No Duty To Retreat
An uncomfortable truth is hidden under the national discussion about music being played too loud, and the hoodies that criminals wear. Racism is not going anywhere. I feel this observation […]
Tag Archives: blame
Un-Wealthy
There has been a lot of discussion lately about poverty in the US both because of the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s War on Poverty, and the proposed extension of federal […]
Running
Writing about violence is much like writing about rape. As a culture we understand the definitions but it gets fuzzy when we move from the general to the specific, or […]
Perverted
Of all the things going on in the world I don’t know why this one thing made me so sad. Our local paper today picked up a story about Southern […]
Multitasking
I am torn about my blog post today. I am suffering from split focus, attention deficit, mommy syndrome, something. On the one hand I am busy stimulating the economy for […]
Paper or plastic
I have several pages of bulleted notes for blog posts that I couldn’t get to this week for a number of reasons too mundane to share. Anyway. Since I am […]
Stay-at-home
I was reading an article the other day on the “new trend” of dads being primary caregivers which is trotted out as a new trend in the news cycle every […]
33 1/3
As much as I would like to be talking about music, I am instead compelled to write about the 33rd house vote to repeal health care reform (that’s ACA to […]
A Plan
I need a plan for dealing with passive-aggressive people. Or an inoculation. If I do some research I bet the Internet will yield herbal supplements, self-help books and scads of […]
Personhood
I could have just as easily called this post “Doublespeak” or “Having your cake and eating it too”, but I am too irritated to be literary or historical right now. […]
you say you want a revolution
People in the media (and in general conversation) keep yapping that they don’t know what the Occupy Wall Street folks want, ‘their demands are not clear’, ‘they have no agenda’, […]
Friends Gone Bad
I am officially down to my last dysfunctional relationship. After years of slowly weaning myself from the needy, the dependent, the lonely and the walking disasters, I think I might […]
"See, God’s punishing you" – A Croan that Explains it All
My parents had a unique sense of justice. Pain, humiliation, defeat, failure – these were all gifts from God that were bestowed on you because of something that you did […]
