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I meant to share this sooner, but forgot! Last week, I received the following email: May 2, 2008 Author The Lady Speaks blog theladyspeaksblog@yahoo.com Dear Author, I am writing to request permission...
View ArticleTime Once Again
Today will be yet another installment of “I Just Can’t Wait to be King.” Today’s episode will no doubt feature bunches of misogynistic television anchors, dozens of panting, genuflecting, and possibly...
View ArticleSexism and The Media
You have got to be fucking kidding me. At Shakesville today, I learn that irony isn’t just dead, but has been staked, shot, knifed, and garroted. In case you needed any motivation for Assignment:...
View ArticleOn this Memorial Day
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland, via quotegarden Two years ago, I wrote a post for Memorial Day that I’ve never been able...
View ArticleThe Rules
This one’s for all those Obama supporters out there screaming and ranting that the DNC has to “follow the rules!” and wailing and moaning that Hillary is breaking said rules. Here’s a snippet of...
View ArticleThe End of the Primary Season
Today’s the day. Montanans and South Dakotans will flock to the polls, vote their choices – with much expectation and extrapolation by the news media – and the primary season will end. Only the primary...
View ArticleSaturday Poem
I Am the People, the Mob By Carl Sandburg I am the people–the mob–the crowd–the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker...
View ArticleEddie
Edward D. Owen, Jr. June 11, 1979 – October 12, 2004 We miss you still, and for always.
View ArticleFor My Son, the Graduate
You did it, PK! After 14 years (counting K-4) of hard work and the every-single-year pre-emptive announcement that you didn’t think you were going to pass, you are a high school graduate. Tonight was...
View ArticleLanguage Policing
I’m petty enough to be driven nuts by this stuff and – I admit it – my estimation of a person‘s intelligence drops in direct proportion to their ability to spell and punctuate correctly. I also admit...
View ArticleWandering Words
The past couple of months, my posting has been infrequent at best. The simple fact is that blog fatigue, political fatigue, and plain ol’ “life” fatigue have left me with little time and/or little...
View ArticleBottomless Pit of Capitulation
*All items in red edited at 3:10p* Okay, so maybe I lied about taking a break from writing about politics… Well, no. It’s more a case of “when VastLeft Un-endorses Obama, the cause is so over the top...
View ArticleAu Revoir
From the post that started me on this blogging thing: A Question of Doing What’s Right — Christy Hardin Smith Jan 6, 2006 But it isn’t enough that I want more for myself and my family. Every person in...
View ArticleLet Freedom Ring
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When, in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...
View ArticleFight the Power!
This is the full-page ad run by Blue America, Firedoglake, and Color of Change in today’s Washington Post. Click the photo to see it full-size. [pdf] The debate on the FISA bill begins today, with the...
View ArticleFight Tyranny
Those Senators who vote to allow the government to continue spying on the communications of Americans without warrants and to immunize those telecoms which complied with illegal directives by the...
View ArticleAmerika
Article IV, U.S. Constitution, as amended on July 9, 2008: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be...
View ArticleThe Longest Walk Ends
They started at Alcatraz on February 11th. Five months. Two routes. Over 4,000 miles. From sea to shining sea. On foot. 175 days (4200hrs.) ago walkers from all over Indian country as well as...
View ArticleMcCain Says: Family=Male/Female Parents
Via Shakesville, Reason # 3582668 for Why I Won’t Vote For John McCain. From a man who cheated on and later divorced the wife who waited through the many years he was a prisoner of war. The mother of...
View Article“Promise You’ll Protect Me From the Americans”
Omar Khadr. Fifteen years old when he was captured by US forces in Afghanistan. Six years spent at Guantanamo without trial. Facing five war crimes charges, including the murder of a US soldier during...
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