Can’t WAIT to read this book! “Here’s a thought: it is truly difficult to have a conversation without really listening to the person we are talking to. Not only do we no longer listen but, we thanks to a new technological innovations, we don’t have to. Instead we enjoy making our points so much […]
Category: Social Issues
Ice bucket challenge ‘narcissism masked as altruism?’ Oh for Pete (Frates’) sake.
“It’s like a game of Would-You-Rather involving the entire internet where, appallingly, most Americans would rather dump ice water on their head than donate to charity,” writes Arielle Pardes at Vice. “There are a lot of things wrong with the Ice Bucket Challenge, but the most annoying is that it’s basically narcissism masked as altruism.” I […]
Robin Williams: Our brilliant masked man.
I couldn’t figure out why I woke up this morning still thinking about Robin Williams. My husband offhandedly asked me yesterday why he thinks he did it, and maybe he asked me because no one can grasp why this beautiful brilliant man who made us snort laugh took himself from his family and fans. Or […]
Entitled? Of course veterans, and our hard-working willing.
Few issues on the American landscape are more sacred, more immune to partisan feuding than supporting our returning soldiers. Most people, pro-war or against, wouldn’t dare deny soldiers accessible, affordable quality healthcare, nor should we willing to let even one soldier suffer or die waiting months to see a doctor. Who isn’t stopped in her […]
Pregnancy ‘warm and fuzzy,’ birth control ‘immoral?’ Mr. Potter, snap out of it.
Click here to sign petition against Eden Foods I’m curious if Eden Food’s CEO Mr. Michael Potter ever had the “immoral and unnatural practices” he says birth control promotes, before he got married? “Michael Potter, Eden’s CEO, claims, among other things, that contraception ‘almost always involve[s] immoral and unnatural practices.’ That’s one of the reasons why he filed […]
God, Guns but no gays? My Letter to this Kentucky business owner
Image: Wikimedia Commons I just sent the following email to this Kentucky business owner. I’m HORRIFIED his family received death and rape threats for his store policy, but I’m also horrified at his policy. Dear Herald Owner, I am terribly sorry your wife and children received death and rape threats in response to your policy to “refuse to […]
Donald Sterling. When words speak louder than actions.
Image credit: Blake Griffin Interesting dialogue about Clippers owner Donald Sterling. As much as I’d like to see every bass-ackwards racist moron ousted from their organizational protected throne, it’s a slippery slope around freedom of speech to use personal recordings and comments to legally oust someone. If Sterling counter sues and wins to keep the […]
Catholics and Mormons Mass Exodus If Women Left Behind
Great article (linked below) on why the traditional branches of the Catholic and Mormon church can’t sustain themselves unless they reform to include women. “The contradictions are non-sustainable.” Some of my friends, from their polite silence, likely find my feminist, new-age, optimistic, this-too-shall-be-overcome attitude regarding social change non-sustainable. I’ll cop to being the annoying […]
If the states don’t know any better, the Supreme Court has to.
Image: Wikimedia Commons Support for same-sex marriage is moving up in the courts and the people. Princeton Survey Research Associates surveyed 1,003 adults and found: “An unprecedented 55%-40%, Americans say marriages between same-sex couples should be recognized by law as valid, with the same rights of traditional marriage. That’s the highest level of support since Gallup […]
Gay marriage a serious ill of our nation? We’re sick alright, but that’s not the issue.
An Orlando Sentinel reader wrote the following opinion letter: (Gov) Scott should stand steady Comparing same-sex marriage and integration is like comparing apples and oranges (Letters, Wednesday, JoAnn Lee Frank). There are many people in the state of Florida who find the subject of gay marriage to be one of the many serious ills that […]