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The 1st anniversary after the #newtown murders - remember the kids shot that day, as the NRA-owned Congress does not care - WE DO! #WeAreN...

Started a Twitter hashtag in honor of this most commercial of seasons: #FirstThingIBoughtOnline: 3-year old cheddar cheese @CabotCoop 12/19...

When I wake up, I check my mail, Facebook and Twitter. All was well this morning. Ran some errands and was back around 9am. Everything e...

As you consider who to vote for in future elections, remember these Senators voted for the United States to default on its debts. @TomCo...

In the "old days" (about 1976 or so), there was an informal Fannish Code of Conduct: Do Good Do No Harm Throw a Good Room Pa...

I live in a reddish area outside of Pittsburgh, so my Congressman, Tim Murphy and Senator, Pat Toomey are both pretty solidly Tea Party (th...

I originally published this on Facebook on July 12, 2011 at 12:35pm. However, it pathetic that our "talk-lots/do-nothing" Congre...

I've been extremely troubled by a rash of police pre-emptively shooting people, generally black men. Isn't the slogan for police ...

I'm generally an independent person, but the Republican party has gone so far to the right over the last 20 years that I haven't v...

Wouldn't you know that during the year after my hysterectomy, public discussion of the uterus is more popular than ever? Despite my...

Did you know that we now live in a country where some of the states are now legislating state-sponsored rape while gagging doctors' ab...

(last updated 11/22/2024) Under Elon Musk, Twitter...err X was rapidly going downhill. It became "MuskyTwitter" and stopped b...

There has been an epidemic of reported rapes in the military over the last few years. So what does the Senate Armed Services Committee de...

On Mother's Day, I stumbled over a lovely essay by one of the Newtown Mothers...and it made me want to remember each of the kids. I wo...

On Mother's Day, I stumbled over a lovely essay by one of the Newtown Mothers...and it made me want to remember each of the kids. I wo...

I sometimes make surprisingly long posts in other people's blogs. I responded to a posting and some comments in the blog The Skeptica...

On April 29, I was disgusted (though not surprised) to read that a Republican Congressional Representative wanted to do away with using pee...

After months of arguing, and a rare bipartisan proposal between conservative Democrat Joe Manchin (WV) and conservative Republican Pat Too...

And the answer is... every single Republican in the House . So when you want to know why the minimum wage continues to stagnate at a ti...

We must always remember who voted against this bill - especially during the 2014 election. I know my representative, Tim Murphy voted aga...