Monthly Archives: July 2011

Shape Up or Ship Out! (I’m talking to you, Tea Partiers.)

I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot lately.  He was a lifelong Republican except for the time he voted for FDR.  I wonder what Dad would think about what’s going on in Washington, D.C. these days. When his kids … Continue reading

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Shake it up Baby: Congressional Reform Act of 2011

The Following proposal has been making the rounds on the Internet and has appeared in the body of several comments in the New York Times.  It may be a better solution than one I’d thought of, which was to let … Continue reading

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WARNING! Do not iron clothes while wearing!

My dad had a saying about people with no common sense:  “They must have been behind the door when the brains were handed out.”   And then there was Voltaire who said, “Common sense is not so common.” According to Republicans, … Continue reading

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Hoppin’ Down the Bunny Trail

Oh boy, finally a feminist TV show coming to an NBC station near you.  At least that’s how Hugh Hefner spins it.  The Playboy Club, a new show airing this fall, is set in Chicago in the sixties. According to … Continue reading

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