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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.

Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.

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68 Articles, 5114 Quick Links, 3803 Comments, 86 Diaries, 0 Polls

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Friday, August 19, 2011 at 6:31:20 PM

Quicklink : "Data Show More Children Are Growing Up Poor. Now What? - Mo"

What can I say?


Friday, August 19, 2011 at 5:56:13 PM

Article : "Bernie Sanders: America Needs a Bold Jobs Plan"

A bold jobs plan, one jobseeker at a time


Friday, August 19, 2011 at 5:37:33 PM

Article : "The Kids Count"

Kids aren't invisible, are they?


Friday, August 19, 2011 at 5:20:23 PM

Article : "What we have to fear isn't just fear"

Ed, I wrote to describe the psychology of young children


Friday, August 19, 2011 at 3:28:15 PM

Article : "What we have to fear isn't just fear"

when people are confronted with hardtimes


Friday, August 19, 2011 at 9:00:19 AM

Article : "What Might Martin Luther King Say To Obama Now?"

1968 was a test between LBJ and MLK


Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 7:22:54 PM

Quicklink : "Dateline: Aug 17, 2011: San Francisco Area's BART Pulls a Mu"

Lloyd, vulgarizing systems software


Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 1:28:38 AM

Quicklink : "Dateline: Aug 17, 2011: San Francisco Area's BART Pulls a Mu"

I started programming computers in 1966


Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:59:40 PM

Quicklink : "BART's Misguided Actions"

easy to say


Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:28:29 PM

Article : "SF's BART Pulls Third World Dictator Move; Cuts Cellphone, I"

I've lost track of circumstances leading up to this


Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 3:51:25 PM

Article : "Looting Frenzies"

I'm a capitalist, not a corporatist


Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 10:41:07 AM

Article : "Need A Job, Jillian? First, Tell Us The Date Of Your Last Pe"

How many ways are there to say MYOB?


Friday, August 12, 2011 at 11:54:02 AM

Article : "America's 14 Most Ready to Riot Cities"

Riots in US cities in the Sixties


Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 3:31:54 PM

Article : "The Divided Left"

sticking to 2012 election


Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:11:56 PM

Article : "Will the US Have a Generation Z Revolution?"

Generic tragedies are overlooked


Friday, August 5, 2011 at 6:54:34 PM

Article : "Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died"

"Nonproliferation" seems to go over voters' heads


Friday, August 5, 2011 at 6:40:28 PM

Article : "Writing the Tea Party Epitaph is Not Just Premature but Absu"

People with various forms of rancor


Friday, August 5, 2011 at 7:54:15 AM

Article : "The Debt Ceiling Crisis: Let's Get Personal"

Culture of consumption spelled out


Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 12:22:02 PM

Article : "They Think Of Us As Slaves ( small note with big conclusio"

Two separate poles - freedom and slavery


Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 9:57:25 AM

Article : "They Think Of Us As Slaves ( small note with big conclusio"

To be a slave is something I never considered


Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 11:11:28 PM

Article : "Shop and Shoot"

If we think the sky is falling


Monday, August 1, 2011 at 8:22:29 PM

Article : "Fresh Evidence That Health Insurers Value Profits Over Peopl"

I believe doctors should have professionalism recognized


Monday, August 1, 2011 at 1:19:14 PM

Article : "Coward- In- Mischief"

In the 21st century looking at one nation and its leader


Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 2:20:20 PM

Article : "Heading Toward Economic Ruin"

What fear factor will arise next?


Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 9:46:24 PM

Article : "The Great American Guilt Trip"

On SS, Wed Aug 3 will tell


Friday, July 29, 2011 at 2:18:35 PM

Article : "The Great American Guilt Trip"

Well thought out, Mary


Friday, July 29, 2011 at 10:06:58 AM

Article : "Ubasuteyama, USA"

Economic factors make Social Security different


Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 5:09:51 PM

Article : "We are the United States of America, the greatest country on"

Good article, Congressman


Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7:43:21 PM

Article : "Barack's Big Blunder"

Just hold on


Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7:13:18 PM

Article : "Balance is the Key!"

yvona fast


Monday, July 25, 2011 at 10:55:01 AM

Article : "Norway's Agony, and Responsible Reporting"

Media speculating instead of investigating


Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 3:14:00 PM

Article : "Ray McGovern to Gov. Brown on Prisons"

California, yes! But other States also


Friday, July 22, 2011 at 11:26:43 AM

Quicklink : "The Sordid History Of News Corp.'s Roger Ailes"

Rupert bought pure venom


Friday, July 22, 2011 at 8:59:50 AM

Article : "Teach Your Children--A Rock and Roll Epistle"

Learning and teaching are interactive


Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:56:16 AM

Article : "Washington D.C. and the War of Competing Genetic Defects"

Is it "culture of consumerism"?


Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 3:29:07 PM

Article : "Murdoch's Minions Helped Steal 2000 Election for Bush"

And then James Baker was ready for SCOTUS


Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:30:02 PM

Article : "Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans' Phones Were Hacked"

Just thinking about Ailes


Monday, July 18, 2011 at 2:35:34 PM

Article : "Social Security - Thanks Frances Perkins"

Thanks, Yvona, for bringing up Ronald Reagan


Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 6:19:52 PM

Article : "Revolt of the Grannies!"

check out my new article


Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 3:30:16 PM

Article : "Social Security - Thanks Frances Perkins"

We are all in this together


Friday, July 15, 2011 at 9:12:04 PM

Article : "Revolt of the Grannies!"

Mary, in Congress - how about Barbara Lee?


Friday, July 15, 2011 at 7:29:34 PM

Article : "Revolt of the Grannies!"

Hear this - we need allies


Friday, July 15, 2011 at 7:22:27 PM

Article : "Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While Americans' We"

Okay, Congressman - show your stuff


Friday, July 15, 2011 at 6:54:05 PM

Article : "Revolt of the Grannies!"

Right on, you octogenarians


Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 5:57:04 AM

Article : "Comparing Evils"

Through it all


Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 6:54:14 PM

Article : "Worse Than Fiction: America's Overcrowded Cellar"

I agree language is a gift to human beings


Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 4:07:51 PM

Article : "The GOP Menage A Trois! Corporate Satisfaction Guaranteed!"

Partisan politics obscures real issues


Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 3:49:33 PM

Article : "Worse Than Fiction: America's Overcrowded Cellar"

Mikhail, talk costs little but evaporates


Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 10:26:22 AM

Article : "Taking Us for Fools"

Who says?


Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 10:59:19 AM

Article : "World War Three Is Under Way and YOU Are the Enemy"

It makes no sense to depend on government


Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 1:13:35 PM

Article : "Tales Of A Female Nothing! Dear GOP God, It's Me, Jillian..."

Forgot South Dakota


Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 9:48:31 AM

Article : "America's Collective Uterus"

Fay, it's not just between boys and girls


Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 7:24:45 AM

Article : "Tales Of A Female Nothing! Dear GOP God, It's Me, Jillian..."

Corny as Kansas


Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 6:21:47 PM

Article : "A July Fourth Shame on the Founders"

Confrontation meets "cooperation" vs. "competition"


Friday, July 1, 2011 at 6:53:38 PM

Article : "Tales Of A Female Nothing! Dear GOP God, It's Me, Jillian..."

I have a passel of Eisenhower Republicans as Kansasrelatives


Friday, July 1, 2011 at 3:07:12 PM

Article : "Tales Of A Female Nothing! Dear GOP God, It's Me, Jillian..."

Mary Pitt, you are a model for us all


Friday, July 1, 2011 at 12:38:56 AM

Article : "Tales Of A Female Nothing! Dear GOP God, It's Me, Jillian..."

I just read


Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:12:01 PM

Article : "Tales Of A Female Nothing! Dear GOP God, It's Me, Jillian..."

Modern irony


Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 5:27:43 PM

Article : "Mugged then Shot"

Human beings were gifted with language


Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 1:56:34 PM

Article : "This Boomer Turns Sixty. Advice?"

Rob, do what I'm doing


Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 6:26:50 PM

Article : "America, The Winter Nightmare"

Mark, please tell me


Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 6:13:33 PM

Article : "America, The Winter Nightmare"

The USA is just that - states united by the Constititution


Friday, June 24, 2011 at 4:09:30 PM

Article : "Concerns Continue to Mount on U.S. Biological Weapons Violat"

Very interesting article


Friday, June 24, 2011 at 3:09:10 PM

Article : "Truth Must Abscond with Power: More on Gore's "Climate of De"

There is an overabundance of consumerism


Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:52:38 PM

Article : "Sentimental Mass Murderer; As the husband kills, the wife c"

A good article -


Friday, June 24, 2011 at 7:49:56 AM

Article : "Obama's 10,000 Troop Spit In The Ocean-- Not Even Close to G"

Arm chair generals and the real ones with brass


Friday, June 24, 2011 at 6:21:31 AM

Article : "Dozens of Father's Days; Decades of Grief"

Ms Christ. Professor Brasch


Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 4:00:28 PM

Article : "The Real Culture Wars"

Being class neutral seems simple to me


Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:28:29 AM

Article : "Wall -- Martians"

Until WalMart came I thought Sears was the pits


Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 3:50:31 AM

Diary : "Working Hard or Hardly Working"

I thought I would go for diaries


Monday, June 20, 2011 at 4:21:13 PM

Article : "More Hate Mail; Now, I'm Deranged"

Rhonda's rhetoric leaves me cold


Monday, June 20, 2011 at 2:48:40 PM

Article : "Feingold to Netroots Nation: Call Out Corporate Democrats"

Keep telling us about Progressives United, John Nichols


Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 7:20:34 PM

Article : "Gaza: Cradle of Killing -- Americans Too"

I read the whole thing


Friday, June 17, 2011 at 8:56:40 AM

Article : "America: Once the Most Respected Nation in the World; What H"

Have Americanization studies been forgotten


Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 2:32:57 PM

Article : "Whither Revolution in America?"

What is a revolution?


Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:53:16 AM

Article : "About bloody time, it is!"

Summers in Greenspan's camp


Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:17:52 AM

Article : "Remote Control Killing Like Sport"

Mark - Other weapons, other protesters


Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 8:53:03 AM

Article : "Remote Control Killing Like Sport"

How things have changed since Vietnam


Monday, June 13, 2011 at 6:51:56 AM

Article : "New Hampshire or Bus: Sarah's No-Campaign Campaign Tour"

Who is media? Who is gotcha?


Monday, June 6, 2011 at 4:06:27 PM

Article : "Socialism and Nazism- The Two Big Differences"

are they both totalitarian?


Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:30:05 PM

Article : "Ethical Lessons from Kanazawa: Recommendations for Writers a"

What is science?


Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 6:35:12 PM

Article : "Continuing Bahraini State Terror"

A tiny island, a foreign fleet, and a regal monarchy


Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 6:15:24 PM

Article : "RACHEL Avnery; a Memorium"

A love story, a eulogy


Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 6:55:10 PM

Article : "Want to know what "race" is or isn't? Don't ask the dictiona"

Mikhail, I don't take race seriously


Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 4:14:42 PM

Article : "Please, Treat Me Like a Dog; Thoughts On Jack Kevorkian"

How the infirm one sees death is relevant


Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 2:57:15 PM

Article : "Thoughtcrime: USA"

once a citizen goes into "maybes"


Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 9:40:15 AM

Quicklink : "Doctors Soften Their Stance on Obama's Health Overhaul"

Is this a case where


Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:48:38 PM

Article : "Health Insurers Have Had Their Chance"

I think wellness care takes precedent over healthcare


Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:26:14 PM

Article : "Get Ready for Digital False Flag Attacks"

When DARPA gave US civilians internet capabilities ....


Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 9:11:54 AM

Diary : "No comment? Nothing New?"

I agree, Lendman is an OEN assett


Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 8:17:37 AM

Article : "Memorial Day 2011: Two Names That Matter"

Such a thoughtful story


Friday, May 27, 2011 at 6:10:39 PM

Quicklink : "Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg Label Suit 'a Fraud'"

SFgate posted the news because it's Dot.Com


Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 1:16:32 PM

Article : "The Man On The Way To Be Beached"

What is a lie?


Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 5:56:14 PM

Article : "The Man On The Way To Be Beached"

We are all victims of a corporate culture.


Friday, May 20, 2011 at 8:32:36 AM

Article : "The Audacity of Hate: Birthers, Deathers, Deniers, and Barac"

sometimes a simple response might help


Friday, May 20, 2011 at 12:47:37 AM

Article : "Obama, Tell Netanyahu -- Don't Mess With Flotilla to Gaza"

Isn't it wonderful?


Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 12:38:43 PM

Quicklink : "Pride in Obama Makes his Trip to Memphis all the Sweeter"

Even a Mississippi flood can dampen the mood.


Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 9:42:46 AM

Article : "Strange Bedfellows: Ayn Rand and the Tea Party Christians"

Trickle down proponents depend on noblesse oblige


Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 10:09:09 AM

Article : "Congratulation Obama For Hitting Terror In Pakistan, But Now"

Thank you! Thank you, Muhammad.


Friday, May 13, 2011 at 2:36:27 PM

Quicklink : "Obama's "Singular' Mother - Book Review"

Dunham is thought to have promoted microfinancing.

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