Where Were You on 11/22/63?
I was born in 1969. I wasn't there. I missed the '60's in a big way, though I was old enough a decade later to make my decision that Carter was preferable to Reagan, though I could not vote. I happened...
View ArticleWhere Capitalism and Christianity Meet: The Capitalist Te Deum
The Te Deum or Ambrosian Hymn is an ancient Hymn of Praise often used on festival occasions at the Daily Offices in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and sometimes, Lutheran Churches. From what we can...
View ArticleThe Best Thing About Republican Democracy: No Aristocracy
The best thing George Washington ever did was to refuse to become a King. We Americans, well, the US version of them, tend to be obsessed with nobility, most especially British (though it bears noting...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Late Diary
I had a power outage here, and was on the phone with my brother in Texas and wasn't able to save my diary. I apologize.Let us pray for Nelson Mandela, and all righteous people throughout the globe.I...
View ArticleThe Holy Father Gives Me My New Favorite "Comeback"
In an interview with La Stampa, Pope Francis responded to a question about Rush Limbaugh's accusation that he was spouting Marxist ideology with this statement:"Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have...
View ArticleThe Advocate Names Pope Francis Person of the Year
The Advocate, the nation's largest-circulating and oldest continually published magazine dedicated to LGBT issues and politics named Pope Francis "Person of the Year" in its December, 2013 issue.The...
View ArticleA "Santa" Fox News Can Get Behind: Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet
There's been a lot of talk about the "race" of Santa Claus lately, but not a lot of history on where he comes from. Now, people in the know are aware that Santa runs sweatshops all over Southeast Asia...
View ArticleThe Original Duck Commander: Groucho Marx
With a hat-tip to John Perr's little-read civil war diary I present without comment what I said in his diary: There has only been one "Duck Commander" as far as I am concerned, and it's Groucho Marx.
View ArticleHumankind's Best Friend: And It's Feline
For a long time, people have assumed that dogs are "Man's Best Friend". I grew up with dogs, and like them a lot. But I prefer cats.The internet is full of cats. Some people say that the internet is...
View Article"Dear Aunt May": Letters From Post-War Britain, Part I; "Hands Across the Pond"
I was inspired by a conversation I had with shortfinals in his recent diary on WW II era RAF aircraft to pull out some correspondence between my great-grandmother, "Aunt May", and her niece Dorothy....
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? v8.25: Hungry for Hungarian
I'm not Hungarian--though some of my relatives came from there but they were ethnic Slavs, not Magyars--but I love Hungary and Hungarian food. Having lived for several years in Central Europe, I...
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Geoff the Cat Weighs In on GMB02's Yahrzeit
There will be another diary, but for now, with Geoffy next to me, here is what Virtute the Cat has to say via the Weakerthans. And Geoff and I are in a way better place.This helps me process my...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About Freemasonry?
Conspiracy theories show up all the time about Freemasonry. They show up here, and they show up on the Hitler History Channel and they show up all over the place.What do you know about Masons? Are they...
View ArticleWelcome Brothers: Daily Kos Masons
I have decided that there should be a group on Daily Kos for brothers. Let us keep our secrets, and let us keep our work for social justice.Consider this a kind of virtual Lodge.I'm really moved by the...
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My Husband Green Mountain Boy 02 Left Us One Year Ago Today
Today is the anniversary. One year ago today, a snowy Friday, Terun Sabre Weed aka GreenMountainBoy02 left us for the great beyond. I wasn't with him when he died--I arrived just minutes too late....
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Being Brothers and Sisters
What a horrible experience it was to have to talk to my Brother in Law earlier tonight: one of his sons lost their best friend, and one year ago yesterday we buried Terun, Tommy's twin brother and my...
View ArticleNow I've Done It: I am Running for President
I have always wanted to be the President of the United States. I won't win, but here's my platform:An FDR response to the Great Recession.Economic responsibility and a hike of the minimum wage.An end...
View ArticleBefore There Were Charter Schools, There Were Magnet Schools, and I Went to...
I've been following the battle over Charter Schools between Andrew Cuomo and Mayor DiBlasio in New York. MSNBC has had quite a bit of coverage tonight and it got me to thinking: What's the difference...
View ArticleMPBN Discusses Transgender Issues
Maine may be a large state geographically, but there's only about 1.5 million people here. Heck, Baxter State Park is about the size of Connecticut. However, there is one thing we do well: LGBT rights....
View ArticleWould You Take a Bullet For a Black Female Teen?
Let me introduce you to the man who did.In March 1965, Daniels answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King, who asked that students and clergy come to Selma, Alabama, to take part in a march to the...
View ArticleHeavens To Betsy! It Is My Kosiversary!
Several years ago, six in fact, I joined up at Daily Kos.Now the funniest diary I ever wrote suggested that Santa Claus was a criminal, but later I proposed to my husband here on line. Sadly, he...
View ArticleDigging Steamers, And How To Make Them Tasty
I grew up summering on an island off the coast of Maine, and we liked to harvest our own seafood. Now, we weren't allowed to take lobsters--you need a license for that and it takes five years of...
View ArticleEaster Bunny Arrested in Pennsylvania as Witness and Accomplice in 2008 Santa...
Wooksburra, PA: John Thomas "Jack" Rabbit, aka "The Easter Bunny" was arrested on Friday in a sting operation in Pennsylvania while allegedly attempting to buy counterfeit Cadbury eggs from what he...
View ArticleA Challenge for the Daily Kos Atheist Community: Who Will Write a Diary...
Like clockwork, there are certain agents provocateurs among us who will write broad-brush mockings of Christians at Christian holidays. I'm used to it: heck, I've been here a while. I know the...
View ArticleThe Aristocrats
There's an old comedian's joke called "The Aristocrats". Filthy as you can make it, it was never told to audiences but rather around the proverbial water cooler amongst comedians. Even Jack Benny was...
View ArticleLanguage Ignorance in Maine
I just had a rather interesting experience while purchasing a package of cigarettes (no judgment, please) at the local convenience store.Three lines: one, with young Somali girls in Hijab, bying soft...
View ArticleFront Pagers Hate Religious People.
There are religious liberals. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one, The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson is one, the Right Reverend Barbara Harris--the first woman Bishop in the entire Anglican Communion is...
View ArticleMy Good Friend Comes Out as a Bisexual Cross-Dresser on YouTube, With Video.
Meet my good friend. This took a lot of guts, and yes, I have his permission to post this here. In fact, he was hoping I would. Take a look, and I'll let this stand on its own.
View ArticleWhat Are Your Favorite Museums?
Today, eclectablog had a diary up about the temporary "saving" of the DIA (and long term issues: Do read the diary). In the comments, I said that the Detroit Institute of Arts is in my top five...
View ArticleNOM Fined over 50K, Will Have to Disclose Donor List
According to today's edition of the Porland Press Herald (article at link), the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices has decided to levy a $50,250 fine on the National...
View ArticleLGBT Pride 2014: First Things First--Coming Out
LGBT Pride month is upon us again, and each year I like to kick it off here with a diary about coming out. There's a first step in any process, and in the process of living your life as an open and...
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Drive-By Diary: I Loved Him So Much
I'm kind of persona non grata these days up here in Northern New England. I don't mind. I mean, if people are really your friends, they are really your friends.I'm not sure any of them were. Some of...
View ArticleMy Masonic Lodge Recognized My Husband's Death Tonight
My late husband, whom many of you might have encountered as he was a Kossack, was an identical twin. Tommy, my brother-in-law has a birthday coming up in a few days. Terun, my late husband, died before...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: A Bittersweet Anniversary
Today would be Terun's and my third anniversary and second as a married couple. It would also be his 50th birthday. I am glad I am here at The Rock, sitting just feet from the memorial garden where his...
View ArticleSo We Have Some Wingnuts in Maine: Who Doesn't?
I don't mind Kossack brainwrap's call-out of Maine State Representative Lockman's stupid pronouncements on rape, however, as a voter and taxpayer in the State of Maine, I feel compelled to make sure...
View ArticleHis Majesty, Juan Carlos King of Spain Has Officially Abdicated.
The BBC website has an article. An excerpt:Juan Carlos, 76, signed the bill at a ceremony in the Royal Palace in Madrid, which was attended by only 160 guests. At midnight local time (22:00 GMT),...
View ArticleCalling Out The Meanies
I had a horrible thing happen to me the other year when my husband died. I had to change my lifestyle, too. I also learned that some of my Daily Kos Friends were not my friends (my grandmother before...
View ArticleWhat's For Breakfast: Fish!?!
I had some leftover haddock, and put it in a white sauce and had it for breakfast over toast, which my grandparents and great grandparents might have done. In fact they did do on occasion. Many of us...
View ArticleHorace Boothroyd III Is at NN and Needs Help
In Horace's diary last night it turned out that in accepting a pass and a room from a generous Kossack did not end up in allowing him to get the room. Â tmservo433 put him up for the night, and several...
View ArticleWho Owns Your Toilet Paper?
I had occasion to visit the privy this morning--I know, too much information. However, if you're visiting a privy or having your constitutional in the privacy of a running-water bathroom, we're all...
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In Praise of my Late Husband
It's been rainy here in Maine, on and off, but I have been giving some love to our memorial garden, where both my beloved grandmother, "Nagga" and the true love of my life, Terun Sabre Weed (aka...
View ArticleThe Next Time I Hear We Have A "Border Crisis" I Am Going To Smack Someone...
"Border Crisis"! I'm tired of hearing it. It's a refugee crisis. Children making their way to the border and turning themselves in.What, I ask, has the United States ever done to Chile, Nicaragua,...
View ArticleI Remember Nixon's Resignation
I was five years old, in the Summer of 1974. My family was highly political and solidly Democratic. Grandad, with his hat and John Slattery look would come home from his job as a computer systems...
View ArticleI've Been Thinking About Josh.
Josh was one of my best friends. We worked together in the theatre and he was a reed player in my theatre orchestra, of a big-band nature. I guess I have that in the blood as my great uncle Harry...
View ArticleSleepers, Awake! Occupy Every City
I've had it with nearly everything I've heard here about Ferguson, Missouri and Detroit, and New York, and California, and all of this third-rate third-way baloney.Where are you, Occupiers? We need...
View ArticleMy White Privilege Diary, Part One.
Encouraged by a few people, including Kossack Tool, I'm going to write a two part diary about my experience with the police and White Privilege. I think this is important to do, because it draws such a...
View ArticleFor My Nagga's Birthday
My grandmother's birthday would be, well, the 28th of August. We lost her in 2011.How I do miss her.
View ArticleI no longer have anyting to say about persons of color or gay persons.
I also no longer have an opinion about Israel and Palestine.I have no opinion. I am a good Kossack. I will follow our Leader and Teacher and have no opinions. None whatsoever.I'd like to be appointed...
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