Politics

I posted this last week to Facebook, but wanted to put it here as well. Judge Aileen Cannon did her job, and did it well. You only think she didn’t if you think that her job had anything to do with justice. She was put in her position to serve the interests of the 1% […]

So… Biden is officially out of the race. I was worried at first, but I’m not sure that it’s necessarily a bad thing, let alone a devastating thing. He endorsed Kamala Harris to take his place, which was really the only good choice. Now, while, yes, the rapid racists and misogynists are going to vote

Well, I was gonna write up a whole thing about 9/11 on today, the 21st anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center. But I got busy, so I’ll just leave a few memories here. Things I remember from 9/11 and the days after. I remember the media all repeating that this was “like

I struggled for almost thirty years to pay off my student loans. I have paid roughly $120,000 on the $25,000 that I initially borrowed. I owe about $12,000 more, and I’ve been making payments regularly throughout the pandemic and so-called “suspension” of student loan payments. And now, since last year I finally made too much

Twenty years ago, I started my blog. Back then, it was on Livejournal, which later got moved over to Dreamwidth. And, finally, it got moved here to my own web site. That first entry was me sitting in my apartment in Pittsburg, California, watching the protests in my home town of Portland, 700 miles away,

I felt I should say a few things here about the recent Supreme Court decision, especially for those people gloating about it today: Overturning Roe isn’t about reducing abortions. It’s about punishing women who have them. That’s it. That’s what’s going to happen. There are many things that can be done – and have been