There will be no more comments from "Dick."
It all started with my posting on Facebook the albeit provocative but IMO very funny picture of a gynecologist examining a woman to whom he is saying: "I see the problem. You have Republicans in your...
View ArticleFracking Was On The Menu And Contempt Was On The Plate
I was hoping that our intrepid Fish Out Of Water would write a diary about the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) meeting for public comment about their draft proposal for...
View ArticleAction to Turn Out Women Voters in NC (UPDATE)
We have a terrific effort going in North Carolina to get out the women's vote. It involves hand writing a letter to targeted women voters--the ones who are infrequent or new voters. We are urging them...
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Woman-To-Woman GOTV In NC
We have a terrific effort going in North Carolina to get out the women's vote. It involves hand writing a letter to targeted women voters--the ones who are infrequent or new voters. We are urging them...
View ArticleA Quote To Ponder In Romney Video And It's Not By Romney
At EconoMonitor economist L. Randall Wray singles out a quote (he calls it shocking) from one of the people sitting around the dinner table at Romney's fundraiser. This anonymous (to us) diner is...
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A Cautionary Tale About A Dry Christmas Tree
Like many sentimental souls we had left our live Christmas tree up until last night. Our less than month old tree seemed OK; its needles were green and the stand it was in had been kept full of water....
View ArticleAaron Swartz and the Choices We Have To Make
I weep for Aaron Swartz. Today on Democracy Now Lawrence Lessig gave us insight into this brilliant man who died--hounded to death in the most literal sense of the term 'to hound'--to torment. When...
View ArticleChimps On The Loose In Kansas
Are we seeing a possible insurrection in Kansas? Is it the beginning of Planet Of The Apes? All I know is the chimps have escaped from the Kansas City Zoo and who knows where they are headed.At...
View ArticleThey Asked For Comments About The Relocation Of Confederate Monuments–My...
I do not believe statues commemorating the leaders of the Confederacy belong in the public commons. The people who led the secession and who fought against the Union were traitors. The war they fought...
View ArticleHey Twitter: Shut Down His Account Now—Just Shut It Down
This, of course, is not the only offensive tweet issuing from the tiny fingers of our Stochastic Terrorist in Chief. He has poisoned the public conversation with virulently racist and anti-immigrant...
View ArticleRemembering an Epidemic, A Personal Story
It was the spring of 1952 in Sioux City, Iowa when the Floyd River and the Missouri River flooded. Sewers backed up, the slaughterhouses and stockyards flooded. My dad and grandfather built sandbag...
View ArticleNBC Asks: “Will Pediatricians Send Their Children Back To School?” I Send...
NBC Nightly News ran a moronic and dangerous segment last evening. It was titled: Will Pediatricians Send Their Children Back To School? and it featured five pediatricians yukking it up about how they...
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