Michelle Obama speaks in Michigan
Best speech in the campaign, IMHO Continue reading Michelle Obama speaks in Michigan
Category: war on women
You STILL don’t own me
The names have changed, but the issue is more dire than ever. It’s imperative that women vote on November 5. It’s imperative that we protect our remaining rights and restore the ones Donald Trump took from us. Vote like your life depends on it, because it just might. This post first appeared as “2012 election: … Continue reading You STILL don’t own me
Forewarned
Reprinted from Pied Type, April 8, 2015: “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this … Continue reading Forewarned
I might only have one match …
I hadn’t heard this song for a few years but blooper0223 has it on her blog this morning as a fight song for all of us against Supreme Court rulings that have run off the rails. More specifically, of course, it’s a fight song, an anthem, for women across the country who have been deprived … Continue reading I might only have one match …
A horrible, no good, very bad Court
From Slate: June 30, 2022: Consider the issues that SCOTUS has resolved this term—the first full term with a 6–3 conservative supermajority. The constitutional right to abortion: gone. States’ ability to limit guns in public: gone. Tribal sovereignty against state intrusion: gone. Effective constraints around separation of church and state: gone. The bar on prayer in public schools: gone. Effective … Continue reading A horrible, no good, very bad Court