backwards and in high heels.

Who needs representatives when we have guys like Stupak?

While listening to an interview between Michele Norris on NPR and Bart Stupak, Democratic member of Congress from Michigan, I became outraged. Go figure. It’s so rare for me…
Anyway, I wrote about why I’m incensed over at The Women’s Colony. Check it out and see if you don’t agree. And if you wait long enough, [...]

In Government, Health care reform, Human Rights, Politics on 5 March 2010 with 2 comments

C’mon, Californian’s: Let’s demand better

I ran into the mother of one of Ruby’s little classmates yesterday when I was picking my girl up from school. We’d barely gotten past the daily niceties when she said, “Well, I got my pink slip today.”
She’s a teacher and like previous years, as the state of California faces a never-ending and unfathomable budget [...]

In Government, Human Rights, Politics, School on 4 March 2010 with 1 comment

Going Rogue or Somewhere Over The Rainbow

(Originally published at The Women’s Colony on Tuesday February 2, 2010.)

I had dinner and drinks last night with two friends from my adoption group. One of them has three adopted children. Her eldest, a 7-year-old son, is from Haiti. My friend went there to meet him when he was ten days old. She lived there [...]

In Adoption, Human Rights, Race, Racism, White Privilege on 7 February 2010 with 2 comments

While complete tools, they’re not the *sharpest* tools in the conservative shed. And on that note, happy Friday!

H/T Nick Stoffel, baby lover extraordinaire, KPBS producer and my friend. Yes, I’m name dropping because I’m just a star fucker at heart.

In Government, Human Rights, Mental Health Break, Politics, WTF, Why I'm more qualified than Sarah Palin to be Vice President on 21 August 2009 with 10 comments

Go Figure

I have something to say about citizens bringing guns to Presidential events.
Which is perhaps more inflammatory than the swimsuit worn by that…person…in my previous post. Or, perhaps not. You be The Decider.

In Government, Human Rights, Player Haters, Politics, Race, Racism, Stupid men on 17 August 2009 with no comments

Memo to the fear-mongers

The House Minority Leader John Boehner says that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States for trial and future detention is “…the first step in the Democrats’ plan to import terrorists into America.” I’d like to point out to Mr. Boehner that we don’t need to import any terrorists because we’re breeding them, incubating them, [...]

In Government, Human Rights, Racism, Stupid men on 10 June 2009 with 3 comments

ter⋅ror⋅ism

-noun

the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes
the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government

I am unspeakably sickened by today’s murder of Dr. George Tiller, a man who dedicated his life to womens’ health, despite myriad intimidation [...]

In Choice, Human Rights, Life, Womanity, Women, health on 31 May 2009 with 10 comments