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Jun 16 2017
I Should Have Been A Girl Scout
Not that I have any unresolved gender issues (ok, maybe a few, see Twain about candlesticks and their holders) but simply because it’s an all together more worthwhile organization than Boy Scouts. My experience in the BSA was horrible and I regret every Jackass minute I spent watching a bunch of idiots trying to light …
Jun 16 2017
Simon Doesn’t Say
In the new news Theresa May’s attempt to save her Prime Ministership by entering an arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland is still an undone deal a week after the British Parliament Elections. It seems there are a couple of problems. First, and probably not least (gonna give the Tories a break …
Jun 15 2017
Liberal Rhetoric
Senator Tillis, I think you probably know who I am. I am the mother of a young man who died because he lacked access to health care. You had me arrested for trying to speak to you when you were Speaker of the House in North Carolina about the importance of access to health care. …
Jun 13 2017
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Hie thee to Economics. This stuff is not rocket science. Going Private: The Trump Administration’s Big Infrastructure Plan By Dean Baker, Truthout Monday, June 12, 2017 During his campaign, Trump had made a point of complaining about the poor state of the country’s infrastructure. He had a point, as both the federal and state and …
Jun 13 2017
Capo di Tutti
Have I mentioned I was capo di tutti? Well, I was. Right at the beginning, there was this hyper secret Executive Board training session which most incoming capos used to fête their team by buying an afternoon’s worth of booze (we do love our Chianti) and “bonding” (before we allowed women this usually consisted of …
Jun 12 2017
Schrödinger’s Tapes
We live in a quantum state, hardly a democratic one. It’s not utterly impossible that an apple shall suddenly lift off the ground and fly back to its place on the branch, it’s just highly unlikely in this universe and though space is big, really really big, and time is long, really really long, it’s …
Jun 11 2017
Abusing Bentonite- Not Quite A Rant
Just Say No! That makes me think that the Police Officer himself, that ‘”Certified Narcotics Officer”, is a moron. Wonder what the apple cheeked hate goblin is going to say on Tuesday. Of course it won’t be in public.
Jun 10 2017
Leftovers: The Belmont Stakes 2017
The last of the Horse Races and I can safely ignore them until next year. The Belmont Stakes are perhaps the most democratic of the Triple Crown Races, held in Elmont right next to Queens (yes, you read that correctly. It’s an unincorporated Census designated place with no ‘B’ in it at all). Indications of …
Jun 10 2017
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
Did I tell you to stop gloating yet? Did I say, “Simon Says?” There you go then. Now you may well ask yourself why I’m choosing to focus on this instead of the many other great and terrible things that are happening and the answer is I’ve been diagnosed with clinical Depression and Anxiety as …
Jun 09 2017
Joy At The Sadness Of Others
Ok, so I lied. I think gloating is very important, so much so that it should be considered one of the 4 basic food groups along with grease, salt, and chocolate. In my rise to capo di tutti I found nothing as important as poor sportsmanship except remembering to strike first without warning and kicking …
Jun 09 2017
Not Gloating
No, not me. It would be beneath my dignity. After losing her majority in an unnecessary election, Theresa May now wants ‘stability’. But we shouldn’t gloat by Mark Steel, The Independent Friday 9 June 2017 The important thing now, says Theresa May, is to enjoy a “period of stability”. This is always the tricky part …