I don’t often give advice. I speak my mind fairly often and sometimes rather loudly, but I don’t usually tell people what to do, and most of the time when I am angered, it is from someone telling me what to do or trying to force their will on me. So, when I suggest actions […]
Okay, I've Had It. This BS Is About Racism!
We have a problem Houston. Oh, Houston has been dismantled. There is no one to answer. We as Americans no longer value science, discovery, learning, and the differences that feed and keep our systems alive. We have allowed our government to be taken over by ignoramuses and stooges in the employment of billionaires. My assumptions […]
Retrograde Politics in the U.S.
I sometimes wish I could ignore stupidity, corruption, and the various and insidious old boy networks that are everywhere I look. I try to ignore them, I really do, but politics is everywhere. And most often, or so it seems to me, the politically motivated are stupid, corrupt and play favors with abandon. I do […]
Women Not Cut From the Same Cloth, But…
I’ve been mulling over this post for weeks. There are things that have to be said that border so many issues it is almost impossible to write about them without getting lost in tangents. I love tangents but they are slippery and can sidetrack as well as illuminate through example. I know I am not […]
Breach of Trust
Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Reviewed by Rachel Maddow in the New York Times. What we are steaming toward, at the end of more than 12 years of continual hot warfare, is not so much cold warfare or even peace, but rather a kind of high idle, […]
Enemy of the Little Gal – Koch
Remember when the little woman stayed at home, was painstakingly coiffed, had perfectly mannered children, always had dinner on the table just as the hubby walked in… Neither do I. But the myth is there and the new plutarchs have a vested interest in convincing the American people that if we go back to that […]