Stepping Aside

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. An interesting opinion piece appeared in the Washington Post on August 30 by Betsy Karasik, a former lawyer. She was writing about her views on the Montana case where a teacher and student engaged in a supposedly consensual sexual relationship. The teenaged…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I listened to Melissa Harris-Perry as she read her letter to G.Todd Baugh, the judge in Montana who stupidly blamed the 14 year old child for her teacher raping her. Although he subsequently apologized for his misogynistic statements, his apology…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that as long as states don’t let it be a free for all, they can move forward on recreational use of cannabis. And apparently, this applies to the states with legal medical cannabis as…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So my husband had a root canal scheduled yesterday at the Portland VA Hospital. He’s a disabled VietNam vet and the VA takes care of him. I know all the problems that exist with the Veteran’s Administration, particularly now, but…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So around 8pm this evening, someone knocked on my front door. Now, we have five acres and our home sits down at the bottom of it..over 700 feet off the road. No one comes to my house without my knowing…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I have to confess, I’ve always liked Sanjay Gupta. I remember something about him assisting in brain surgery with the Devil Dogs in Kuwait or somewhere over there. He was there as a journalist I guess, but it didn’t matter….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Mercy sakes. What the hell is going on in Texas? Why are cops doing cavity searches on women by the side of the road? I read yesterday, that a female cop who did this was reinstated on the force because…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Here we go again..only now it’s the DEA who is spying on us. So much is making sense now. The deck has been stacked against us for so long now that they think nothing of trampling on our civil rights….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Well folks, Illinois just became the 20th state to legalize medicinal cannabis. August 11th, Sanjay Gupta will air a documentary on cannabis on CNN that he’s been working on for a while now. We have an important ally. Imagine that!…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. What if we decided to let undocumented immigrants just stay here? Sign them up. Document them. I know folks get all excited at the thought of amnesty, but why not? It would certainly be the compassionate decision. It would be…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When I attended a lecture by His Holiness The Dalai Lama in May, he emphasized the role of mothers in creating a better world. He said that mothers had a special responsibility to make their children feel loved. Boys, in…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love it when President Obama has an unexpected conversation with the nation. Even the White House Press Corp. had no idea he would pay them and us a visit today, and his remarks continued for seventeen minutes. It felt…