I won’t be going through Texas on my drive back home to Tucson this week. I encourage everyone who reads this to also boycott the state. On Tuesday, August 7, in a six-to-three decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Kenneth Foster’s final writ of habeas corpus, giving the legal green light for his […]
The Tide is Turning
Reuters is mainstream, no? Well, they sent out a story that Common Dreams picked up today about the perfectly ripe and ready to be plucked activist spirit fruiting in the U.S. It’s true. I was in Ft. Wayne today and needed to do some personal errands and in the course of human events I ran […]
Intentionality and Activism
At times I find the irony of my situation, a woman who doesn’t believe in the inherent worth of politics, in which I spend so much time writing about the whole mess to be a bit sardonic. I am a dedicated believer that you have to go around obstacles. Trying to plow right through items […]
41 Dems Vote For Wiretapping
Grijalva and Giffords were both on the right side of this vote. The 41 Dems from all over the U.S. who voted for this are selling out the American people. For example, why did Harry Mitchell (AZ LD 5) vote with the Republicans to continue giving Bush the expansive power to do whatever the hell […]
Women, framing, blogging and more.
I’ve so many things to blog about, and I’ve still so little time to blog. But only one more week and I will be on the road back in the general direction of Tucson. Yesterday I ran a bunch of errands. Dropped stuff at Goodwill. Met a progressive friend at a great little lunch restaurant […]
Personal BlogHer Debriefing
AT THE MOMENT I want to begin my personal debriefing per the BlogHer Conference. I’m sitting at the bar at Uno’s in Chicago. I tried to get a Spanish meal down the street at Emilios Tapas but the server obviously did not want to serve (per his non-attentiveness) a single female who wasn’t going to […]