backwards and in high heels.

Edvard Munchian

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, [...]

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 [...]

Dichotomy: Heidi Montag journeys to become ‘the best me’ while thousands die beneath rubble

An acquaintance of mine blogged recently about some things she’s sick and tired of, and her post inspired me to account for a few of my own. As I racked up my itemized list of grievances, the worst earthquake in 200 years struck the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Oh, Haiti. How you put [...]

It’s most certainly not comparable to Trent Lott’s comment

Michael Steele is a peach.
The Republican Party’s chairman and blackface (double entendre, intended), is calling for Senator Harry Reid to step down as US Senate Majority Leader over a purportedly racist comment he made during the 2008 election. In the forthcoming book Game Change, Reid is quoted as having said that Barack Obama would be [...]

Stupid is as stupid does

The following is an excerpt of an email from a loooooong time friend of mine who is a high school counselor in Texas:
Obama’s speech yesterday – our district gave each school the option to show it, if a school decided to show it they had to give the option for students to watch it or not. [...]

I just really love this guy

My favorite Facebook status update from today:
“Tim Wise thinks he understands the right-wing anger over the President’s education speech & the importance of hard work in school. See, they prefer the last President–the one who bragged at Yale commencement about being a lazy, mediocre C student, and told them how that was ok, because you [...]

Dumbing it down

This is the Old Cedar Mill in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, the quaint and charming town where my husband grew up. At Christmas time, the lone fire department plays classic carols through externally mounted speakers and the notes drift through the air and mix with the scent of sugar from the local candy store, creating a tearful [...]

Bill Moyers on Health Care

After we tucked the girl into bed last night, we watched Bill Maher interview one of my all time favorite people, Bill Moyers. If I were to have a dinner party and could invite any three people on the planet, he would be one of them. Moyers spoke about health care for all citizens as [...]

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.

My dining room table is a numbskull, too

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