We’re delighted to announce that FDL Book Salon will feature 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right on Sunday, August 13 and Sunday, August 20, both at 5:00 PM EST/2:00 PM PST.  Author John Javna will be joining us in the duscussion thread on August 20th. In June, 2006, the Roots Project [...]

All those phone calls yesterday gleaned some fantastic information, and stirred things up in Senate and House offices all around the Hill.  ("Why are these people calling about a bill I’ve never even heard of?  Get me a copy…")  But we aren’t nearly done — there’s still a lot of work to do.  And there are [...]

Apparently, Sen. Arlen Specter thinks we should all go along with whatever the President wants to do.  Even if the President has been secretly breaking the law for years — since before 9/11/01 — we should just all clap our hands, make the illegality go away, and be cheerful about Specter’s bill that allows the President [...]

Last week Pachacutec asked all of the Roots project members to reach out to their senators to find out how they intended to vote on Arlen Specter’s revision of FISA legislation.  If you haven’t yet joined the Roots Project, you should (see UPDATE below). Cases are currently moving through the federal courts that challenge the legality of [...]

              Here come the Roots. . .  Okay, I’m not here to engage in grassroots or netroots triumphalism.  We’re way behind in the game and the other guys still have us outgunned.  But we’re making some progress, and I wanted to highlight a few things for everybody. I’ve spent a lot of time this week [...]

  On our way to New Haven where Kobe (pictured above) will kick Joe Lieberman’s ass and make him stop telling lies about Ned Lamont, we stopped off in Pittsburgh and hooked up with the folks from Drinking Liberally.  It was really fun and I don’t even drink. The only one I sort-of knew was [...]

We had a fabulous coffee this morning with the Indianapolis set — Fini Finito (who runs the Roots MySpace page), poputonian (who has an excellent post up at Digby’s), Twisted Martini and our very own *ilson, scourge o’ the trolls.  We met at the Abby downtown which was blissfully Wi-Fi’d and had much fun at [...]

Culture "War?"  Fought by "rabid lambs?"  The horror!  (I’ll bet darkblack is already on the case.) Okay, I admit, "war" metaphors are waaaay overdone, and actually, total bullshit.  Here’s one from the recent archives, for example.  And here’s a great new piece that could function as a companion to it.  Check it out. Matt Stoller [...]

       The old lessons are still the best ones.  Christy kicked off an invitation to lurkers to introduce themselves this morning.  It turned into a party, sharing many recipes perfect for large family gatherings.  It also prompted this comment from Organic George: I thought I would be the only lurker at [Yearly]Kos. Much to my [...]

Since I’m filling in this afternoon as the FDL crew recuperates or heads off to yet another blogfest, I thought I’d take the opportunity to dish about Jane and Pach and Christy behind their backs a little. And you too. I think we can all agree that FDL made quite a splash at YKOS, can’t [...]