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Really, GOPers?

You are trying to accuse kids who recently saw their classmates shot to death that they have been somehow co-opted by the left. Seriously? You don’t think it might have something to do with hiding in a classroom while watching your teacher get shot to death trying to protect you? You don’t think it might have something to do with the 17 funerals they are attending for their classmates and teachers? You don’t think they might be just a bit pissed that the best you can come up with to protect them is to suggest that concealed carry be allowed Continue reading →

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In case you’ve been trying

The comment section is back up and running on the blog. Apologies if you’ve tried to post a comment and were unable to. It’s those damn Russian trolls. They are trying to silence me but they will not succeed. My mother couldn’t do it. The nuns in school couldn’t do it. My ex-husband couldn’t do it. The Russians sure in hell don’t stand a chance. Continue reading →

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Here’s what I can’t imagine

I went to Catholic school from pre-kindergarten through college. I was taught by nuns. When I went to school, I felt as safe as if I were home because I knew those nuns would not let anything happen to me.

I can’t imagine one of them being shot in front of me and then attending the funeral. How do you do that? How does the teenage  mind process that?  I don’t know if I’d ever have gone back into that school again. Yet almost every month we have another shooting at a school and expect our kids to pick up Continue reading →

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Guns

If you are looking for a rant about gun ownership and how it needs to be sensibly regulated, you’re preaching to the choir. But that’s not the real issue. The real issue is how gun regulation can’t get a toehold in Congress despite the overwhelming support of Americans of every political party. I guess most Americans have come to the realization that mass murderers don’t ask for your political affiliation before they shoot you. Being a 2nd Amendment conservative Republican won’t protect you from a bullet.

So if Congress represents us, the people, then how come their position on gun Continue reading →

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Poor Melania

Not only did she apparently have to at least once have slept with that jiggling tub of lard she is married to, but when she tries to actually say or do something nice, he just gets thrown in her face anyhow. So today when she tweeted about it being ‘do a nice thing” day or some such shit, she gets slammed for not making her husband nice first.

I’ll bet she thought she won when she bagged him. Now she realizes it makes her one of the biggest losers in the history of mankind.

Maybe we need to start a Continue reading →

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It’s a brave new world in which women and people of color are determined to participate

The current occupant of the White House has some fairly fanatical supporters who wish we could just go back to the good old days of the 1950s when America’s economy was thriving, women were secretaries and men ruled. Well, let me clarify that. White men ruled. It seems that now that their hegemony over the rest of the world is being challenged, they are getting more than a little nervous. I totally understand their concerns.

I grew up in that world of the fifties. There was an order to be followed and everyone followed it. Maybe not all were following Continue reading →

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and on another note…

I don’t see what all the fuss is about. We have at least one school shooting a week. Isn’t that our new normal? I mean, aren’t all Americans entitled to all the guns they might want no matter how powerful or deadly or meant only for killing other humans? Isn’t that the NRA stance? And isn’t that what all the pussy-assed politicians are kissing NRA butt to keep legal because their powerful position is more important than the lives of any teenager? Continue reading →

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So here we go

Thoughts on an early Thursday morning…

According to resident black magic witch Kellyanne Conway, if a woman is strong and intelligent, she can’t be abused. Hmmm… I guess that makes me a weak idiot. Because I was in an abusive marriage. Not for long, but for what now seems like a brief five minutes in my life, I learned that someone you think you love can be unbearably cruel both physically and mentally to you. And what that happens, the initial confusion makes rational decisions difficult to impossible.

I had never seen abuse growing up. My father and mother had Continue reading →

Columns 2018

What price fame?

Can you see their faces? I can. They are beautiful young ladies with impossibly toned bodies who perform amazing feats with those bodies. They always seemed so fresh and young and innocent. They represented our idealized dream of the all American girl.

But we must once again ask ourselves what price we are willing to pay for fame. We must ask why, given what has happened in other institutions like Penn State and the Catholic Church, organizations still think the best way to handle a bad situation is to protect the organization instead of the people being hurt. It is Continue reading →