Kit OConnell
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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Monday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-20 20:01:08View | Delete

    I responded to the best of my ability on that post, just now.

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Sunday Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Mickey Newbury, Pete Townshend, Dusty Hill (ZZ Topp), and Joey Ramone by dakine01.

    2013-05-20 20:00:41View | Delete

    Demi:

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    Kit OConnell wrote a new diary post: Monday Watercooler

    2013-05-20 19:06:54View | Delete

    Thumbnail  Hi, y’all. “Talk Show Subway Car” is the latest sketch by New York City prank collective Improv Everywhere:

    For our latest mission, we converted a New York City subway car into a late night talk show set. Host Pat Cassels ( CollegeHumor) interviewed random commuters from his desk as bandleader Evan Gregory ( The Gregory Brothers ) kept the [...]

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    Kit OConnell wrote a new diary post: Cartoon Friday Watercooler

    2013-05-17 19:00:01View | Delete

    Thumbnail   It’s Cartoon Friday, again!

    My spoon is too big!

    For those who have watched, this simple phrase will immediately bring to mind Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt’s Oscar winning short cartoon film. Taking the form of a series of short promo cartoons supposedly created for cable networks, each succeeding segment gets weirder and more disturbed. This cartoon continues to [...]

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Thursday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-17 17:17:31View | Delete

    Larue: I sent you an email with Whiskey Shivers contact info.

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    Kit OConnell commented on the blog post Buzzfeed’s Partnership With Koch Brothers Under Fire

    2013-05-17 11:29:11View | Delete

    Wow the sinister agenda behind all the cute cat pictures. Thanks Daniel.

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post LIVE: Protests Mark 100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-17 10:27:33View | Delete

    You’re welcome, & I agree.

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post LIVE: Protests Mark 100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-17 10:27:11View | Delete

    This is an important issue & I am glad so many took part. Good luck at the rally today & thanks for the link.

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    Kit OConnell wrote a new diary post: Protests Mark 100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike (UPDATED)

    2013-05-17 09:56:50View | Delete

      Update: There were 14 arrests of activists from CODEPINK at the White House for protesting Guantanamo on the 100th day of prisoners’ hunger strike. Protesters had deliberately staged themselves on a swath of pavement directly in front of the White House where tourists are allowed but protests are banned. I’ve replaced the livestream link with an [...]

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Thursday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-17 09:32:55View | Delete

    They were even better in person! I’ll send them a tweet and see if they are interested.

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    Kit OConnell commented on the blog post SF Pride Chief Operating Officer Resorts to Lies as Scandal Around Honoring Bradley Manning Continues

    2013-05-16 22:57:03View | Delete

    I’m really suspicious of this “queer veterans group” or groups which came out of the woodwork to protest Manning at SF Pride, getting them to do their about face. It reeks of astro turf.

    When I’ve posted about Manning & SF Pride on my Facebook page, I’ve twice had people show up out of nowhere to decry Manning as a “war criminal.” One was a former or current Obama For America employee, and the other two suspiciously had no connection to my friends network but both claimed to be anti-Manning queer veterans. Very odd.

    Thanks for this post.

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    Kit OConnell wrote a new diary post: Thursday Watercooler

    2013-05-16 19:00:33View | Delete

    Thumbnail  Hi, y’all. Here’s Whiskey Shivers performing “Jealous Heart” from their album Rampa Heart. This group is playing a free show tonight in Austin at the Scoot Inn (supposedly our city’s oldest continuously operating bar) at the end of the Thursday Night social bike ride — so if you’re local and want to hear them, hurry on over [...]

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Wednesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-16 16:39:04View | Delete

    Just let us know so we can intervene — we don’t always notice otherwise!

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Avoid buying Koch Industries products with new phone app! by cgibson.

    2013-05-16 11:48:47View | Delete

    It’s unlikely that this group has any astroturf funding behind it. I’ve been watching @Buycottapp on Twitter. They had an Android & an iPhone version when this started. The person or people involved are clearly overwhelmed by the response, struggling to get more servers up, and pleading for technical assistance. This has every indication of [...]

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Wednesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-16 10:30:00View | Delete

    Hi!

    I freed up the comment. You didn’t overstep any bounds, it just set off our automatic spam filter because of the high number of links in it. No big deal, happens pretty often.

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    Kit OConnell wrote a new diary post: Wednesday Watercooler

    2013-05-15 19:00:20View | Delete

    Thumbnail  Hi, y’all. We started off the day talking about poop — that is fecal transplants, care of Over Easy  – so it seems appropriate to share this story I ran across during my browsing today: apparently the FDA is putting the brakes on (but not entirely ending) fecal transplants pending further study . From RawStory: 

    The agency said in a press [...]

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Tuesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-15 17:31:27View | Delete

    Aw wow, I don’t know which I’d choose between Mad Men & Breaking Bad. Dynamite acting, writing, unbeatable cinematography in both.

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Tuesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-14 20:09:06View | Delete

    Good link! There’s a Day of Action against Monsanto coming up May 24, and it is really picking up steam. 2,500 people have confirmed on the Facebook event just for Austin, so it should be really something. I’ll be camping that weekend but look forward to seeing photos when I get back.

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    Kit OConnell wrote a new diary post: Tuesday Watercooler

    2013-05-14 19:06:09View | Delete

    Thumbnail  Welcome back! Thanks for your patience with the recent Firedoglake outage. You can bet it was frustrating & upsetting to all of us on the staff, especially since it was entirely out of our control. But at least our lives aren’t as bad as the poor, miserable creatures in tonight’s video selection — oh the humanity (or [...]

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    Kit OConnell commented on the diary post Cartoon Friday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.

    2013-05-10 22:20:15View | Delete

    I guess government spending on this kind of project now is seen as wasteful :(

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