My Letter to Kentucky Superdelegates
The following is a message that I sent to Kentucky superdelegates, urging them to support Barack Obama. To whom it may concern, My name is (flowrider). (identifying information redacted...) Though I...
View ArticleKentucky Voting Laws - Archaic, Status Quo, Discriminatory
I haven't been in organizing field for very long, so forgive me for my original naiveté. You see, as my political experience, in college and after, is by far based mostly upon Kentucky political...
View ArticleUPDATEDx3: Jindal Rejects Stimulus Help
I did a search for this and nothing came up, so sorry if it's a repeat initially missed a diary from yesterday. Please visit: mysiclaker's diary. Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana and a so-called...
View ArticleKY-SEN NEW POLL: Bunning Loses to Every Potential Democrat
Not a lot of analysis in this diary, for which I apologize. I just wanted to share this poll of the Ky-Sen race from Political Wire. It appears, in every head-to-head matchup with potential (and one...
View ArticleThe American Right and the Orwellian Lexicography
George Orwell observes a fairly common thread in political discourse in his book 1984. In Orwell's lexicography, doublethink is the practice of simultaneously believing two contradictory things. It is...
View ArticleKy-Gov - Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Gov. Beshear Chooses a Running Mate
Today, Governor Steve Beshear announced his choice of Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson to be his running mate in his 2011 re-election campaign. (Please excuse the shortness of this diary - I...
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Valentine's Day 2011 - On Love and the Gay Rights Movement
It's St. Valentine's Day, which, despite our culture's sometimes-overbearing commercialism and the vast ocean of cliche to which this holiday has fallen victim, today is really about the simplest and...
View ArticleLTE to Tampa Tribune re: High-Speed Rail
I just submitted this Letter to the Editor to the Tampa Tribune. Because it's just so tacky not to send a little thank you note.... (referencing this, btw.)
View ArticleI am so ashamed
Please read Chrislove's diary about the tragic loss of yet another young LGBT person. Kenneth J. Weishuhn Jr. took his life this weekend after being bullied relentlessly at school. He came out only...
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