Why The Government Must Not Be In Charge Of Social Programs
This is how the government does things: 1. See a need, usually based on a handful of congressional doomsayers who have suspicious special interests and who can caterwaul very very very loudly. 2....
View ArticleThe Everybody Gets Some Act
You know the name is a joke, right? The way the bill was mangled, spindled, and bastardized — from inception to execution — ensures it provides for anything but affordable care, generally speaking....
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War
The problem with Mike Huckabee’s comments is not that he is stating that women are sluts, nor is it that his comments are a continuation of, or an escalation of the so-called “war on women.” The...
View ArticleRight to Refuse
Media, the Internets, Arizona, and other places are in an uproar this week because Arizona’s state Senate recently passed SB1062, a bill that purports to preemptively protect the religious rights of...
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Church Control
It is argued that human beings innately possess spirituality. And for the purposes of this discussion, I am using the more modern appropriation of the term “spirituality”, which is nicely couched on...
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INTJ, with Venus rising
A phrase, a brilliant phrase, so astonishingly beautiful that it took my breath away popped into my head while I waited for the cook to fix my egg-white omelet.
View ArticleThe vitriol of politics
“My comment about language orthodoxy should include cislanguage cisorthodoxy,” said my slightly to the right of me friend. “The radical cisleft is a lot more likely to launch a vitriolic back-cislash...
View ArticleToo Weird for U.S.
By the time I'm ready to post this I'm sure the news that was hot hot yesterday will be ho-hum. Nevertheless, between yesterday and today, the arguments I've made on-line and over the phone have...
View ArticleConfederate Veterans
In a lengthy thread on (where else) Facebook, in the context of removing the statues of Confederate soldiers, someone mentioned it would be akin to desecration of a veteran's grave because the statue...
View ArticleFirst They Came For the Confederate Soldier Statues …
It is customary for my right-leaning friends to re-quote, mis-quote, appropriate and make up totally out of whole cloth-quote Rev. Niemöller's poem, which is totally ironic because he was talking about...
View ArticleShe’s a Good Conservative …
Somebody that I used to know(1) wrote of Laura Ingraham that it was stupid of her to tweet the insult about the teenager, but also expressed the opinion that “she’s actually a pretty good Conservative...
View Article[Updated] Them Awful Lib’ruls
A long-ago Internet adversary used to sign off his rants by telling everyone he hated liberalism. He epitomized the stereotypical gun-totin’, ultra-Christian, homosexuality-hatin’, whiter ‘n white...
View ArticleA Regulation is a Regulation … or is it?
So conservatives and all of my libertarian friends tell me “regulation bad!” and many of them favor the Twitterer-In-Chief for his actions that strip away regulation, or appointing administrators that...
View ArticleWhat Does Not Kill Me …
I understand the helplessness and the fear of an assault victim. I've been assaulted. I also understand the helplessness and fear burning in the core of men in power, that they can be taken down so...
View ArticleDog Whistles
Let's start by understanding that there is a resistance to accepting something is what it is when the label or definition is put forward by "The Opposition." It doesn't quite matter who The Opposition...
View ArticleAbortion
I am, and always have been pro choice. This topic has been preying on my mind and, in fact, I found myself awake for several hours last night, formulating these thoughts into these three arguments that...
View ArticleI’m here
I don’t post much. I don’t think I have a lot to say, really, that I haven’t already said. I could revisit some thoughts that I’ve expressed here in the past, especially in light of the recent...
View ArticleShowers
I am not a fan of Joe Biden. I voted for him ONLY to try to ensure that unhinged orange freakshow wouldn't win another term. I really wish Joe wouldn't run again and would clear the field for someone a...
View ArticleIrrational?
I cannot comment on their posts on Facebook and I would not wish to. I unfriended them long ago, in part because their ways of interacting with others triggered an
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