Image credit: Photo by the italian Jonathan on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few days ago, a columnist I generally like wrote a satirical piece on sex addiction rehab (one I won't link to here, due to its triggering nature). He's a liberal columnist, so the comments were populated with lots of LOLs and [...]
Posts under ‘politics’
Set Apart
Image credit: Photo by timabbott on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A recent NY Times opinion piece on toxins and autism has been making the rounds lately, and well, frankly, the piece bugs the crap out of me, and I can't quite figure out why. After all, it seems like, not just an excellent idea, [...]
Conspiracy Theories
Image credit: Photo by CowGummy on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It started off innocently enough years ago. She would forward me the usual stories warning me that I should watch out for snakes in McDonald's ball pits or people out to steal my kidneys or serial killers who would lure me out of the [...]
Experience, Strength and Hope
Image credit: Photo by jaxxon on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A little less than a year ago, I moved my blog to its own URL, and when I did so, I had the opportunity to reread many of my old posts as I updated broken links (still not all fixed, by the way). As [...]
It’s Not About Sex
Image credit: Photo by Leo Reynolds on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons With the story of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's week-long disappearance to visit his mistress in Argentina buzzing about, we're faced yet again with a barrage of images of a public figure tearfully apologizing for his infidelity, while his job hangs in jeopardy.* [...]
My Vote
Image credit: Photo bymacwagen on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons It's the day of elections here in the U.S., and I'm ready to vote as soon as the kids get home from school. Mark thinks I'm crazy, but I'm taking the two of them with me to the polls. He shook his head this morning and [...]
Election Eve
This is the tenth and final post in a series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election. Image credit: Photo of atotally kick ass pumpkin byladybugbkt on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons This election season has been my perfect storm. I came in emotionally raw, haunted by the ghosts of the [...]
Getting Nowhere Slowly
This post is the ninth in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election. Image credit: Photo byfeastoffools on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons Recently, I've noticed a particular tense, worked up feeling I get about how wrong other people are. It's a kind of quivering moral outrage [...]
Visual Assault
Cross-posted at Two Women Blogging It's election season here. Streets are lined with red, white and blue signs pushing various candidates and various positions on the issues. Several neighbors have large lawn signs letting the rest of us know where they stand. There is a tan house with white trim that sits a fair walk [...]
Sarah Palin and the Myth of Special Needs Supermoms
This post is the seventh in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the third post about the candidates themselves. Sarah Palin and I have very different moral, political and spiritual beliefs. We have had very different experiences as women and mothers. I'm sure there are [...]
