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I have a lot to do today. I have to take care of Bill, who is doing well. My daughter is taking me to see Charlie Brown Christmas at the Magic Theater, in the early afternoon. It’s kids theater, but I love it. So for my birthday, I would like for you...

Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election shouldn't be remotely competitive, with President Donald Trump having won it by more than 22% in 2024. But Republicans have ...

In the US, many people are traveling to visit relatives for the Thanksgiving holiday. �It is meant to be a celebration of family and togetherness (never mind it’s based on Native Americans helping ...

Old Brick Farm, where Larry Doll raises chickens, turkeys and ducks, was fortunate � this Thanksgiving season . Doll's small farm west of Detroit had no cases of � bird flu , despite an ongoing ...

It was recently revealed that Larry Summers joked about women having lower IQs in an email to Jeffrey Epstein. I find Summers' narrow fixation on biological determinism fascinating because it's ...

"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy." — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT) has called the latest Witkoff/Rubio kerfuffle a “Goat Rodeo” What does goat rodeo mean? A goat rodeo is a slang term for something going totally,...

In a world afire in climate crisis and simultaneously hungry for food and energy, agrivoltaics—the pairing of solar panels with farming and ranching — has been hailed as a miracle solution. But this encouraging technological fix is also a political...

I posted this essay on my site yesterday, and the response/comments have been amazingly moving to me. I’m not sure if it works as a DK diary, but I’m going to repost it and see what you think. Here goes! ~ I read this troubling, illuminating, and...

Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...

What if every state did the Transparent Election Initiative to negate the pernicious effects of Citizens United and its political action committee grifting down by the dental floss bush. Every state, whether via legislators or ballot initiatives, has...