No, I do not give a damn about winning back racists, sexist bigots to OUR...
BIG TIME RANT. Read no further if all you want to tell me is to “get over it”, or it’ s your own fault for having a “flawed” candidate (cause apparently the male candidates are never “FLAWED” they...
View ArticleSo maybe before we can really resist, we need to know how we got here????
During my years of teaching, I tried to impress on my students, young though they were (Grade six), that “nothing happened in a vacuum”. Whether it was science, history, geography or math, I...
View ArticleSomething to break up, interfere with my sense of doom, my fears.....or not.
So just as I try to get through each day saying to my self, “I can resist, I must resist, WE can resist, WE must resist”, I begin to read news notes here and there on my FB feed (as this is how I...
View ArticleThe Twilight Zone, and self improvement, and, SIGH, the Trump Voter......
So has anyone else been watching the Twilight Zone marathon on the Syfy channel? I am not much of a football fan and frankly, the parades and stuff appeal to me less and less as I age. As well, this...
View ArticleI need to rant: STOP giving kudos to R's or media Rs for FINALLY saying one...
I do not know why (some) people are shocked at the republican party’s open betrayal of the constitution, ignorant support of white militias, obnoxious pettiness about all things progressive. I do...
View ArticleNo, Mr Todd et al at the MSM.....both sides do not do it. Stop enabling the...
Network News from Chuck Todd to Brian Williams to Chris Cuomo etc etc etc AKA MSM sound like the parents of the bully trying to justify actions with “they all of do it”……This “both sides” are...
View ArticleIt is almost 50 years since I “came of age” and I think my head might explode…
In 1967, I graduated college and began my career as a teacher at the age of 21. In 1968, I was 22 and poised to be able to vote for the first time because back then the voting age was 21. In...
View ArticleI need answers, but I KNOW some questions are unanswerable. Still, I know I...
I need answers, but I KNOW some questions are unanswerable. Still, I know I can count on you, here, the folks at Daily Kos to help me feel less frustrated, find some humor in the situation in which we...
View ArticleSO who can we count on when the revolution comes to town.....
As I sit here in disbelief, sound off on the television but still nauseated as I read the closed caption presser of the evil man we now call president and his cabal of evil white men (and one white...
View Article"And the Children Shall Lead" : And I will follow and march with them on...
“And the Children Shall Lead….” I know these words originated from a quote somewhere in the old testament. Looked it up and apparently, according to what I found it is not exact. The exact quote is...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Pundit Class, to Journalists, Talking Heads
and especially to the Females in these Groups:At nearly 73, I have been around for a long time. I watched the Watergate hearings as a twenty something. In college, I protest against Vietnam (and...
View ArticleProcrastination is the Thief of Time. An essay from a senior citizen upon...
As I approach my seventy-third birthday this month, thoughts flood through my mostly still intact mind and memory. I am one of the lucky ones. From a family where longevity is a rarity I...
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Some days are harder than others....WE must stop the rise of hate!
I am a teacher, albeit a retired one. In these times, I think I am glad to be retired though I miss much of what inspired me to become an educator. I do NOT miss “Shelter in place” drills. I do NOT...
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*&% you, Brokaw and the ignorance of continuing the stupid, xenophobic cr*p
So I am retired, from PUBLIC education, and yet I am having difficulty in understanding some things. I was born at the very end of 1945, after the war had ended. I consider myself a baby boomer...
View ArticleDon't understand how the children and grandchildren of immigrants, support...
How do they support a republican party that clearly is doing to immigrants, people of color, what was done to their own families. See: Deep Roots of White Nationalism from The Atlantic....
View ArticleSick of hearing this: economic insecurity in the heartland. Reach...
No I WILL NOT understand, worry about or believe Trump voters about anything!! Why I am so sick of the "worrying about the Trump voter, heartland people" meme? So the decent "midwest, heartland...
View ArticleI was HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO. Now, disappointed, disillusioned and...
Holding Out for a Hero has been a favorite song, ever since it was played for one of my favorite protagonists in a fictional drama. The song is catchy and uplifting because in the end, I...
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DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE from The Twilight Zone is here. Anyone else feeling it?
On the morning of Nov 9th 2016, I was holding the youngest grandchild. She was 15 mos and was sound asleep in arms. She had had a little cold and was napping. I remember so clearly whispering...
View ArticleFB, Cambridge Analytica enabled the corruption of the 2016 election, but it...
Some have suggested I make this into a diary, and so I have:Watched “The Great Hack”about Cambridge Analytica and I agree….they used social media to do bad things. But I contend the table was set long...
View ArticleSEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.....we teach our children to do so; shouldn't we...
SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.....we teach our children to do so; shouldn't we expect at least as much and more from adult citizens, especially those with access to power? As a retired...
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