Republicans and the No Abortions, No Exceptions (except for me) Mentality
Here they go again, lining up behind Todd Akin, who delusionally believes he wouldn't abort a fertilized egg to save his own life. I'll bet Paul Ryan, when he called Akin during the "legitimate rape"...
View ArticleThe Less Obvious Fallacy Beneath the Republican Push for "Personhood"
I didn't expect to post another diary this soon, but Doonesbury went there this morning. http://doonesbury.slate.com/... (Those who missed Trudeau's biting cartoon sequence on "Silent Scream" in 1985...
View ArticleMy Daughter and the ACA: Why We Still Need Single Payer
One of my two daughters was born with a complex, highly variable genetic disorder capable of affecting virtually every organ system and associated with a high risk of cancer. Now approaching 40, she...
View ArticleNot to defend Jim Lehrer, but...
What should a moderator do when a debater flagrantly and unfairly ignores the rules? I wanted Lehrer to step in (and if not Lehrer, then the seemingly helpless Obama) when Romney, after insisting on...
View ArticleRepublicans, Rape, and Pay Equity
I watched the whole debate. As it progressed, I kept saying to my husband, "thank god Obama brought up women's health in his pay equity answer!" Mitt's mendacious "binders full of women" has gotten the...
View ArticleRepublicans and the Fight Hard, Fight Fair (except me) Mentality
After watching Rachel and Lawrence yesterday, then waking up this morning to see two Rec'd diaries side by side, one about Republicans discarding voter registrations in Virginia, the other about...
View ArticleAbortion and Foreign Policy: Let's hope this comes up in Monday's debate
A timely reminder from an editorial in yesterday's Gray Lady, A World of Harm for Women http://www.nytimes.com/... Romney plans to reinstate the gag rule on Day 1 of his administration:Mr. Romney has...
View Articleomens: I got a present from a crow
I'm at the stage of anxiety about this election where I start looking for omens. I realize this is irrational, like wearing only black underwear to the Operating Room (as I did throughout my surgical...
View ArticleSomething That God Intended
I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is...
View ArticleIf You Want a REALLY SCARY Halloween Costume, go as President Paul Ryan
With all the punditizing over which Mitt will show up in the Oval Office, and about the muzzling of his get-ye-to-a-poorhouse, beans-over-women running mate, has anyone seriously contemplated the...
View ArticleWTF with OFA and Washington State voting
This from a friend in Seattle, where all voting takes place by mail and apparently there are no polling places. Here's what Barack Obama is sending out (emphasis mine):Friend -- This election will come...
View ArticleRape Sperm, Meet the 21st Century
Much as I'm appalled by the neolithic views Akin, Mourdock, Ryan, Mandel et al have sincerely (!) expressed regarding rape, I share the sensibilities of some diarists who find them hilarious at a...
View ArticleThe Extreme "Pro Life" Position as a Psychological Defense
My father, a strict 1930's Catholic, was an officer in the John Birch Society, as I've mentioned elsewhere. Shortly before President Kennedy's assassination, when I was 14, he told me privately in all...
View ArticleSandy as God's Will (not)
Remember how in 2005 the religious right blamed Hurricane Katrina on abortion and gays, calling it a punishment from God?Less than two weeks after the Hurricane, Pat Robertson implied on the September...
View ArticleI want a President who can bluff and dissemble
I want...a President who can bluff and dissemble when necessary to deal with America's enemies...a President who can shade the truth for the public good, to get legislation passed or to get a point...
View ArticleTax Expert Smells a Rat in Romney's Taxes, calls it "fraud" -- UPDATE x 2
In case you missed this by Zach Carter at Huffington today (Oct 29, 2012) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/..."respected tax attorney and deficit hawk" Calvin Johnson has outlined his suspicion of major...
View ArticleLawless Greed plus East Coast Hurricane: The Lost Colony of 1590
Watching entitled equity pirate Mitt Romney pretend to care about victims of Hurricane Sandy, after tall ship HMS Bounty sank in the Atlantic, I was reminded just how far back our roots go, here in...
View ArticleMitt Romney, Tax Revenue Pirate
Not even the stench of Sandy's sewage-filled floodwaters can drown out Romney's smelly, smelly taxes.Calvin Johnson, the tax expert who alleges fraud in Romney's tax returns (diaried here two days ago...
View ArticleClimate Change in the Paranoid Mind: A New Ice Age is Coming!
The "ice age" meme has been around a long time. I recall my John Birch Society father perseverating about it during the Fifties. It has the advantage of being scary, true (several thousand years from...
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Omen Update: Crows and Rainbows
This is our third double rainbow since the day before the second Presidential debate.As I diaried at 7 AM the day of the debate, the rainbow the day before struck me as a good omen for Obama/Biden,...
View ArticleTruth vs Profit in 1898 Louisiana: death from media suppression
My husband startlingly resembles his great-uncle Walter, or rather Walter's photo. Walter died at 28, in 1898, leaving a wife and three young children. The yellow fever that killed him had been...
View ArticleMinimum Age to Vote, Drink, Smoke, Marry, Fight for Your Country: Our Weird...
Dealing with my election anxiety, which thanks to Nate Silver is more or less limited to Republican fraud and voter suppression at this point, I was reviewing the history of voting rights in this...
View ArticleAnxiety and Elections Here at DKos
Yesterday a worried first-time diarist was hounded to the point of deleting his diary and posting a second diary to apologize for the first. To their credit, Kossacks quickly assured him that some of...
View ArticleScience Achieves Fiction: "Perfect" Invisibility Cloak
Move aside, flim-flam wizard of Oz. Move aside, magic red shoes. (I saw that Judy Garland's Oz dress sold for $480K this weekend.) We now have a magic invisibility cloak on the horizon. A team at Duke...
View ArticleThe Private Side of Republican Crazy
I grew up in a lower middle class Republican family. We had Protestant relatives, lapsed Catholic relatives, rich relatives, even (shame of shame) a divorced relative, but never a Democrat that I knew...
View ArticleStatins: here we go again, or why I retired early from practising medicine
Once again, a respected standard-promulgator of a large medical specialty - in this case the American College of Cardiology - has been persuaded to recommend blanket prescribing of an expensive [or not...
View ArticleUnrealistic? Compared to what?
I am tired of being told by self-proclaimed “realists” that they know what I think, when they don’t. For example Ruth Marcus in yesterday’s piece at the Washington Post "Bernie Sanders’s supporters...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's YUGE electability problem
HILLARY CLINTON’S YUGE ELECTABILITY PROBLEMMy daughter the one-percenter, an Ivy-educated San Francisco web expert and a staunch progressive, is furious at the Democratic establishment for...
View ArticleCarbon footprints - Hillary vs Bernie
Tuesday evening I attended a fascinating lecture by Steven Gardiner, author of A Perfect Moral Storm: the Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2011). Professor of Philosophy and...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be bought?
Jimmy Carter the other day called Citizens United “legalized bribery.”Hillary Clinton last night angrily labeled Bernie Sanders’ implications about her reliance on contributions from Wall Street an...
View ArticleHillary’s fundraising pickle: without Wall Street, her campaign is toast
Ben White at Politico makes some interesting points in today’s piece, “Why Clinton can’t stop raising Wall Street cash…” (LOL, spellcheck’s substitution of vice for vize in the subtitle, “Bashed by...
View ArticleSorry Hillary, if you weren't the establishment, more Democrats would be...
Danielle Allen writing at The Washington Post has a few words of advice for Hillary Clinton and her rejection of the establishment label in Thursday’s debate:Don’t use this line again: “Senator Sanders...
View ArticleHow Team Clinton Manipulates the Press, and How the Press Takes the Bait: An...
This just up at Gawker:This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She WantsHer minions specify how famous writers must describe her, in exchange for access to transcripts of her speeches. Pure,...
View ArticlePolitical revolution, an American tradition to be proud of
For those who aren’t just repeating Clinton talking points when they worry that Sanders’ push for political revolution makes him naïve if not un-American, The Washington Post has an op-ed piece that...
View ArticleFormer Clinton White House counselor Bill Curry skewers neoliberal Clintons...
Don’t miss Curry’s piece over at Salon, about false Clintonian attacks and failed, unlearned-from, Clintonian strategy in an ossified media environment. It’s a see-through-the-BS,...
View ArticleKavanaugh's false premises about his calendar that had me yelling at the screen
In his twitchy 50-minute opening tirade, Kavanaugh claimed that his calendar proves his innocence because none of his Saturdays in the summer of 1982 shows a gathering like the one Dr. Blasey Ford...
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