I'm sorry to say that Joan Walsh and I are no longer friends, and that's upset me.  No more gossipy girls' lunches or hour-long telephone calls, no more whispery confidences about who's doing what with whom, no more laments...
I am writing this post to fulfill a promise I made to Kes awhile ago, but I think it will be interesting to a few.  Sometime back in the early 1980's I was sitting in my office chatting with an...
Last Thursday, The GOP released their "Pledge" to America and the only positive thing one can say about them after seeing what's in it is that Republicans finally have shown they believe in recycling. Their "pledge" was very general, promising...
Midterm election articles
One of Arizona's most famous son's is Barry Goldwater, a five term Senator known as "Mr. Conservative". Republican Senator Goldwater launched a bid for President of the United States against Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and Goldwater was portrayed as...
Had the cutest and strangest experience this morning on the way home from our walk. It was another miserable sweaty walk this morning and there are these tiny little gnats out that we've never seen before. They're teensie-tiny black flies and...
During last Friday's Vox Populi, we were discussing how the GOP/Tea Party, assisted hugely by Fox, the MSM and corporations, has foisted this fraudulent series of racist and hateful "issues" on the nation and into our politics. Pres. Obama, being...
Heading out to searing Las Vegas for Netroots Nation and am hoping to provide updates of my adventures in this gathering of godless, communist, socialist, white-hating enemies of America. BTW, should I hit on 16? Hope I don't disappoint, so...

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This Thursday, the premiere annual Progressive convention, Netroots Nation begins. I'm pleased to say that I will be attending, representin' PlanetPOV and our community. All the top Progressive sites, organizations and blogs will be there, many seminars, panels and events,...
So I'm out on my driveway washing my car last weekend, when my neighbor walks by. He is an old Chinese guy in his late 90s. I see him often, making his way to the corner and back, a...

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