I Think Our Voices Were Heard
Two weeks ago I uploaded a diary ranting about my school and how inconsiderate the school board was being towards us student, by not allowing us to have a voice. When I posted it I had no intention of...
View ArticleJust A Reminder ♥Saturday/March For Our Lives Rallies March 24th-Find The...
Don’t Forget This Saturday-March For Our Lives Rallies March 24thFind; The March For Our Lives Event, Near You.Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Students Washington DCKnowledge, Is Power! Voting...
View ArticleVeterans take on the NRA in a powerful, must-see ad. Wow! #NeverAgain...
This you just must see. x YouTube Video Veterans for Gun Reform: It was my duty to finally speak out in a way that would reach a lot of people The story of how and why this ad was made is told here.“I...
View ArticleIn D.C.,100s of 1000s now in March for Our Lives. 100s of sister marches also...
Hundreds of thousands of young people and their allies are participating right now in the main March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. The student-organized protest seeks to give U.S. leaders,...
View ArticleTrump's Solutions to Solve the Opioid Crisis
Thank God I retired years ago. One of the legs of President Trump's plan to solve the opioid crisis is to institute the death penalty for drug dealers. Pharmacists deal with and dispense narcotic...
View Article“This is how you know the Parkland students are winning.”
He is one of my very favorite Twitter feeds.Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau is once again on point.Jon sums up, in one tweet, why the Parkland students are winning. xThis is how you know the...
View ArticleIn case you missed them, or want to listen again, here are 17 speakers at the...
Below are speeches delivered Saturday at the Washington, D.C., March for Our Lives. That march, which officials estimated drew 800,000 participants, was one of some 840 such events in the United States...
View ArticleEducation, gender, and generation gaps in party ID are now larger than ever
One of the many topics that Pew Research releases polls about is the subject of political party identification (or “party ID”). Every even-numbered year before a national election, you can count on...
View ArticleConservatives belittle marchers—while the NRA peddles conspiracy theories...
As the nationwide fury over flimsy national gun laws continues, the National Rifle Association insists they are not, in fact, the conspiracy-peddling domestic terrorism lobby that their critics have...
View ArticleOn This Palm Sunday, Pope Francis Tells Young People To "Keep Shouting."
The man whom many Catholics regard as God’s emissary on Earth, the successor to St. Peter, and the ultimate authority on Catholicism has weighed in on this weekend’s student-led protests against gun...
View ArticleOne Protestor's View: A Worm's-Eye Account of the March for Our Lives in Fort...
I had spent my Friday evening after work making my protest sign. I’d never made one before: during my 20’s I missed out on the Occupy Wall Street movement because I’d been one of the working poor....
View ArticleAfter the Heart Attacks - update on my sister, Ann
Friends, lately I wrote about Ann's heart attack in February and her return by ambulance to the ER the week after because of chest pain. Here is an update on what has gone on since.Week before last,...
View ArticleIt's About All of Us.
It’s not about the 99%. It’s about the 100%.Old people march to support a high school anti-gun crusade. White people march for Black Lives Matter. Men join the Women’s Marches by the hundreds of...
View Article♥Happy Easter And Happy Passover♥
Knowledge, Is Power! Voting Info-2018 For My Constant Muse Dr Theodore Adams Prof of Sociology♥♥Easter And Passover♥ ♥Happy Passover Everyone♥Jewish HolidaysPassover RecipesPassover For Children /...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing 3/31/2018: Confessions of a Spammer
This morning, I opened the door to head out to my mailbox when I found a Chinese takeout menu hanging from my doorknob. This is only about the hundredth time this shitty Chinese restaurant has spammed...
View ArticleWe’re seeing a teacher-led backlash V years, decades, of Republican efforts...
In Kentucky, a very red state! Wahoo! America is waking up. As this wave of unrest among teachers spreads nationally, it’s clear it has been inspired by the nine-day strike that won West Virginia...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View Article♥Easter And Passover ♥ Greetings And Good Wishes♥
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View ArticleMichael Flynn Jr. Says David Hogg's Parents Didn't 'Smack Him Much' As A Kid
Everybody is getting into the Ingraham-Hogg fray, including Michael Flynn, Jr., who opines that the reason David Hogg didn’t willingly accept the nice Nazi lady’s apology about his college prospects is...
View ArticleDaily Kos at Netroots Nation 2018!
The 2018 election cycle is already shaping up to be the most intense, most volatile, and potentially most amazing midterm we’ve ever seen. Every day, the dedicated staff at Kos Media, including Daily...
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