I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
I told my son that there was a storm that ruined houses and I needed to a minute to do something to give money to people who could help. He said “I can give money! I have too much pennies and quarters!” and scrambled off to bring me some. This morning he asked if there had been kids in the failies who lost their houses and he offered to send those kids toys. This spirit…
It’s time to clean house. Not my house. Not your house. The Houses of Congress and Statehouses and Governor’s Mansions. We need to get rid of any and all elected officials who don’t get that women are autonomous. Yesterday, Representative Todd Akin (R-MO), who is running for the Missouri Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Claire McCaskill made this charming observation: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really…
I’d like to tell you three stories, two bad and one good. I’ll start with the bad. The first bad story is one you’ve no doubt heard already. It concerns Trayvon Martin, a teen-age boy who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer on the grounds that he looked suspicious. We may never know what transpired between the two of them but what is clear is that a grown man gunned down an…
OK, this is going to be one of these posts where I get all long-winded and pedantic. Feel free to quit reading whenever you feel like it. I’ll try to throw in some cuss words to keep it interesting but I may get boring in spite of myself. So. If you’ve turned on the news in the past few weeks you’ve heard a LOT about birth control. Either filthy slutty liberals are forcing God-fearing non-slutty…
Happy V-Day! No, not Valentine’s Day. V-Day. V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. It was started in 1998 by writer and activist Eve Ensler, V-Day events involve performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops, and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You,…
Okey-dokey. I need to think this thing through and I’m going to use this handy-dandy blog of mine to do so. Bear with me here, because I suspect I’m about to reveal some inconsistencies in my own belief structure. Or maybe just areas where different facets of my belief structure overlap in ways that make me choose loyalties. Those of you who follow such things may have heard that a few months ago, acting on…
There’s… I read… I don’t know… Women are in trouble. Topeka, KS is enmeshed in a budget fight about the cost of prosecuting domestic violence. The House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow hospitals to turn away women with life-threatening pregnancy complications if the hospital did not feel comfortable performing a termination. One in five women do not have health insurance. 14% of women live in poverty. Women make 23% less money than…
Last night I went to parents night at my son’s new pre-school. The director read this amazon quote about the importance of caring about all children because when your child need surgery, someone else’s child will perform it and if your child is the victim of violence, someone else’s child commits it. I need to go back and source the quote because there was more too it and it was too wonderful to go uncredited…
Yeah. So. Health care reform. Deeeeep breath… I have refrained from talking about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act up until now because I was professionally involved in lobbying for its passage. People I worked with were involved in the discussions of what the bill should and should not include. Seeing this bill written and passed was one of the pinnacles of my time at my old job: this was a once in…
Remember Billboard Douche? If you don’t, read my post about him. Rehashing the details makes me go all incoherent and angry. Anyway, I’ve been keeping one eye on him to see what the outcome of this case is. I really want the billboard taken down on the grounds that he shared private – and possibly erroneous – medical information about another person in a way that was potentially harmful to her. So far there’s been…
