Saturday, July 20, 2019

Where Trump Fails A Simple Knowledge Or Memory Test

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Here's a not-so-reassuring story about our Dear Leader: When President Trump this week met human rights activist Nadia Murad, an Ir...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Why Now? Or On The Timing Of Trump's Most Recent Wrath Tweets

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It's not news that Trump has racist and sexist views.  He ran on those views, after all.  So I am not particularly interested in tryin...
Friday, July 12, 2019

The Cases Of R.Kelly And Jeffrey Epstein. Compare And Contrast.

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From recent news: Singer R. Kelly has been arrested in Chicago on federal sex crime charges, according to two law enforcement officials....
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Meanwhile, At Trump's Golf Resort

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From today's presidential news , anno 2019: President Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Fla., is scheduled to host a golf tournament Sa...

Human Rights For Thee, My Brother, But Not For Me?

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The Trump administration is doing the bidding of Vlad "The Impaler" Putin and of the fanatic religious fundamentalists.  We know...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

On Privilege As Initially Defined: Jeffrey Epstein And Private Law

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The billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested yesterday on sex trafficking charges involving minors: Epstein has been arrested ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

What Was Your First Memory?

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Because this is a holiday week in the US, I feel free not to write about only politics and other stress-inducing topics.  For a change of p...
Monday, July 01, 2019

She Is Not My Type. The Recent Sexual Assault Allegation Against Donald Trump.

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"She is not my type."  That's partly how Donald Trump responded to the allegations that he had sexually assaulted Jean E. Ca...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

And Our Dear Leader Speaks About The Demise Of Liberal Democracy

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This is funny : President Trump held a lengthy news conference Saturday in Osaka, Japan, during which he displayed his apparent igno...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

And Alabama Keeps Moving Toward Gilead. The Case Of Marshae Jones.

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In Alabama, the state which takes The Handmaid's Tale not as dystopian fiction, but as an instruction manual about the proper care and...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Children In Cages At The Border: A Feature, Not A Bug.

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I rarely write about certain topics*, even when they are of great importance, even when I worry about them every single day.  That's be...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Friday Coleslaw: The Finnish Cabinet, A Rose, The Female Bomber Pilots in WWII and Conducting-While-Female

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This post is full of random stuff, like a coleslaw.  Enjoy. 1.  The new  Finnish cabinet has more women than men.  It does ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

On Political Allies. In Housecleaning

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A recent UK Guardian article , about even liberal and progressive men not sharing housework fairly, has a bizarre headline*: Want to b...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Today's Granola Post: A Study on Women's Advancement in British Universities.

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Granola posts are good for you!  I'm the parent who is making you eat your granola, because it will help you grow big and strong and sm...
Friday, June 14, 2019

In Alabama, Rapists' Fatherhood Rights Rule

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Alabama's extreme forced-birth bill is not the only Tealiban*-type move there against the awful possibility that women might have some...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Women's Soccer. Or On Fair Pay And Using A Doll's Head As A Ball

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Because it's the time of this year's Women's  World Cup*, several articles about women's soccer in more general terms have ...
Friday, June 07, 2019

He Always Hated Women. Or WaPo on Misogyny and the Alt Right.

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About ten years ago I spent quite a bit time surfing some of the nastiest male supremacy sites, and became very troubled by the trends I ...

Books As An Anti-Depressant in the Trump Era

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My own fiction reading for pleasure is rapidly sliding back in history.  The further I am from the present era and its myriad problems, th...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

The Centenary of The Nineteenth Amendment

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The Nineteenth Amendment passed the US Senate exactly one hundred years ago , the House having passed it a few days earlier: The opening ...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

Echidne's Music Hour. Pekka Streng

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I learned about Pekka Streng , a Finnish musician,  only yesterday.  He died in 1975 at the age of twenty-six, of cancer.  He knew that he ...