This Is Not About Climate Change
2016-01-31 – I do not like the cold. I like winter sports like skiing or ice skating, but I haven’t done them in a while. I kinda like shoveling snow. […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Jumping On the Couch
2016-01-28 – We live on a corner. It’s a quiet neighborhood, but we live across from a school and a park. The park blocks the through-streets, so we do get […]
Best for the System We Have . . . Or Best to Create New System
2016-01-26 – Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Bill Clinton administration has the best statement about what divides Hillary Clinton from Bernie Sanders: “[Hillary Clinton is] the most […]
Start Spreading the News
2016-1-24 – No actual votes have been cast yet, but the pundits are suggesting that next November’s election could be between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. No two candidates could […]
All Come to Look for America
2016-01-21 – “Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together.” Look, I’m a sucker for a song. And Bernie Sander’s latest commercial really gets to me. There’s nothing much […]
Give Fetuses the Right to Vote
2016-01-19 – There’s a mini-movement gaining steam to give the vote to 16 year olds. Sixteen year old voted last year in the referendum on Scottish independence from the United […]
Problems With Planned Parenthood Lawsuit
2016-01-17 – Let me say this upfront. I believe that Planned Parenthood does great work. I also believe that the folks who made the so-called baby-parts videos are self-righteous zealots […]
By the Time You Read This . . .
2016-01-14 – By the time you read this I may have feeling in my fingers and toes again. Late Tuesday night I woke up smelling something smoky. I walked around […]
“Voting Against Their Own Interest”—Is Victim Blaming
2016-01-12 – It’s easy to blame the victim. You see it all the time. Women are blamed for sexual assault. African-Americans and Latinos are blamed for police brutality and other […]
Minority Rule in the USA
2016-01-10 – Most people who voted in the 2000 presidential election know that George W. Bush was declared the winner in spite of the fact that Al Gore had more […]
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