Most people think that because I’m a liberal, I like big government. Not true. I like my government limited; it’s just that my limits are in different places. While I think the government should provide basic, quality healthcare for all our citizens, I don’t think that government should regulate my relationship between my doctor and [...]
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In my most political heart, I believe the presidential race should have the two best candidates for the job regardless of their chances of winning. That is the crux of a democracy — not parties but good people running for office. But in my I-really-don’t-want-a-Republican-to-control-the-White-House heart, I don’t want the best Republican to win the [...]
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Halloween 2011 Happy Halloween from my kids who are supposed to be Snow White and Spider Man. But because we do a family costume, I was stressed about how to bring it all together until my genius friend Melissa popped up on a Facebook chat with COMIC CON and a link to Snow White [...]
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The American Dream. Rags-to-riches. Anyone can “make it” if they just try really hard. But what does it mean to “make it?” Own a home? Have a family? Take a vacation? Perhaps the wealth gap and other inequalities are lost on so many people because when we hear 20% of the country own 80% of [...]
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We took down our rainbow flag this weekend. We didn’t put it away because of pressure or because we don’t believe that our local youth need support. Scott has just gone all southern and wants to have a Halloween flag up for a bit, which I imagine our gay friends are okay with (except for [...]
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I thought my title could read “Who Is Troy Davis?” while I watched hope interrupt Troy’s execution. But the hope only lasted 4 hours. A man named Troy Davis was executed on Wednesday, September 22, 2011 at 11:08 p.m. in Georgia. He has been on death row for 22 years for shooting and killing a [...]
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As we are strugglng through the screaming, waist-high hordes of a children’s museum during our summer vacation, we enter the LEARN ABOUT PHYSICS room sponsored by Piggly Wiggly.
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Guess what? There’s a debt crisis. Or as Jon Stewart says: Armadebtdon 2011 Here’s a little bit of background in case you live in a hole in Montana. (PS. Please don’t bomb me.) We have a debt ceiling, $14.3 trillion, which sounds huge if you think of the fact that if you stacked dollar bills [...]
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