Brothers 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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