Stepping Aside

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Can we please stop calling assault by one’s spouse/partner/boyfriend, domestic violence? We tend to create labels that actually diminish in our minds the seriousness of the crime. It’s personal. It’s between a couple. Somehow, it’s not as important. And before…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. And here we go. Washington State Liquor Control Board, in its infinite lack of wisdom, is proposing to allow over 200 possible pesticides on cannabis sold in the new retail outlets. I guess that’s one way to control people..make them…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I just read an article in Think Progress (link below) where Ranjit Sinha, India’s Chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation, said that if you are raped and can’t stop it, you might as well lay back and enjoy it….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Dear President Obama, It’s me, your unabashedly supportive cannabis patient and adoring fan. And I mean that. I knew you’d be our president when you spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Seriously..my husband and I were watching the convention…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. A guy rolls through a stop sign, gets pulled over, and his nightmare begins.. Supposedly he is observed by law enforcement to be “clenching” his buttocks. So of course..drugs!! Obviously he has a ton of something up there. A judge…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I got back home this morning from my walk in time for the end of the love fest for Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. I guess it lasted for hours and maybe I should be thankful that I missed most of it….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I first discovered A Course In Miracles in the eighties. I have begun the Course many times over the years. I’ve heard that’s not uncommon. It’s a “required course” as they say, and once I heard that, I was on…

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 mean, there’s always been a certain amount of fear because of who they are and…

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. Current law allows up to fifteen plants. Once again, legalization is accomplished at the detriment…

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, but as I said, it’s software. When in our lives has this not happened? And…

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 the GOP and its Tea Party puppet masters don’t give a rat’s ass about veterans,…

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 Sam with a speculum in hand, ready to do untold things to the college girl…

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, after shutting down the government, these idiots helped these folks break in to the monument,…