Toby is about Class Warfare
My friends over at the Huffington Post brought up Toby Keith's song that sounds like it celebrates lynching. And you betcha, the resentment I have observed by working class white folk over successful...
View Article1972 in the voting booth
Just turned 18 days before the election in 1972, but I was registered and eager to vote. For George McGovern. Some called him too liberal. But around my house in upstate NY, he was considered...
View ArticleGOTV for Claire McCaskill
One of my favorite local St. Louis blogs is Angry Black Bitch. I want to thank her for years of information and cyberspace kinship.
View ArticleIf only I had listened better
I am a lonely progressive Liberal in a really red state. The legislature, house and senate, has been in Republican hands for a while. The governor is now GOP. Missouri has some of the most ridiculous...
View ArticleIt's actually happening!
“It's happening, Reg! Something's actually happening, Reg! Can't you understand?! Ohhh!”Committee, Scene 23The year 2017 was a time for licking our collective wounds and trying to figure out how to...
View ArticleToo Many RWNJs of the Younger Generation
Link here to the New York Times story. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/merriam-webster-threats-lgbtq.htmlOften in social media comments replying to posts about idiocy demonstrated by the...
View ArticleBe careful with your personal information.
I had an argument on the Meta platform about women using smartphone apps to track menstrual cycles. My point was that back before everyone had mobile devices, women used paper calendars. I know that I...
View ArticleSo tired of some School Board members
This may be old news to some of you.Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled.Published on March...
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