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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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. READ MORE

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