Henson Brain Ninjas, Kos!
I can't believe I've been so blind. The Enemy was sleeping in my bed the entire time and Jim Henson put it there! That yellow, plushy, orange-legged Thunder Buddy your child cuddles up to every night...
View ArticleI Need Zingers
I love the job I have and I'm proud of the work I do. I live in Ohio, the birthplace of Orville Wright (Wilbur was born in Indiana according to Wiki) and the plant I work for manufactures and assembles...
View ArticleZOMG UNIONZZZ!!!!
I'm so happy right now that I wanted to share this great news with my Kossacks who love unions, fight for unions, support unions, etc...Not many people saw my frustrated rant of a diary about my (ex)...
View ArticleShe Took Them Out Of School! Forever!
What the hell am I supposed to do? I want to talk to my mother and find out how they're doing in upstate NY in this storm but she won't call me.I found out she wouldn't live to be elderly (she's 56)...
View ArticleLemme Get This Straight; Ricks vs Fox
This will be a simple diary because I think my IQ just fell 100 points this past hour after I read all the stories and comments on the internet concerning Thomas Ricks and Fox News. I need to map this...
View ArticleChildren Who Change the World In One Afternoon
Remember when people used to smoke EVERYWHERE? I was bold enough to light a cigarette on a public bus once. The look I got from the bus driver prompted me to toss it out the window unfinished but what...
View ArticleNicotine Withdrawal Insomnia Rant-a-palooza
I tried to quit last year but 2012 was such a crappy year that I eventually relapsed. I hate myself for it.In 2012, I attempted to quit several times. Every month I made an attempt. Sometimes I would...
View ArticleBlack Fiona Gallagher Never Saw This Coming
I've written here before about my criminally abusive, neglectful, alcoholic, narcissistic mother in comments and diaries. I'm 40 years old now and she can't hurt me anymore. I've cut her out of my life...
View ArticleI Stood Up For a Woman Last Night
I met a man in the neighborhood tavern last night. He was beautiful (looking). He was the right age for me (I'm 40 and he was 38), he had a good job, he had green eyes, he was sweet. He said he had...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of The Negro (according to Cliven Bundy)
"I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was...
View ArticleMLK Is a Lazy Ghost Negro
"I took this boot off so I wouldn’t put my foot in my mouth with the boot on," Bundy said. "Let me see if I can say something. Maybe I sinned, and maybe I need to ask forgiveness, and maybe I don't...
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A Requiem For Puptuck (I'll Be Seeing You)
I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces all day through.....All the times we used to play in the park across the way You chased the squirrels, you gave them...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
Dear Bernie Sanders,Recently, you have been "hit" (protested) by #BlackLivesMatter activists and I'm sure that you have some trouble understanding why they've been so aggressive with you when after...
View ArticleTo White Folks That Have Never Seen Super Light Skinned Negros Before
This is the last thing I ever expected to happen to Shaun King. I don't know why the hell would I not expect it. I can't tell you how many times white people have told racist jokes in front of me...
View ArticleI don't feel safe at home. Please advise me if you can. Update.
Hello, everybody! Long time no “see”. I don’t comment anymore but I still lurk everyday and read your diaries and I’m still as liberal as always. My financial situation is better and work consumes my...
View ArticleI Found a Place For My Brother. In About 1 Month This Nightmare Will Be Over....
First of all, I need to apologize for lurking and not checking in. I read Daily Kos everyday; the articles and the comments. I haven’t participated here because I’m so afraid that someone will ask me...
View ArticleHe Moved Into the Group Home on Sept. 2nd and Everything is Fine! Update!
It’s been a long time since my previous diary (May 7, 2018 to be exact). I haven’t been able to write to update you all because the nature of my job revolves around hurricane season. I’ve been working...
View ArticleUpdates and a Request For Advise/Help
Well, hello again peeps.It’s been a while since my last update but I have good news and not-so-good news. The good news is that my brother is being well cared for at the adult assisted living facility...
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