Stepping Aside

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 READ MORE

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 READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Oh my God. Where do I even start? First of all, I didn’t watch this trial. Instead I read accounts. I couldn’t watch because I READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. You know the GOP in Texas has completely gone “off the rails” as they say when they instruct the police to confiscate all the tampons READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Does the GOP care about anyone else besides those people who fill their election coffers? I really have to wonder. The GOP controlled House just READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So I’m reading the news and I see an article about Oregon temporarily banning pesticides that kill bees. We had a huge amount die in READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So I just read an article from Think Progress (link to great article about an idiot) about a letter John McCain wrote in response to a situation READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. A hemp flag will be raised above the Capitol on Thursday, July 4th. How ironic. Do we dare hope that this could mean the government READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My father died today. I had no relationship with him because of how he treated me growing up. He was a condescending, creepy guy. My READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Rick Perry is a shitty guy. He made the predictable, misogynistic response to Wendy Davis’s filibuster of SB5. He’s calling another special session next week READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Texas legislature is trying to ban abortion statewide with HB60. Extensive testimony was given last night until it was stopped. Rumor has it they READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Farm bill just failed in the House. Cue the Speaker is a Loser comments. But it needed to fail because of the cuts to READ MORE

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I don’t know how I feel about this classified document leaking that’s been going on. Like most people, I really do want to know what READ MORE