Kos on New Dem Outreach in SF (w/poll)
Markos has some great commentary today in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding new models of Democratic outreach and fundraising, scoring points for the positive frame he was able to place around...
View ArticleSunday NYT: Bloggers at the Gates (w/poll)
OK, I know the diary police will probably spank me, but considering that Markos and this site are the subject of this editorial in today's Sunday New York Times (and that I'm dumb enough to pay good...
View ArticleO'Connor's Dictatorship Remarks (w/poll)
It took five or six days, but finally the newspaper of record in what is arguably the most liberal large city in the United States took note in an EDITORIAL that a member of the highest court in the...
View ArticleSUNDAY NYT Kos interview (w/poll)
Maybe I am too "NYT-centric," but this the highest profile mainstream media event so far for Kos and the site of which I am aware. In our capitalistic system, apparently until you have something like...
View ArticleBlowback: Kos has nothing to say (w/poll)
There's no mistaking that when the tree of Deborah Solomon's "Kos Celebre" piece fell in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, it made a sound that frightened the crap out of all the little forest...
View ArticleLike clockwork: Terror Alert! (w/poll)
Bush is hitting ever-lower lows in public approval. One issue after another from immigration to gas prices to the new Iraqi government blows up in the Republicans faces faster than they can spin it....
View ArticleWe've met the enemy and he is Eeyore? (w/poll)
SusanG's front page diary asks that Kossaks with nothing nice to say should be rounded up into a few diaries, so all the shiny happy activist people won't be subjected to such "downerism." Based on...
View ArticleIOKIYAR: Stealing Fed Ed Funds for Facelift (w/poll)
In the all-corruption, all-the-time prime-time lineup that is the Republican Party, some of the featured offerings are dramas, some tragedies, some soap operas, and some are comedies. From the state...
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BREAKING: Chaos in Frisco! Mexico Attacks! (w/poll)
SAN FRANCISCO (05-21) 14:30 Mexico launched the first preemptive strike of its long-rumored Reconquista campaign, to regain its former territories in the United States, with an all-out assault on San...
View ArticleCalifornia Election Dirty Tricks? (w/poll)
I've just run into something I find VERY strange, but strangely familiar. As I was getting ready to head out the door to vote a little while ago, I wanted to check the San Francisco Bay Guardian's...
View ArticleArnold Hides Trip to White House (w/poll)
Fighting his way back from the devastating defeat of the $80 million worth of political grandstanding propositions he forced onto the California ballot last November, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has...
View ArticleDC Crime Emergency: End of Protest? (w/poll)
Here's a new twist on a familiar theme: instead of invoking terrorism and multi-colored alerts to raise the fear level and excuse the draconian abridgment of civil rights, the Republicans are going...
View ArticleHotSoup, anyone? DLC does dKos? (w/poll)
No doubt about it, the Powers-That-Be have noticed the increasing influence of political web communities like Daily Kos. And like the old adage says: "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." It...
View ArticleFREEP THIS: Show Olbermann some love! (w/poll)
The Best News Anchor on Television needs our help. Fox News, in the form of Reagan-era Republican toady, Roger Ailes, has thrown down the gauntlet and publicly declared that Keith Olbermann has gone...
View ArticleDavid Brooks Pithed on Me (w/poll)
David Brooks just pithed on me (and by extension, many Kossacks and other bloggers) and I'm not going to take it any more. Many readers no doubt observed that if today's prostate-aged moochers wanted...
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Strike a pose! (w/poll)
"Vague" with apologies to MadonnaLook around everywhere you turn is terror It's everywhere that you go (look around) You try everything you can to escape But we'll know where you go (where you go) When...
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BREAKING: New Foley video (w/poll)
When You're Good to Foley (with apologies to Queen Latifah and the musical "Chicago"> Ask any of the pages when I gawk They'll tell you I'm the biggest chickenhawk I love 'em all and all of them...
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Bill Maher's Best Rant Ever! (w/poll)
On Friday the October 13's "Real Time" on HBO, Bill Maher put the absurdity of American media and politics into near-perfect perspective with all the acerbic wit and jaded cynicism they have earned....
View ArticleWeb 2.0: Anarchy or Webocracy? (w/poll)
With the Democratic Party tantalizingly close to regaining power, and with the inevitable post-game analysis of what it all means, the role of bloggers and the latest technologies will be hotly...
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Bush Season Finale (w/poll)
Any television show which has had a long and profitable run, but is now losing the audience's interest, will add the most counter-intuitive of plot twists to try to boost their ratings.
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