Are we ready for the canonization of St. Liz, of Cheney, Martyr? Lifetime Catholic MoDo isn’t buying it: columnist Maureen Dowd bats away the shiny new blond miraculous medal. She won’t kneel, or even lean, to light the votive candle. Her trouble is, mea culpa, Dowd remembers. And talks. How uncouth, and inconvenient: Maureen Dowd, … Continue reading A Tale of Two Conservatives: Liz & Longwell
Quote of the Weekend: Here’s the part of the COVID Relief Bill we’ve all been waiting for (in case you nodded off listening to it being read aloud in the Senate): “subsection (a)(1) of such section 314 shall be applied by substituting ‘91 percent’ for ‘89 percent’” and “without regard to requirements in sections 658E(c)(3)(E) … Continue reading Do You Speak legislativ-ese? Me Neither.
Just about every day, Facebook pops up on my personal page a post & photo from this date some year in the past, as a memory. The other day, a photo came up on FB of me, taking nap recliner, while mischievous granddaughter, seven, piling stuffed animals and stuff on my torso to see how … Continue reading Coping with General PTSD
I knew it would happen, and knew I wouldn’t like it, but I did it anyway. The third “it” above was start a Facebook group called “Quakers,” about a month ago, after a previous one abruptly folded up: some internal hassle among the admins had spun out of control. I wasn’t involved in the hassling, … Continue reading Biting the Bullet: Truth and Consequences
February is not only Black History Month, it’s also Lincoln’s month: birthday (the 12th); holiday (the 15th, tho he currently shares it with some old & about-to-be-canceled slaveholder named Washington). Lincoln is an endlessly fascinating and enigmatic character. (And speaking of canceling, he just got tossed as namesake of San Francisco high school by a … Continue reading Frederick Douglass, on Lincoln as a White Man’s President & the Memory of Emancipation