WYFP - Soft Selling Democratic Ideas
It’s been another week and here we are. More candidates in the republican race and lots of rampant stupidity from them, but I guess that is just par for the course these days. It’s also Pride month,...
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WYFP? toilet policing and other dominance games
Fascinating are people who have such inerrant ideological commitments that they are unable to accept a range of meanings for certain concepts like “socialism”. They don’t understand the possibility of...
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WYFP: Some Independence Day
Well, I had a nice, fun diary planned but SCOTUS just crapped all over it yesterday.I used to believe Justice Thomas would never think of overturning Loving vs. Virginia. I no longer believe that. He...
View ArticleWYFP - I'm Ready To Go Back To Class
I’m frustrated with summer and ready to go back to class. I’m slowly cleaning the house up and doing things that need to be done, but I want to get on with it. If all goes well in the class, I...
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WYFP? deduction's revenge on induction with Comfort Women
WWII Japanese sex trafficking, like Nazi Germany’s is a neglected story. It is an example of de facto and de jure coercion in Asian labor contracts, esp. sexual coercion and its revisionist history no...
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WYFP: A Good Place To Park
Summertime! Most of us are lucky enough to grow up near a city park, a place where we might climb trees, attend picnics with family, learn to swim or learn crafts during the Summer. My childhood park...
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WYFP? “is there sauerkraut juice where your brain should be?”
An Open Thread5. Pilkunnussija (Finland)4. Tüpflischiisser (Switzerland)3. Flisespikker (Norway)2. Erbsenzähler (Germany)1. Enculer les mouches (France)Another insult from Hungarian slang is káposztalé...
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WYFP: Why We Still Need Affirmative Action
I was reading Caribbean Matters today and the picture made me have a breakthrough. People who deny we no longer need affirmative action are lying, not only to themselves but to everyone else. The...
View ArticleWYFP - Lorraine Bowen - Quirky and Fun!
So you may be asking yourself — who the heck is Lorraine Bowen? She is one of my all time favorite entertainers on the internet. My first run in with her was in a little scene in a historical piece...
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WYFP: Make Me Laugh (Please?)
We are going through dark times, my friends. I’m not only talking about living thru The Trump years and its aftermath. I’m talking about our media landscape where corporations and streaming services...
View ArticleWYFP - This Week Needs To End
Howdy all, it’s another Saturday night and the world has kept turning, which is always nice. Been a rough one for me, I got a bad case of bronchitis and an ear infection in my “good” ear, which is not...
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WYFP: Genocide- California Style
Between 1850-1900 California settlers made the Spanish look like boy scouts when it came to killing, raping and pillaging in an obscene land grab begun by the gold rush. Malcom Harris’ new book, Palo...
View ArticleWYFP: Saturday Nights Before Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live began October 11, 1975 on NBC. Before SNL, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, Saturday nights at 11:30pm meant Creature Features on KTVU Channel 2, a then independent station...
View ArticleWYFP - Getting Ready To Graduate
Evening all, it’s been another week and we all made it — hurray! I’m sick of holidays — we have Sukkot now, the harvest festival, and then extra days, Shemeni Atzeret and Simchat Torah. I’m holidayed...
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WYFP? 1000 Hamas fighters attack Israel. 3000 rockets launched. 250 Israelis...
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and civilians are believed to have been captured by Palestinian militants, hours after a surprise rocket attack on the countrywas this a provocation?xI would ask these...
View ArticleWYFP - Eye surgery
So I went this morning (Friday the 13th) and had my eye surgery done, and it went fine. I had a blepharoplasty on both eyes, as I couldn’t look up from swelling in the eye socket. I only was able to...
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WYFP? Israeli officials claim Greta Thunberg is a "terror supporter" because...
Greta Thunberg deleted a pro-Palestine social media post after critics claimed a stuffed octopus in the photo could be viewed as an 'anti-Semitic' symbol. The octopus is a popular plushy toy helpful...
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WYFP: Spooky Oregon
I have an ambivalent relationship to the concept of ghosts and hauntings.When I was a teenager and in my early 20’s, I housesat for the managers of a mortuary, who lived above “the store”. The only...
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WYFP? intent and context are always important
The full saying goes: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" - a reference to the land between the Jordan River, which borders eastern Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea to the...
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WYFP: I'm Only Sleeping
My next door neighbor is literally driving me crazy keeping me up at night screaming and banging on our shared wall. The other night, I swear I heard plaster falling from the wall, it wasn’t on my side...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety Is Awful, But So Is Time
Evening all.This week has been a bit of a beast — I’m not feeling my best, my lab partner didn’t leave me any fish to test and I was unable to pull a proposal out of my ass so I’m probably not going to...
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WYFP: Leftovers
I feel like a leftover. Not a Leftover, but definitely someone always picked last for the team.The other residents in my building have a disturbing habit of following me around the building when staff...
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WYFP? Previous Guy winning the war on Xmas
Trump: We’ve been waging an all out war on American democracyxTrump: We’ve been waging an all out war on American democracy pic.twitter.com/4YQDfsvTwi— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2023xif there is another...
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WYFP: Update On Cop City
The Guardian has just come out with a new report stating the Department Of Homeland Security monitored web posts regarding cop city ahead of a crackdown that has left one protestor dead and 40 others...
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WYFP? liquidating the language police like an NFT
The recent hearing attacking female university presidents was mainly to advance an agenda of campus violence in 2024 even if its short-run objective to force a resignation was achieved. Domestic...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety, You Suck
So as some of you might know, I graduated last week from college with a bachelor’s in anthropology, that I started in 1987. Great, right? I worked hard and all that. It still seems a little unreal....
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WYFP: What A Crazy Year, Huh?
2023 was a busy year. A former President is under indictment, hawking his mug shot like it’s the latest invention from Ronco. Everybody was on strike. China pissed people off flying balloons around the...
View ArticleWYFP - A Quiet New Year
It’s been quiet for me so far this year — no major blowouts or anything yet to shake my worldview, but it’s just a matter of time. But for the moment I am holding on all fronts. I check on the fish a...
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WYFP? Use a dictionary, go to jail in Florida
While dictionaries were merely removed for review, the whole business is symptomatic of the DeSantis presidential campaign’s pandering to GOP/Trumpist fascism.Snopes has fact-checked other rumors about...
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WYFP - Too Fast, January. Too Fast.
Time is moving too fast for me these days, I have 10 days to get my application for grad school ready and it’s moving slower than I need it to be done. To be sure, it’s my own fault, I am struggling...
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WYFP: A Cult I Can Get Behind
Cult Movies are a cult I can enjoy and try to turn others onto, you know? So many streaming sites are showing so many old beloved movies. I really can’t understand why Hollywood is determined to keep...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety, You Suck
So we made it through another week, go team us! I’m struggling to finish up my grad school application, mostly because my anxiety is telling me I will never get in so why bother? Thankfully I have a...
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WYFP: Holiday Perfect Storm
Wow, what a weekend! Yesterday was the New Moon. Today is the Chinese New Year, the Year Of The Wood Dragon. Hitting the Google doodle is fun but, mine wouldn’t load. Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday and...
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WYFP - Bone Crackin' (Chiropractic)
So we made it through another week — go team us! I had some medical adventures this week, but the most interesting part was the chiropractor and the loons that work for him. I have mixed feelings...
View ArticleWYFP - Waiting Is Torture
Another week has gone — and I got my grad school application in one day before it was due. Now I just have to wait and see what happens with it, and that’s almost as bad as getting the application...
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WYFP: The Media Gets It Right, And Then Says It On TV
I used to listen to the radio whenever I was awake, and sometimes just left it on when I slept. The last two weeks, I’ve suffered radio silence and I’m missing a lot of news. That’s not what I’m...
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WYFP? OPEN THREAD
MFP: This guy… who says that “In some cases (migrants) are not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”xTRUMP: Katie Britt...
View ArticleWYFP - The Waiting, and Little Disappointments
So I’m still waiting on my application to be reviewed and and I’m feeling less and less confidant as it goes on. My research partner A got into the Biology Master’s program, so he’s set, another one...
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WYFP? sovereignty matters
The MFP question is how sovereignty is derived, from birth, location, or belief.The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits)[1] is a loose group of anti-government activists,...
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WYFP - The Agony of Defeat
Do you remember the opening images of the Wide World of Sports in the 1970s? When that poor bastard comes down that hill and just biffs it completely as the voiceover intones “the agony of defeat.”...
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WYFP: We Need More Women In The House
In State Houses, that is. Joy Reid reported on Wednesday night that only 31% of our elected representatives in state houses are women. No wonder Arizona happened. In my own state of Oregon, 28 women...
View ArticleWYFP - Museum Life?
So we made it through another week, hurray! I have been busy with the lab and medical appointments, and Passover is right around the corner. I dislike Passover because it’s a source of a lot of...
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WYFP: Barbra Streisand Helped Expose Watergate
You read that correctly. Here’s how it happened:On page 397 of her new memoir, “My Name Is Barbra”, Streisand recounts how, in 1973, she was asked to put on a fundraiser for Daniel Ellsberg, who was...
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Kos Katologue 2024
This is a voting year. Many vendors use funds from their businesses to support Democrat candidates! Please support us and rec this diary. Also, please bookmark the diary for later gift giving! Vendor...
View ArticleWYFP - Museum Madness
So I mentioned last time I was up that I was looking at a job in a museum? Well I got it, and hoo boy, it’s a doozy. It’s only part time, but that’s what I need to get my foot back in the door and not...
View ArticleWYFP Open Thread
Hey guys, looks like we didn’t have a writer this week, so here’s an open thread. How was your week?
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WYFP? Matt Gaetz refers to Trump as Mr. Potato Head?
3 Idaho Russets simmering in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) denounced former President Donald Trump's hush money trial outside of the Manhattan courthouse, deriding the case...
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WYFP: I Refuse
First, I must apologize to anyone who came here tonight expecting me to make good on my promise last week to expand on a book I read recently, Night Train To Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story Of...
View ArticleWYFP - Jews, Jews everywhere! (NOT Israel/Gaza related)
Evening folks, it’s been another week, I hope yours didn’t suck. If it did, you’re in the right place to vent and express yourself to a group of fellow humans who do the same. Writers welcome!I live...
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