The Scratching Post – One for the Road before July 20th!

 

First of all, I’d like to thank Mother Riverdaughter for allowing me to host the recent Scratching Post Cocktails to help retire Hillary’s debt.   Thanks to all of you, we raised over 10K last week!  Yay!  But gracious and generous Conflucians, we’ve reached the final days before July 20th, day on which the Hillary Clinton Campaign will make a fundraising announcement.  Did PUMAs [...]

Book Confluence: 1984

In response to the recently passed Government Surveillance Act, aka FISA, for our next Book Confluence meeting, we will be discussing George Orwell’s, 1984.  The book:
is a 1949 English novel about life in a fictional, future authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth. Winston is degraded and [...]

Centrism, Triangulation and the Netroots

With this week’s Netroots Nation starting today, there will be two viewpoints represented: that of the centrist (aka EEEEEEVIL) DLC (represented by DLC leader Harold Ford), and that of the virtuous, pure, liberal/progressive netroots (represented by Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos).
Or so they would have you believe.
When the “progressive” blogosphere burst on the scene [...]

Thursday: Radio killed the bloggio star?

If there’s one thing I’ve found really exciting about the new progressive blogosphere it is the degree to which we are not afraid to use new internet features to be heard- literally.  I love to blog but, dangit!, do I always have to be tied to this damn keyboard???  Wouldn’t it be great if I [...]