Negative is the New Positive: Part I

I knew if I just hung on long enough, the world would eventually come round. After all these years of being abused and shamed for my so-called negativity, it’s suddenly becoming chic.
The first time I recall being chided for negativity was by a friend on a snowy mountain in Vermont during a high school senior [...]

True Madness

From Judith Warner’s excellent op-ed in the New York Times today:
“Stupak-Pitts passed not just because a group of Catholic bishops bore down on Democratic lawmakers. It passed because it could. Maybe because our cultural memory is short; because our fantasyland nostalgia for a world of stay-at-home moms and gray flannel dads is too great, because [...]

Will We Gain Health Care but Lose Abortion?

Grrrr! My blood pressure is going sky high. To read the whole story, click on the first phrase below.
WASHINGTON – Catholic bishops have emerged as a formidable force in the health care overhaul fight, using their clout with millions of Catholics and working behind the scenes in Congress to get strong abortion restrictions into the [...]

Joe Schmo Lieberman

How irresponsible is it for an American Senator to pronounce the attacks at Fort Hood an act of terrorism before anyone’s even spoken to the attacker? Lieberman seems to want to whip everyone into a post 9-11 frenzy over this unfortunate, and probably much more complex, incident. This is not to defend the shooter, or [...]

Poets in the White House

You wanna see some fantastic poetry/spoken word/rap, head on over to Poets.org for a White House event from last May.

From the PR email:
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted students from American, Gallaudet, Georgetown, and Howard Universities in May 2009, allowing them to participate in an evening celebrating poetry, music, and the spoken word.
“We’re [...]

Sugar Daddy / Sugar Baby

In our ailing economy, even Hugh Hefner is plagued by financial troubles, on top of which he’s also juggling romantic problems, perhaps for the first time in his 80-something years. The combination of the two put Hef into the news spotlight recently—so it seemed a good time to post this slightly revised excerpt of [...]

Roman Polanski

ROMAN POLANSKI: Wanted and Desired
A documentary film by Marina Zenovich 2008

I wonder if the people who’ve been calling for Roman Polanski’s head—and his body, back here in the USA—know all the confusing details of the case? I suspect not; if they did, they couldn’t possibly see the issue in stark black-and-white terms. But if they [...]

Universal Insurance

So it looks as if, instead of universal health care, what we’re going to get is mandatory universal health insurance, with employers and individuals responsible for themselves, and a punishing fine if you don’t buy it. WTF?!
I should’ve been out there screaming and hollering with the crazies. Turns out they’re not so crazy after all.
The [...]

Not My Kinda Town

I’m having one of those days when I’m convinced I was dropped off here from some other planet. Call me an alien (as in alienated), but I just cannot relate to the crying people of Chicago. Rejected! It’s shocking! Absolutely unbelievable!
There could be, and probably are, about a million reasons the IOC chose Rio de [...]

Go, Dave!

He didn’t try to redefine the English language. He didn’t clear his throat and look down at his shoes, ashamed. He didn’t force his wife to walk out onto the stage and hold his hand while he confessed his sins. And he didn’t pay a blackmailer two million dollars to shut up.
No, David Letterman, separating [...]