For more than a month there’s been this sensation in my chest — like being crushed from the inside. Normally my head is so full of words, I literally can’t sleep until I get them out. They dance in there like prosaic ear-worms. Lately, though, it’s been eerily quiet. The dead calm of stupefaction. All…
In case you missed me on Ralston Live on Vegas PBS last week, here’s the link to watch online: http://watch.knpb.org/video/2365706705/ We talked about Donald Trump’s recent string of increasingly bizarre comments about abortion. I’m happy to say that the prolife guest and I had a civil debate about this passionate issue. Check back for more…
Originally posted on Desert Beacon:
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;” Dreaming about a governmental structure in which two different parties,…
The Desert Beacon has a great take on the GOP plan to fleece America’s workers (see link below). Don’t be fooled by the GOP’s so-called Working Families Flexibility Act, which uses the ruse of “comp time” and flexibility of hours to essentially strip workers of certain rights and hand them over to employers to erode…
Where is Robert DeNiro Joe Pesci when we need him? After these Republicans start laughing when a reporter asks them about the potential for their caucus to consider same-sex marriage rights — kudos to that reporter for having the balls to ask — I want the same reporter to then respond by saying, “Am I…
Free to be you and me: Starting Dec. 1 the DSM-5 — the official guide-book in the psychiatry community — has stopped listing transgender as a mental illness! This, coupled with the UN Secretary General’s speech imploring the global community to stand with the LGBT community, will be marked in history as no less significant…
Pro-death: If you haven’t already heard, 31-year old Savita Halappanavardied in an Irish hospital last week because doctors refused to perform a life-saving abortion. She was already having a miscarriage. I’ll give you a minute to rage. Hate, hate, go away…: The last thing I did in high school was watch It’s a Mad, Mad,…
In the final week of voter registration, let’s look at a round-up about voter suppression laws and why it sucks: What is voter suppression? As the ACLU explains, changes to voting laws including requiring ID (three states now require proof of citizenship), shortening early voting times, and putting up road blocks to register to vote…
I didn’t watch Ann Romney speak last night at the Republican National Convention. Sacrilege? Perhaps. But let me ask you something — whatever your political persuasion is — did you learn anything substantive? Did you move from a maybe to a yes or no? I am willing to bet not, and I’m not a betting…
When news broke yesterday about Paul Ryan’s new comments about rape, I was just finishing a new post for the Independent Voter Network about the Todd Akin news cycle and what it showed us about media bias (and our own biases). Wait. You didn’t hear about the new Paul Ryan rape comment? The one where…
The Sin City Siren 