Wednesday Reads: The King Who Wanted To Be Queen?
Good Morning Hope everyone is staying dry, and plugged in…by that I mean your electricity is still on and strong! I could not bring myself to watch the show last night. Even though it looks as if there...
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Friday Night Ohana: my kittos, Lily and Rue, last night having “facetime” that defies the space-time continuum… the dog on my Macbook Air is my angeldog on the other side, Callie. The kittos are...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Cold Temps, Cold Tea and Warm Bed
Good Morning! It is cold in Banjoville, we are talking low 20′s, and living near the river makes the air feel damp and harsh. I’ve avoided the news this weekend, there is something going around…like...
View ArticleMonday Late Afternoon Open Thread: Popes and Monsters
Artwork by Edward Gorey Good Afternoon I have to take my daughter to her dentist appointment in Atlanta this afternoon, so I am writing this post early…way early! If any of these links I have to share...
View ArticleSCOTUS Justices Hinting They Will Avoid Issuing a Broad Ruling Legalizing or...
This morning the Supreme Court held oral arguments on the challenge to California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage. At Business Insider, Eric Fuchs writes: The first of two huge Supreme Court...
View ArticleOh yeah…Wednesday Morning Reads
Good Morning Wow, I completely forgot it was my turn up at bat. This morning’s post will be mainly links that I have saved up over the last few days. Being sick does have its advantages, you get to...
View ArticleWednesday AM: Justice for Marco McMillian
Posted to Marco McMillian’s facebook page: “As we work for justice in the murder of Marco W McMillian we held a press conference in Clarksdale, MS on Thursday May 9, 2013. Please goggle Marco McMillian...
View ArticleSunday Reads: You got the stuff?
Good Morning! Oh yeah…I got the stuff! Plenty of things for you today, so much that I have decided to break this post up into two…one for the morning…one for the early afternoon. First some headlines:...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Apples, Rands and 3D Printed Food
Good Morning Storms are building up right over Banjoville as I type up this post, so I will be very brief with the commentary. (I am also very sleepy, so yeah…brief it will be.) The Immigration reform...
View ArticleFriday Nite Lite: SCOTUS Edition
Laura Beck @ Jezebel: You Gotta See This Picture of San Francisco’s City Hall Taste the rainbow, motherfuckers. Who else already booked their ticket to Pride this weekend? Usually it’s too much of a...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Lucky Charms Anyone?
Good Morning You have to give it to General Mills, they are keeping with the times…and pissing of the right-wing along the way. Remember a few months ago when General Mills came out with an interracial...
View ArticlePope’s Open to Homosexual Priests…But Hell Bent Against Women Clergy: It’s an...
Good Evening Two interesting things came out of the mouth of Pope Francis today, which made me take a moment and laugh to myself. First he makes a statement regarding “gay priest” that was not in line...
View ArticleThursday Reads
Good Morning!! Yesterday, the White House announced that President Obama will not meet one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg as previously planned....
View ArticleSunday Reads: Falling Stars… Special Stars… Stars and Death
Good Morning August is a special month on TCM, it is when they have their Summer Under The Stars programming…where every 24 hour day is devoted to one special classic movie star. We lost a few movie...
View ArticleFollow the Rainbow…Open Thread
(Rainbow Crossing in front of Russian Embassy, Stockholm Via Claes Betsholtz FB) I am sure you have seen the protest artwork photographed above. Isn’t it great? However…There has been some disturbing...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Dark and Darkness
Morning All Since Peej has the Happiness front covered, I will take care of the down and out blues department…. ▶ Ruth Brown, If I can’t sell it, I’ll sit on it Yeah, it’s one hell of a blues song…but...
View ArticleInternational Community Must Confront Putin and Russia on Anti-Gay Legislation
There’s been quite a bit of talk recently about Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” legislation–signed into law on June 30 by President Vladimir Putin–because of this month’s World Athletics Championships...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Take Five or Ten
Good Morning Hello…today is going to be my last post for the month of August, I am taking the next seven plus days off…and will be back in full force the first Wednesday in September. I’ve needed this...
View ArticleSunday Reads: GOP and Agnotology
This vintage ad about sums it up…look at the symbolic GOP elephant and his poison spray can of DDT … Good Morning Agnotology. New word, for me at least…read this explanation and tell me if it strikes a...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Election Results, Smoking Crack and Dueling Plagiarisms
Good Morning Well…Election Day is over, and here are the results…in link dump format: Ally of Clintons Narrowly Wins Election as Virginia Governor – NYTimes.com Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Democratic...
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