I have spent the morning online arguing with a friend whose final barb against what I posted was the original author wasn't nuanced enough - not that my friend disagreed with the original premise, mind you, but that the post was an oversimplification of a complex issue ( Read more... )

Certain folks who stopped talking to me over my views on women's ability to make their own choices for their own lives have just found themselves hoisted by their own petards. Evidently, if the father believes it's a woman's responsibility to make contraceptive choices - since she is the one who will be walking around with the bullet lodged in her ( Read more... )

One of my closest believes in his heart that the Federal Government will become a complete fascist state; and when that happens, the jack-booted thugs will attempt to kick in his front door to confiscate his weapons, only to find he's packed up his family and belongings to disappear from the grid. He's a smart guy, seen some parts of the world most ( Read more... )

On the surface, she's pro-life; peel back the layers and you discover that she's actually pro-choice, she just prefers women choose life. She longs for a world where abortion is unnecessary, but understands that's not possible in this life - if abortion is going to be a possibility, she wants it legal, safe, and regulated ( Read more... )

A friend of a friend called me out on Facebook today ( Read more... )

Seems all I'm ever doing is calling out the ignorance of hypocrisy of one politically charged statement after another, whether on Huffington Post or Facebook or MySpace. Day after day, week after week, I read something so blatantly wrong, either factually or contextually, that I have to point out the error. Not that it helps - pointing to the ( Read more... )

The Speechifier in Chief spoke before both houses of Congress, then turned around and had a pow-wow with just the Republicans last week, and in both cases he reminded me of why I voted for him: he's a grown-up.

Unlike the last guy to hold the job, the Prez didn't spout out how great the state of the union was even though the economy was teetering ( Read more... )

Oh, I've got plenty to say about last night's State of the Union from the Speechifier in Chief - ain't got the time today. Promised I'd get something done before leaving mi casa this morning, mi computer took a sabbatical last night and now I'm behind schedule. Damn dirty schedule ( Read more... )