Watching the news feed nowadays, it seems like the stream of legislated hate, sermonized intolerance, surveillance and just downright abuse from those in power never ends. And it becomes overwhelmingly accepted due to a highly organized onslaught of carefully wrought ad campaigns to make the infringements seem “reasonable”. Or by identifying one group or another […]
Category Archives: Ponderings
Paving the Road Towards Theocracy
“The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion.” 1797, The Treaty of Tripoli, initiated by President Washington, signed by President John Adams, and approved by the Senate of the United States From the beginning, our Founding Fathers were adamant about the separation of church and state. Not […]
The Silencing of Justice
It was another day, another failure to indict a cop for the killing of a citizen. There are protests taking place all over the country. Thankfully, most of them seem to be more peaceful this time than the ones in Fergusen. I have been feeling the need to express how I feel about all of […]
Our Bodies Are No Longer Our’s To Own
I actually had quite a few other things that I had planned on working on today. And then I saw the news of the latest Supreme Court decision. To be honest, I can’t say that I am surprised at the decision. I rather expected it. The many decisions leading up to this one, each […]
Don’t Take Your Guns To Town!
Enough! I mean it, enough already! Enough shootings, enough deaths, enough with the gun slinging propaganda police waltzing into diners with rifles slung across their backs and sides, through parks while children are playing, through the toy aisles in stores, leaving stray guns in their passing. Enough of your bellyaching and yelling about “your” rights! […]
In God We Hate
I shouldn’t be surprised with the news these last months, weeks. I was a child of the 60’s. I lived through the time of desegregation. I spent two of my father’s stations in rural Georgia. And I was raised by a woman who followed the crazy fundamentalist hate mongers of which many are still spewing […]
One Year Forward, Fifty Years Back
Alas, it appears that we are to ring in the New Year with a step to the past. For just before the clocks moved into the midnight hour, the Supreme Court halted a mandate granting a woman the right to contraception coverage under her insurance. In essence, the Supreme Court has deemed the claimed “moral” […]
2013 – Blessings and Sorrows
Its New Year’s Eve, 2013. A time for reflection, for taking inventory of the gifts that have been bestowed in the past year and the prices and sufferings paid. No matter the person, no matter how good or unfortunate the life, the bag is always mixed. There is no doubt that for me, the most […]
When the Smoke Clears
When the Smoke Clears The Boston Marathon bombing, the gunning down of small children, a stabbing rampage on a campus, shootings at malls, in homes. The stories just don’t seem to stop coming, making you want to crawl into some dark corner of your room and just withdraw from this race that each […]
The Eve of 2013
Today is the eve of 2013. Thirteen is such an auspicious number. I cannot but believe that it shall bode well for the coming year ahead. It is the number of the moons that travel the sky through the course of the year. We get but one 13th year in each century. And it also […]