Why I still love the Daily Kos: a couple of diaries

• Texas Tom with an interesting tibit from the Dallas Morning News: "high fuel prices will encourage poor people to get better paying jobs:

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/2/135519/826

Advice to poor: Get better jobs to pay for energy by TexasTom

Sun Oct 2nd, 2005 at 10:55:19 PDT

"Sadly, that headline isn't satire, but is actually a real quote from Moody's Investment Service that appeared in the Dallas Morning News in a recent article on spiking energy costs and the effect that they're having on working people.
The quote from the article follows:
"Middle- and lower-income families will take the biggest hit [from increased energy costs]. Still, economists as Moody's Investors Service point out that some low-wage workers might be compelled to seek higher-paying jobs.
"Given the underlying vitality of the economy, many might well succeed at securing higher wages," the firm reported in a reserach note Thursday.""

Gee, why didn't those middle and lower income families think of that before?

• Zachpunk: nice diary on some of the current infighting among liberals:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/2/13161/4725#10

We on the left are often just as dogmatic and closeminded as those on the right.