The 1968 Chicago riot that everyone seems to forget
Fifty years ago last week, the Democratic Party held a convention in my hometown of Chicago and every August since it seems that someone, somewhere is doing a retrospective of that tumultuous time....
View ArticleDonald and the attorney general who won't cave—yet
Poor Donald. He is very upset with his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. Sessions refuses to do what Donald wants him to do: break the law. Or at least bend it so that the GOP can retain its hold on two...
View ArticleWomen are angry.
Right after the Civil War ended in 1865, enslaved Africans were granted, not just their freedom, but their full rights as America citizens. For a brief, all too brief, period, they made immense...
View ArticleStress in America, or how Donald Trump is making us sick
Not a big fan of reality television, I never did see why so many Americans wanted to watch a jackass fire people from fake jobs on a weekly basis. Like most reality TV shows, The Apprentice appeared to...
View ArticleJust what are we teaching our children during lockdown drills?
When I was a little girl, the elementary school that I attended in the suburbs of Chicago held regular fire drills, where we all lined up and calmly marched out of the school building in single file....
View ArticleWomen and weed
By the end of 2018, the marijuana business in the United States was worth $10.4 billion and employed one-quarter of a million people in work directly involving the plants, according to Beau Whitney,...
View ArticleAmerican democracy for 'fun and frolic': Should our leaders entertain or govern?
No, I did not watch the so-called leader of the free world deliver his nationally televised address which only re-hashed some of his favorite lies about our southern border. I followed along via...
View ArticleWhen Joshua Tree National Park was my home
It was late afternoon when we pulled into the Cottonwood Springs Campground on that September day in 1989. The only ones there, we sat outside of our motorhome and enjoyed a glass of wine and watched...
View ArticleThe measles virus is not a benign childhood disease
My kid brother could not have been more than five years old when one of those “benign” childhood illnesses led to double pneumonia. Doctors did make limited house calls in those days and since Kenny...
View ArticleWhat's behind the abortion bans? White supremacy requires white babies—lots...
The Trump administration has left absolutely no doubt that the Republican Party is the party for white supremacists, neo-Nazis, alt-righters, white nationalists, and all of the other garden-variety...
View ArticleBook review: 'The Tribalization of Politics'
How did we go from an administration that was the least corrupt, with the hardest-working, most highly dedicated men and women since The West Wing went off the air, to one that more closely resembles...
View ArticleA community read: the Mueller report
I was in my early 20s when five men were caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. (So you’d think it would have...
View ArticleA community read: The Mueller report, Part I
Last week the current occupant of the Oval Office was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos for a television program that racked up disappointedly low ratings for our mighty king of his own imaginary...
View ArticleA community read: The Mueller report, Part II
Welcome to the Daily Kos community read of the Mueller report. We are working our way through the Mueller report at a pace of roughly 100 pages aper week. The introduction can be found here, and Part I...
View ArticleA community read: The Mueller report, Part III
Welcome to the Daily Kos community read of the Mueller report. We are working our way through the Mueller report at a pace of roughly 100 pages per week. The introduction can be found here, Part I is...
View ArticleA community read: The Mueller report finale. Lock him up!
For the past four weeks, I have been writing about the Mueller report, which is officially titled the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. The...
View ArticleThe profit in pesticides appears to be more important than the cost to our...
Somewhere this morning, perhaps in Iowa, or Georgia, or even Ohio, a young toddler is playing in her family’s backyard while her mother calls her to come in and get ready for Sunday school.Her mother...
View Article'Far Beyond the Stars' is more relevant today than when it was first...
When I have had enough, enough of the antics of the current occupant of the Oval Office, enough of the cowardice of his Republican enablers, and enough of the media’s hunger for Democratic...
View Article'When you blow that kind of dog whistle, animals come out'
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called out Donald Trump’s rhetoric early last week in response to the mass shooting in El Paso:"As the leader of our country, I implore the president to set a better,...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood just said ‘No’
Tina was a hair stylist that cut my hair every five weeks when I lived in California. A divorced mother of two teenagers, she was a member of the working poor and made enough to disqualify her from...
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