Stepping Aside

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

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE