Palin’s future, according to Garrison Keillor

I’m not a fan of A Prairie Home Companion.  In fact we turn off the radio if we happen to be near one when the show starts.  Or if we wander into it unexpectedly.   But I am a fan of Garrison Keillor.  He’s smart, articulate, well-considered and bold.    He makes me think.    And he’s done [...]

Obama uses hypnosis!

Today I read the most absurd statement. It was a comment posted in response to self-appointed Obama hater, Andy Martin’s press release that he’s filing court papers to sue for Obama’s birth certificate. Shirley tells Margaret, another commenter, not to worry. She knows what’s going on.
Shirley Says:
October 19, 2008 at 3:41 am
Margaret [...]

Gloria Steinem on Palin

Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women — and to many men too — who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote.

Truthiness Stages a Comeback

Great article.
Truthiness Stages a Comeback
By FRANK RICH
New York Times
Published: September 20, 2008
NOT until 2004 could the 9/11 commission at last reveal the title of the intelligence briefing President Bush ignored on Aug. 6, 2001, in Crawford: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” No wonder John McCain called for a new “9/11 commission” to “get to the bottom” of 9/14, [...]

Courageous Women

‘Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity,‘ repeats Connie Schultz in her 2004 column about the 
women’s suffrage movement.  It was sent to me in an email a few days ago.  And it’s sparked my curiosity  The truth of it is that I don’t know much about it.  I know the names, Susan B. Anthony [...]