In the comments on the “Jesus was a community organizer” post (and elsewhere), my illustrious sister Maia weighs in. She’s been mayor of a small town, a talk show host, etc. and has her own observations about Palin. Personally, I think Maia underplays her own qualifications; unlike Palin, she understands the market and foreign policy, […]
For close to eight years I have watched George Bush piss away a comfortable surplus and plunge us into a huge deficit; fritter away decades of goodwill overseas; use outright lies to launch an endless war; display callous disregard to fellow Americans during natural disasters; play cowboy while our economy sank into the mud; and […]
“Turns out there’s a lot of interlinks in our financial system” — George Bush on CNN. Is this man president? Of the United States? Of America? Now the Old Fart will take office, keel over… and we’ll have Little Miss “I can see RUSSIA from my HOUSE!” near the Red Phone. Be Afraid! Register and […]
Arrrr, me beauties, I’ve been so busy being a Community Librarian that I haven’t been Free Range lately. But my post about Sarah Palin had some stretch to it, including a mention in this wonderful editorial in Library Journal, which is maintaining and building a valuable collection of articles about Sarah Palin. You go LJ! […]
That’s a long title but this won’t be a long post, because I’m trying to drag my tired body to exercise before it gets really nasty out. I don’t talk about national politics much on this blog, and it’s not because I don’t have well-formed opinions; it could be that I have too many of […]
I don’t spend a lot of time on this blog on national politics, but I’ve been brooding ever since the Republican Convention over the way Sarah Palin sneered at and mocked community organizing. There are many other things that bug me about Sarah Palin — including how much mileage she gets from lying about not […]
On November 11, Veterans Day, Kore Press will release Powder, an anthology that “brings us poetry and personal essays from 19 women who have served in all branches of the United States military.” I am one of those 19 women, and this anthology will feature my essay “Falling In.” (I spent 8 years in the […]