When I tell the story of my career path I often use the image of a mosaic. I […]
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For the last week I’ve been listening to the chatter about the Congressional Budget Office report about the […]
There has been a lot of discussion lately about poverty in the US both because of the 50th […]
It’s taken five years but I feel I am now fully trained. I got really excited yesterday when […]
The budget shenanigans of the 112th and 113th Congress have irritated me more than any other idiocy they […]
So it all boils down to this.
The GOP does not believe health care should be a government responsibility. War, prisons, executions, walls to keep immigrants out, tax breaks and subsidies for billionaires, restricting and limiting voting, these are all the governments business, but not health care. Unless that health care has to do with women’s reproduction, that of course is an acceptable place for GOP noses to go poking.
…almost everything! The Republican sideshow we are being forced to endure is not only irresponsible, its destructive.
I just got a 16 page memo from a federal budget office about how to proceed with grant funded work if the shutdown goes forward. This does not affect the work that I do very much, but there are many others who will be hurt by this.
Moral restrictions on medical procedures. That is the framework of the anti-abortion movement and other conservative positions. My […]
I am very disheartened. I can’t even muster any rage at the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting […]
School funding in my state is a giant, tangled unconstitutional mess in which our state legislature is currently […]
My husband is traveling for work. When he is home we wake up to the alarm, her turns […]
I am predicting the tag I will use the most on this blog during the next four years […]
Every year around this time I feel compelled to inventory and “use up” overstocked items in my house. […]
I was going to call this post “My Republican Neighbors” but it is really about more than them. […]
While I have not engaged in a scientific study I do believe I have recently heard the Worst […]