Tag: politicians

  • How Can This Be Happening?

    America is failing its women and girls.

  • Raise Your Hand…

    Fed up? You’re not alone.

  • Let’s Do Away with Political Parties

    Political parties are like gangs.

  • What Is a Typical American?

    Please know that we are not our politicians.

  • That’s Acting

    How do you promote one belief system and yet espouse another?

  • Andy Johnson, or Unethical Politicians are Nothing New

    Not a day goes by when there isn’t some outrageous story about a corrupt politician. I’m relieved that most of us are still shocked by this, but I can feel the cynicism growing all around me like kudzu on an abandoned Southern house. I rue the day when we all become so used to it…

  • Free-Floating Fury

    Right around the time that Trump got elected, I noticed that I was using the “angry” icon in response to a lot of my friend’s Facebook posts about what was happening. I don’t think of myself as an angry person in general, but so many outrageous things are going on in the world these days…

  • An Open Letter to White Supremacists

    First, let me give you my “bonafides”. According to Ancestry DNA, I’m about as white as a human being can be. That always has, and probably always will give me a leg up in society. I won’t even try to deny it. I also won’t deny that I’ve done little or nothing to earn this…

  • Relentless Compassion

    It’s for your own good. Tough love. This is a last resort. Mother knows best. It sounds good, in theory. Like someone has your best interests at heart, and is establishing firm boundaries. It’s about time, some would say. Strong leadership! Yeah! But even the slightest scratch to the surface of this theory reveals its…

  • Liberals Aren’t Exactly Squeaky Clean, Either

    Man, oh man, but it kills me to write that! I wish I still thought politics was a battle of good versus evil rather than a “better the devil you know” scenario. Life would be so much simpler without my current cynicism. I’d like to think there were good guys to root for. But no.…