Stepping Aside

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When did we start fearing the police? Okay, I know that’s a naive question as any person of color can and will tell you. I READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Washington State has written their cannabis rules. Most will need legislative approval. Personal growing has been banned. Evidently this would apply to patients as well. READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Healthcare.gov is having some glitches. Did anyone think this wouldn’t happen? It’s software, people. Yes, it would have been better if the glitches didn’t happen, READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. A few days ago I wrote a post about the Republican party not being a friend to veterans. Apologies if I repeat myself, but clearly READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Bill O’Reilly compared Obamacare to a vicious motorcycle gang coming after your daughter. The brothers Koch sponsored an anti-Obamacare ad that depicts an over-sized Uncle READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Wouldn’t you know that Bachmann and company would take advantage of veterans trying to visit a WWII memorial yesterday. How craven are these people? Well, READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My husband is a disabled Vietnam veteran who receives benefits from the Veteran’s Administration each month. This is what happens when something goes wrong while READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So just when I think the Koch brothers couldn’t go any lower, they do with this ridiculous ad that suggests that Obamacare is like being READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When my boys were at the end of 7th and 4th grades respectively, we decided to homeschool. I didn’t like the environment they were in. READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Evidently CPS workers don’t understand the idea of legal cannabis users. So let me explain this to you.States pass laws. Sometimes they involve cannabis. Get READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s interesting. Every time I either stand up for myself, or do what someone in authority tells me to do, I’m viewed as a bad READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Well, cool. We’re not going to bomb Syria. At least not yet. So that’s something. Syria has apparently agreed to hand over their chemical weapons READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Evidently someone somewhere decided that there were some things that we as a people just wouldn’t tolerate. Using chemical weapons on people is one of READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE