I have another post almost finished, and I will post the third in my series I’ve been working on this week as tomorrow’s post, but I’m watching Diane Sawyer’s 20-20 show about Gabby Giffords struggles and triumphs this year right now and I have to say something about this incredibly moving story. I have to […]
Here's Hoping The Lean Toward Political Sanity Lasts
I’m still somewhat awash in happiness over local and far-off year election results of yesterday. While I would have loved to see Mary DeCamp as mayor of Tucson, a Green Party Mayor isn’t in the stars for us just yet. I am very, very happy that the lobbyist for Rosemont Copper, also known as the […]
Occupy Tucson needs your help!
Make some calls! NOW! This is from the Facebook Wall: OccupyTucson needs your help! TPD is utilizing a strategy of financial attrition to kill the movement by issuing criminal citations to occupiers in the who stay in the park past 10:30pm. This citation carries a potential sentence of up to a $1000 fine, up to […]
Remember
I once had a little white on black button from the Holocaust Museum in D.C. that simply said, “remember.” My husband borrowed it, and I never saw it again. Somehow that is fitting. Things don’t last. Things vanish. But memories are different. We keep them and review them in grief, and for comfort, until they […]
BlogHer11
The conference is just starting – a.m. of the first day, though I was at the business path section of pathfinder day yesterday. BlogHer has changed so much in the last few years. Corporations have arrived. BIGTIME. I will be talking about semiotics and corporations in many different ways from the differing perspectives throughout the […]
Two Down and One (Child Murderer) Trial to Go
I am a bit of a cynic when it comes to Arizona justice or any justice in any state that prides itself on stupidity, but living in such states seems to be my lot in life. Indiana and Arizona have both had more than is any one state’s right to stupid judicial actions. Indiana rounded […]