Yes, now if anyone wants to comment, you will have one more hurtle….you will be shown words to type (if I recall, WITHOUT a space between them).  This is because I get 50 to 70 spam ‘comments’ in my mailbox per day that need to be dealt with and I am weary of it.
Those of […]

I don’t know any Iraqi veterans really well, up close and personal, so although I have heard of all sorts of non-life threatening, but certainly miserable medical mystery-conditions afflicting them, I don’t really know how it is for them. But I do know how it has been for my Viet Nam veteran husband of […]

Queen Eleanor, wife to Henry II of “Becket” fame (and yes, I phrase it such for convenience of those who learn what history they know from movies–insulting bitch, aren’t I?) reportedly once said “I was a bad wife, a bad mother, and a bad queen.” I have to admit, having read about Eleanor, I […]

I want to remind you all….and ask you to pass it on and remind everyone.  Tie people up if needed—-but don’t let them go to work on October 17th!  Solidarity with labor and people needing peace instead of endless war.  Call in sick, take vacation…..whatever it takes; stay home, don’t work, don’t spend.  Make it […]

Being the terrible old blood-thirsty pagan I am, this is the end of my year. Some would consider it a horrid parody of the Christian Christmas candle ring….a wreath made of tiny apples sits on a table in my living room, with four candles rising. One is partially burnt, and one will be […]

Just a question to begin: does this little conversation between a worker and his supervisor strike you as reasonable and right?
“I have not been paid in more than a month, my bills are all overdue, I am being evicted from my apartment and we are out of groceries and have no money. Today my […]

….Gone to graveyards, every one.
I am sure, somewhere in America, someone is dusting off that old protest song about where the flowers and soldiers have all gone. Something else is gone, too. Something the song doesn’t talk about, but it used to be in every school social studies book about America: the […]

Someone whose opinion I usually value said something today that made me twitch.   The statement that got me going was to the effect that Cindy Sheehan was wrong to politicize her son’s death, since he volunteered for the Army and apparently knew what he wanted to do as a service member.  A service member said […]