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(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 17, 2010 10 Reasons Women Aren't Funny
Buzz about the Daily Show freezing out women writers created a ruckus about TV comedy's glass ceilings. But--is there method to the discriminatory madness?
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 7, 2009 Eight Little Dolls
"The sins of the parents..." and narcissistic personality disorder.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 23, 2011 UARS Terror
Life is filled with dangers and terrors. When will man stop adding to the risks?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 21, 2017 1984 Has Landed
It takes a village, a national digital village, to keep Animal Farm sheep in line.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 22, 2011 The Canary in the Coal Mine or The Shot Heard Round the World?
Greece's struggles may provide a glimpse of American's future. This is a different war, and we're on the losing side this time. This is a war between entitled, rapacious narcissists and sociopaths, and the other 90% of the world they are seeking to indenture and enslave.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 9, 2019 Missy, You Failed the Test
Pro-choice doesn't always mean women will make the right choice.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 28, 2009 A classless society?
Are we no longer a classless society? Not exactly.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 17, 2018 Free Speech--IF We Approve
Net neutrality may not be enough to ensure that the public only hears the party line.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 13, 2011 How Dare They!
Chipping away at our constitutional rights and our presumed freedom.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 15, 2016 Where Is My Party?
One on the left and three on the right. Where is the center?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 10, 2017 It's a Dog Eat Dog World
Your rights end where mine begin? A curmudgeon vents about a new trend.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 24, 2008 The Death of Mid-life
A mid-life crisis is poorly named. It's really an end-of-life crisis and a Call to Judgment.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 28, 2016 Eavesdropping on a Summer's Day
The upsetting Georgia video that should motivate our society to make major changes in how we raise our children--and ourselves.
SHARE Sunday, March 25, 2018 The Game is Afoot
America is unlikely to win, and the 99% around the world is likely to lose.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 6, 2017 The Un-American No-HealthCare Act
Blaming victims of illness and making healthcare pragmatically unaffordable and unavailable applies only to the 99%.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 4, 2018 Round Up the Weed Killers
Protecting us from the Killer Weed? Or protecting their investments in the War on Drugs?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 28, 2015 The Americans
Coming of age in a world of secrets.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 7, 2012 Pension Envy Promotes Serfdom
Machiavellian manipulation by the 1% leads the 99% to fight itself, and lower standards of living for all.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 4, 2011 I Want My Country Back!
It's clear now that we have one party government, and "the people" it's for ain't us.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Illegal, but not Alien
It is our duty to help children of undocumented immigrants find a productive role in our--and their--American society.
SHARE Friday, May 29, 2020 Zoom Trumps the Corner Office
Online meeting video software has changed the way America--and the world--works. In some unexpected ways.
SHARE Friday, February 2, 2018 Colleges are for Education, not Abortions
California Bill SB 320, forcing public colleges and universities to provide medical abortions, has been passed by the State Senate. Should doctors be forced to "do harm", and by whom?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 6, 2016 The Nightmare
The Sandman plays a dirty trick on Donald John Trump.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 27, 2016 Diverse Opinions
Is Diversity Synergy or Reversal? A progressive's dilemma.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 25, 2009 The Crooked Man
Why was Dick Cheney in a wheelchair after all?
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 1, 2009 Death Sentence
Who is really "pro-life"?
SHARE Sunday, July 24, 2016 Ears Wide Shut
Can being mad be a choice? Insanity is sometimes sanity.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 15, 2009 Binge Breeding
Deprivation breeds binging. Will we ever escape the roller-coaster.
SHARE Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Greenbacks and Scams
Time for a true progressive movement in the Democratic party to bring back liberal values to our struggling plutocracy.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Slippery Slap
It's not just about abortion. What about the rights of people of all ages with disabilities to experience life?
SHARE Saturday, April 8, 2017 The Thin Red Line
Is there only one path to successful leadership, and is it paved with good intentions?
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Don't be Recruited by Propaganda
Don't provide the military industrial empire with more soldiers. Work at the grass roots level for peace and equality.
SHARE Saturday, July 16, 2016 Veep, Veep
The race is on. We'd better get out of the way or we could be road kill.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 6, 2008 Oh, God
"Is there a God?" is the wrong question. We should be asking, "Are there human Satans?"
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 28, 2014 Won't Get Fooled Again?
It's not too late to keep the 80s, 90s, and 00s from wiping out the last embers of social democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 17, 2016 Female Apartheid Lives
Where does cultural sensitivity stop and oppression begin?
SHARE Tuesday, June 19, 2018 AP or not AP, Is that the Question?
AP classes and exams offer an opportunity for high school students to demonstrate their academic skills and abilities and compete with applicants from around the world at top universities--without the need for a fat wallet.
SHARE Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Joe McCarthy Redux?
Shifting values, mores, and cultures from Ancient Rome to the 60s keep us struggling to catch up with the latest do's and don'ts. Women in Turkey are giving up their miniskirts. But, will they be shamed for wearing them before Erdogan?
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 13, 2009 Take Back the Power!
A call to arms--no more collective punishment for the innocent.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Very:Light Verse
With a tip of my hat to the great Ogden Nash.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 23, 2017 Look Over Here
What are we marching for? A better question is 'Who are we marching for'?
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, February 19, 2010 Tiger and Dick
Is the real problem Tiger...or Dick?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 23, 2011 Hey, You, Get Offa My Cloud!
If the Cloud becomes our repository of culture, our culture may be repositioned.
SHARE Thursday, November 10, 2016 Rigged?
Trump was shock and awe. But maybe more awe than shock for some financial interests.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 25, 2017 Republicare
Crocodile tears for the defeat of the Affordable Care Act replacement?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 23, 2010 Machiavelli invades Sacramento
California Politicians are dipping into the Machiavellian tool kit to stir up divisiveness among workers.
SHARE Tuesday, June 28, 2011 A Greek Tragedy
Curiouser and curiouser--what's behind the Greek turmoil? Follow Alice down the rabbit hole for an intriguing story. Fiction, of course.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 9, 2015 Don't Think, Drink
Second thoughts after fear and sadness. Dangerous?
SHARE Wednesday, May 8, 2019 The Play's the Thing
Elections are afoot in the kingdom of Mordovia, and an imaginative playwright knows not how the dice must roll.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Re-covered Memories
Officially remembering 9/11--A booster dose of boosterism.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 10, 2011 Alien Territory
Hatred in Arizona isn't new.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 3, 2014 Don't Sit This One Out!
Don't sit out this election--you have more at stake than you may believe.
SHARE Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Be On Alert
"Minor" head trauma is not always minor.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Baby Blues
Six kids at home, and now octuplets. Did Mom make the right decision...and do we have the right to decide?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 1, 2011 Over My Dead Body!
Reinstating the draft would provide the cannon fodder for the fascist oligarchy to wage endless wars abroad--and at home.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 1, 2009 Baby Blues
Six kids at home, and now octuplets. Did Mom make the right decision...and do we have the right to decide?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Don't "Negotiate" On Our Backs!
Hit the intransigent Republicans with a real threat--to cut the defense budget. Don't negotiate on the backs of the people--we can't take any more pain!
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 8, 2009 You're out!
Human nature is driving us down a dangerous road.
SHARE Tuesday, July 28, 2009 A Mad Tea Party
An idea whose time will sadly never come.
SHARE Friday, May 20, 2016 Too Many Answers
Yet another tragedy. We can't stop them until we discover why.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 29, 2009 The Enemy Within
Obama may be more at risk from inside advice than from outside criticism.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 1, 2008 Baby, I love you!
Grandparents raising special needs children? Maybe.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Leftists who don't vote are gifting the Right
Obama's first two years may have been a disappointment, but allowing his obstinate and dangerous right wing opponents to capitalize on their obstructionist strategies and return us to the trauma of the Bush/Cheney occupation is the wrong solution.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 23, 2009 What if?
"If only" gives us an illusion of control, in a world without a purpose.
SHARE Friday, January 29, 2016 The Best Laid Plans...
Tough crowds at those pre-convention try-outs on the road to the Great White House Way.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 5, 2009 Mileage Taxes are Regressive!
Proposed taxes on mileage driven will hit the working and middle class harder than the rich--we don't need another regressive tax.
SHARE Sunday, April 5, 2009 Youth
Dishing on a Hollywood secret.
SHARE Thursday, July 23, 2009 Are you kidding me?
Hee's baack. Yes, Arnold the Actor is back with a slasher spot, but you can't see the blood...
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Separated at Birth
The real reason so many voted for Dubya.
SHARE Friday, January 30, 2015 A Choice Election
Mitt Romney clears the path for a Bush candidacy.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2009 Perks
The only Perks leaders should have are in a cup of java to stay awake and focused on the job.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Currency
The coin of our realm is the coin of beauty and youth.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 13, 2008 PPoh-oh
Our insurance is a fraud!
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Sunshine
Having once dated a CIA agent, long ago I faced the choice between being safe and being free. At a red light, Basyli turned to me and said brightly, "I want to know where you are at all times." I gagged on my coffee and could barely eke out a "Why?" His matter of fact response was, "Because when the Russians attack, I want to be able to come get you and take you to one of our safe areas." That choice is again upon us.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 7, 2008 Feminist Consciousness
Is Hillary a post-feminist, or a prisoner of feminism?