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Parades and Second-Line Shootings

May 13, 2013
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This Mother’s Day weekend, we attended our first Art Car Parade since moving to Houston. It is a once-a-year welcome addition of color, music and a carnival-like atmosphere to the otherwise sterile streets of this city. Tame as the parade was parade watchers’ reaction to a pretty funky spectacle was compared with the level of [...]

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6000-Year-Old Texas

January 22, 2013

Alas, the horrible creationist Louisiana Science & Education Act (SB70) wasn’t repealed, but the Orleans Parish School Board doesn’t want anything to do with it. On December 18, 2012, the board voted unanimously  to prohibit the use of any textbooks that include revisionist history (as in Texas) or creationism, including intelligent design (ID). They also [...]

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Luck Be A Lady Tonight

November 7, 2012
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The best representative I’ve ever had is now a United States senator. On Wisconsin. Congratulations, Deb Fischer, Heidi Heitkamp, Mazie Hirono, Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin. Tweet

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Happy Hallowe’en!

October 31, 2012
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They say Yama comes in on a dark water buffalo. Close enough. *** Scary: The Tale of the Haunted Laboratory Scarier: Eric Lander & Noam Chomsky of MIT do it Gangnam Style. The streams have definitely crossed. Scariest: Heckuva Loser Brownie criticizes Obama for acting on Hurricane Sandy “so quickly” Tweet

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We Are All In The Gutter

August 6, 2012

On a day we were meant to look forward to Curiosity landing on Mars, a terrorist gunned down six Sikh worshippers and a responding police officer at a Milwaukee gurudwara. My first reaction was, “Go buy a gun and a permit and get yourself to the range.” This was immediately followed by, “Don’t be stupid.” [...]

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On Wisconsin

June 4, 2012

My lovely state. Fighting Bob and I are with you in spirit. Tweet

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The Chicks Are Angry, Part 1

April 17, 2012
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As an (over-)analytical, career, married and childless woman progressing in a mostly desirable career path, I feel compelled to dissect some of the legislation coming out of the escalating Republican War on Women. First, we frame. Is the goal here marginalizing women because God said Men First!, increasing what is believed to be a dwindling [...]

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A (Call And) Response To “White Savior Industrial Complex”

March 21, 2012

While appraising items made in, say, Sri Lanka, the Dominican Republic or China for purchase, I wonder who made it, under what conditions, how they live everyday and, almost concurrently, how this purse will look against a pair of slacks in my closet back at home or that hard drive will satisfy my space requirements, [...]

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