Elise Sereni Patkotak

The Miss America Pageant won’t leave me alone. Just as soon as I recover from the feelings of body shaming that accompanied every pageant of my youth, the Pageant hits the headlines again. And I am again that tubby little girl sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday night, windows wide open in the living room to catch a breath of air on a warm September evening, knowing that two blocks away the most beautiful woman in America would soon be crowned and I would never, ever be able to be her.

There were no pageants for the Continue reading →

When I hear supporters of the current administration complain that the accomplishments of the administration are not being recognized, I find myself truly amazed that I have to explain to them that I can’t hear those accomplishments over the screams of three thousand kids separated for no reason other than cruelty from their parents.

Defenders of this administration remind me of the Germans who would defend Hitler by saying he did a lot of great things except for that little Jewish problem.

A piece of shit that builds a railroad that runs on time is still a piece of shit. Continue reading →

So our Secretary of State Pompeo thinks the talks with North Korea were productive and good. North Korea calls them “regrettable”. Well, congratulations, North Korea. Now you know how Americans have felt since that dreadful day in November 2016.

I don’t know about you, but given the choice between believing someone from Orange Goo’s administration versus a mouthpiece for North Korea, I believe North Korea. Yep, in less than two years, this idiotic administration has caused me to believe North Korea over America. I’d say that was a pretty significant shift.

Apparently, the entire world is so engaged in trying Continue reading →

It’s hard for me to imagine Mark Begich actually claiming with a straight face that there was a clamor for him to run for governor. It is absolutely disingenuous of him to claim he will not be a spoiler in the upcoming Alaska gubernatorial race. And yet, knowing the ability of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, I’m not surprised. I fully expect that, thanks to Begich, we will end up with a right-wing Republican for governor who will represent nothing more than the extraction industry while ignoring the will of the majority of Alaskans. Cause that’s Continue reading →

Here’s the line that should be enshrined as one of the most duplicitous, disgusting and deranged statements ever found in a resignation letter:

“However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally [and] my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us,” he added.

Yep, Scott Pruitt is demoralized by what we’ve done to him and his family. And none of it was his doing. He was just doing his job and we all piled on so unfairly – including the 13 federal investigations now ongoing into his time at the EPA.

Orange Goo isn’t so much Continue reading →

I understand how, when the Internet and email and all that stuff first hit, trusting people might might have been taken in by bogus emails from African royalty. But now? The generation for which all this was completely foreign has, for the most part, passed on. My generation, the baby boomers, has had plenty of time to learn how to do email, surf the web and spend thousands of dollars at Amazon to buy things we don’t need. So why is anyone still falling for the Nigerian prince scam?

Today, I received an email with the subject line stating that Continue reading →

I’ve got to say that I never shop at Walmart’s on general principle. But now… I may just have to start shopping there. I wonder if they have any fun shirts in my size? Continue reading →

The Fourth of July celebration has always been one fairly free of political flavor. After all, it’s America’s birthday and that holiday doesn’t belong to any particular party or group of people.  We celebrate all that America stands for and has always tried to stand for… freedom, tolerance, opportunity… all those things that used to make us so damn proud and special.

Now, it seems as though Orange Goo has destroyed all that was ever good about America and made it harder and harder to be so proud of our heritage. Tolerance… that started to go away the day he Continue reading →

So Orange Goo thinks that if we eliminate ICE, Americans would be afraid to walk out of their homes. Hmmm….

In actual fact, I am more afraid to exit my home and find a Goo supporter nearby than I am by just about any immigrant I’ve ever met. That’s because Goo supporters tend to have stopped using their brains, compassion or humanity a long time ago. They have substituted hate, fear mongering and ugliness for everything good that we ever aspired to in America.

So yeah. You can undo ICE and I’ll probably never notice the difference. And for those Continue reading →