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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
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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Tagged feminism, feminist, Hugh Hefner, NBC Fall Programming, Playboy Club, women's empowerment
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I Have a Nightmare
Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It’s a well-known quote to everyone except Republicans. According to the New York Times, recent economic data indicating that the recovery is slowing has “emboldened” … Continue reading
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Along Came Sarah
When I was a child, I loved watching Shirley Temple movies. So much more fun to watch the curly-topped child tap dance her way through life than the alternate fare: war movies. Women rarely appeared in war movies – just … Continue reading
Heads We Win Tails You Lose
Last week Senate Republicans voted down a bill that would eliminate approximately $2 Billion per year in tax breaks for big oil. (Chump change for the five biggest oil companies that reaped $35 billion in profits in the first quarter … Continue reading
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Tagged big oil, corporate welfare, Mitch McConnell, tax breaks, the debt, the deficit
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The Bitches Are Coming! The Bitches Are Coming!
Who will lead the next American revolution? Will it be cell phone-wielding youth, calling their Facebook friends to arms? As their college tuition bills grow and their job prospects shrink, there should be more than enough fuel to light that … Continue reading
Don’t Look Behind the Curtain
I miss Tricky Dick – Nixon – not Cheney. Nixon was the last Republican President to reduce the national debt as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP: the total market value of goods and services produced by a country). … Continue reading
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Tagged deficit, Eisenhower, Nixon, Roosevelt, tax increases, us debt to gdp
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Hostage Crisis #2 and Counting…
So this is how it’s going to be. The Know-Nothing Crackpot Guido Party is going to extort budget cuts in exchange for their votes on any significant issue that comes before Congress. Next showdown: raising the debt ceiling. Every sane … Continue reading
Social Insecurity
Chicken Little is everywhere these days, warning us that the Social Security sky is falling. Republicans like to call SS an “entitlement program” that’s contributing to the federal deficit. It isn’t. It’s a self-funded annuity program. You put money in … Continue reading
Vive la Difference
April 11, 2011: Today, France began enforcing its law prohibiting women from wearing full-face veils in public. This is not an easy issue. While many Muslim women undoubtedly wear the veil because of family, social and religious pressure, others choose … Continue reading
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