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Is There Any Hope for Us?
Conclusions about humanity are piling up in my anxiety closet.
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Aren’t You Tired of Being Scared?
This whole presidential clusterf**k is making me physically ill.
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What I Wish Biden Had Said
I may get an ulcer leading up to this election.
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34 Is the New 45
He’ll never be able to unring that bell.
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Mid-Month Marvels: The League of Women Voters
I can think of no organization that I trust more.
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Hanscom Voter Syndrome. A Disease Worth Avoiding.
Election day has come and gone here in King County, Washington State. We had less than a 26 percent turnout. That astounds me. The state of Washington makes it so easy to vote that it seems like pure heaven to this Florida girl. In Florida, you had to wait for hours in the hot sun,…
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Why Is This One Different?
I have been hearing a lot of people saying that those of us who didn’t vote for Trump need to “get over it,” “quit our whining,” and “move on”. It’s not the first time my person didn’t win. I mean, I’ve lived through Reagan and both of the Bushes, after all. And I did, in…
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%&#@*^% Opinion Polls
As election day drew near and my stress level increased, I took a great deal of comfort from visiting the fivethirtyeight.com website. This is considered the poll of polls. Nate Silver combines a wide spectrum of sources to reach kind of an aggregate on his website. And right up to the big day, he predicted…
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Schooled by Jon Stewart
I will always wonder if this election wouldn’t have gone differently if Jon Stewart hadn’t retired prior to the campaign. To me, he is the epitome of a well-spoken and reasonable human being. Unfortunately the people who needed to listen to him the most were the very ones who never watched his show. More and…
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All in a Huff over Vocabulary Reserved for Women
Recently I had a moral disagreement with someone, so I left. Later he told me that I “stomped out in a huff”. That kind of fascinated me. First of all, I would look rather silly, at the age of 51, if I “stomped” anywhere. And here I thought I was leaving out of respect for…