Category: Politics

At the time this post was published 18 students and 9 faculty members at an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, were killed execution-style by a lone gunman. This is the 4,000,000,000th mass shooting in the last 20 years, and I’d had enough. I blogged my frustration. I just don’t understand America. Or at least, […]

When the campaigning for president originally began, about two years ago, America was a very different place. Obama hadn’t lived up to the progressive ideals that he had sold to his voters in 2008 and, two years later, Republicans swept to power in the House of Representatives with the single largest gain of seats in […]

I once tried to do something pretty edgy. I dated a Republican. It was a really tough thing to do and, in the end, it just didn’t progress beyond the initial going-on-a-few dates phase. The guy was kind of an asshole, but also, he was a vocal defender of The George Bush, and I really […]

President Obama has never been a “legitimate” president in the eyes of the right wing in the United States. During his campaign in 2008, they accused him of “palling around with terrorists” when he began his career in politics. They called him a Muslim which, by most definitions, is a legitimate religion — but not […]