Ignorance is King
Ignorance is King. Many would not profit from his overthrow for they enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court and under his aegis they defraud and govern for their own...
View ArticleWhen choices affect life and death
To fight on or to give in and let go. At the end of life, or in dire circumstances, sometimes there are choices. Those choices belong to the individual. They should be informed choices. And that means...
View ArticleSTFU about prosecution!
Has it occurred to ANYONE that all the noise about prosecuting Bush & Co right now before the inauguration might be a ploy by some of the smart sneaky, underhanded Freepers or Repug operatives as a...
View ArticleThe Grieving Room: My grandfather doesn't know me anymore
A special welcome to anyone who is new to The Grieving Room. We meet every Monday evening. Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, whether you have lost a person or a pet, or even if the...
View ArticleCreeped out and the leap of faith in race relations
Seriously, who ever thought that we find ourselves in the position of having such problems! Lol. The scales tipping way past the middle and into unknown territory. Maybe the creeped out feeling is...
View ArticleAnother Letter to Senator Leahy
Yesterday buhdydharma asked that people send copies of a letter to Senator Leahy regarding his Truth Commission. I thought that, rather than add one copy to the hopefully thousands that were sent, I...
View ArticleMorning Reaction: How Much Should We Value Justice?
I don’t have answers. I have questions. A lot of questions. And observations. And opinions, many of which are strongly held. But no answers. We have to figure out each one and together what justice is...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Choices Surrounding Life and Death, Reprise
To fight on or to give in and let go. At the end of life, or in dire circumstances, sometimes there are choices that must be made. Those choices should belong to the individual. They should be informed...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Up, Up and Away...
" ...in my beautiful, my beautiful, balloon..."One might think I was an actor, given all the offbeat jobs I held in the years before I dragged myself through nursing school in my late 20's. Dog groomer...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Locked in the Mailroom. (Ask Ms Pootie)
Hullo, we’r Pootie teh Precious and Woofie teh Younger. Our momz went away on vakashun without us :-(. Some of the stoodints taking care of Woofie tY and me were talkin’ and said teh faculty took our...
View ArticleMorning Feature: My Favorite Lawyer Story
Dear Lord, help me to remember to make my words sweet and kind today, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. Okay, nobody signed up to cover today so you’re all stuck with one of my rambling shaggy dog...
View ArticleBreaking: Journalists Are Home! Clinton Pulled it Off!
Euna Lee and Laura Ling are off the plane in Burbank, CA at approximately 6 AM PST Wed.
View ArticleMorning Feature: Religiousity + Politics=Holy War: Part I
I think one of the main reasons we have allowed politics to be infiltrated by religion in the past couple of decades is because Americans as a people really have no recollection of being involved in a...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Religiousity + Politics=holy war: Pt II
America's Founders weren't perfect men by a long shot. But they were well educated in the context of their time and some of them were deep thinkers. When they separated church and state in our founding...
View Article'It happens to men, too.', but we react
very differently.I don't think that people commenting to remind us that rape happens to men, too is necessarily a belittling of what women go through in dealing with/avoiding rape. I think that...
View ArticleHobo-A True Halloween Pony's Tale
The following story is true, happened in the spring of 1988 or '89, it's so long ago now that it's hard to pinpoint it. But it’s really a Halloween tale and I leave the conclusions up to you. ;-)
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Morning Feature: Get A Grip
A small disclaimer, this was written a couple of days ago when the Rec list was really a wreck list and it seemed quite a few of us were pretty fed up with what was floating around. Before the...
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Morning Feature: WTG TRMS! And Why Chris Kofinis Is SO Wrong
Last Wednesday night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis made a case for leaving the GOP attacks and propaganda unanswered, stating that ‘Americans’ see the hypocrisy of the...
View ArticleInterim Housing/Shelter Proposition for Haiti
Help is mobilized and en route for the immediate relief effort in Haiti, but as some have pointed out, hurricane season isn't that far away. And when we consider that there are approximately three...
View ArticleChina's Backdoor Access To The NYSE
The Capital Press, a west coast regional agricultural newspaper recently reported that there is a trend for Chinese companies to acquire dormant American companies, use them as shell companies via...
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