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My Love Affair with Eugene Debs, Socialist candidate for POTUS

My love affair with Eugene V. Debs began when I encountered the quotation below. I did not even know there was a Socialist candidate for President of the United States. And I was an honors student in...

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A Love Song, Not a Diary

Today I found myself writing re: unstructured immigration: I hate authoritarian solutions. Why do Folks think top-down solutions work?. When the news hit that an immigration sweep was going to take...

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Warning! This Diary has No Redeeming Social Value.

After I got done laughing at and making filthy jokes about the Sanford sexual debacle, Larry Craig’s ‘wide stance’ and Vitter’s diaper daze, it seemed there was a brief pause in the sexual soap opera...

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Defeating Religious Authoritarians

The thing to do with these Folks, if you want to remove them from your own life and from the body politic, is call them on their weird sexual habits. They seem to believe that their opinion about my...

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Social Workers are not The Enemy

I write this in response to two diaries:http://www.dailykos.com/...http://www.dailykos.com/...Social workers have a hard job. They are called upon to do hard things that would be difficult for anyone...

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Time to Go to the Mattresses?

I despise the expression 'the culture wars.' The WAR this time is being waged on Gays and Women (oh so sexyfied Sexies who ought to just get with the program that sex is destiny). The concept applied...

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Mourning Murder and Mayhem

I just did not know what to do with myself. It is that time of year in North America. It is gray. It is cold. I had the Blahs. I was just drifting along, aimless as the breeze. I could not think of...

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The Practical Limitations of Government or Dance Like It Is 1975

"Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable." - Finley Peter DunneI am comfortable. I feel pretty safe in my Little Hovel. I tend to think of my government as helpful, for the most part.Because I...

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A Brief Manifesto on Resisting Religious Authoritarians

I smack the stuffing out of Religious Authoritarians, in a Friendly fashion of course. I have gotten good at it. I consider that God has sent me to save them. As Father Lonigan says in The Quiet Man,...

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Gender Confusion

I am experiencing gender confusion. Think of it: Celibate, PolyAmorous, Asexual, Lesbian, Gay, BiSexual, TransGender, Intersexed, Queer.I have been all these things (at one time or another) whenever a...

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Eric Cantor Mon Amour

I just have to say it. I have fantasies about Eric Cantor. Some might call it lust. He gives me Fever.I long to give him the bitchslapping of his pampered little life, the bitchslapping he so richly...

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Twat do you say? Taint listening.

There is another Tempest in the Progressive Teapot. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a "dumb twat." This time the orange pekoe tsunami comes from the front page and the pen of Kaili Joy Gray (one of the...

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God? !@#$%

My friend, unitarianuniveralist asked me in an email "So exactly who or what is God to you." This IS Unitarian Jihad! I am Sister ICBM of Love.http://www.whump.com/...I am a Fool. I am going to talk...

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Ha ha ha ha ha.

My Mojo keeps disappearing and those following my Diaries keep increasing in number.Laughing my ass off.

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Obama Steps Up to the Plate Bigtime

No one seems to have reported about this event. My daughter Jessica brought it to my attention. I think this is a very big deal.http://www.nytimes.com/...I have been angry at Obama and the Democrats...

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"White" and Gone for the Week

I am a Labor Democrat. I never crossed a picket line in my life. See ya; I would not want to be ya right now.The "purge" was adolescent and authoritarian in conception to begin with IMO. What the...

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Child Abuse: What Religious Authoritarians Want for Your State

This will be a short diary. And a most decidedly unfunny diary. I am appalled and beyond disgusted by what Religious Authoritarians approve of and plan for the children of America. What is it about...

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Wherein I End the Abortion Debate

Given the conditons on the ground in the War on Women, I thought I would republish my little Manifesto. I beg the indulgence of those who have read it before.There is nothing to 'debate.'My ova, my...

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The Girl with the Pink Hair

I live with my daughters, the Viper Girls. Both girls are in their Terrible Twenties now. Mayhem and chaos.My oldest, Jessie, has some juicy acquaintances. The girl with the pink hair is one of them....

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A Suggestion for my Fellow FemiNazis in Michigan - A Manifesto

I write political Manifestos because they are quick and dirty and they get the job done. Follow me below the Orange Swirly if you care to read mine. I do not flatter myself that I am as important or...

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