N.C.: You can help voters prove eligibility under our new voter-suppression law
One week ago, the Republican/Tea Party supermajority in North Carolina's General Assembly passed the most repressive, restrictive voter-suppression law in the United States. HB589, the Voter...
View ArticleRevolutionize war-making by peacekeeping
What has brought us to the point of yet again waging war without any goals for peace? The US stance of becoming a "conquering hero" has not produced success in many decades, and it's a stance that has...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing: Revolutionize war-making by waging peace
What has brought us to the point of yet again waging war without any goals for peace? The US stance of becoming a "conquering hero" has not produced success in many decades, and it's a stance that has...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing 09/21/2014: The snobby wobbly of Hobby Lobby
Greetings, felicitations, salaam aleikum, selamlar, shalom, zdravo, and welcome to Kitchen Table Kibitzing.It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon -- but things haven't been quite as quiet in North...
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That Call. The One in the Middle of the Night #BlackLivesMatter
A demonstrator stands in front of a truck and stops traffic during the evening rush hour on the streets of Washington, D.C., shutting down 14th & K streets in the heart of the city. (Photo: Paul J....
View ArticleWhat the Senate report carefully doesn't say about torture of Khalid Sheikh...
So the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee has released a summary of its study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. It's a hefty read, yet even at more than 500 pages, the summary is...
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Nurturing and nourishing Cedwyn's family
Jotter shared the sad news on Saturday night that we lost our beloved Cedwyn to disseminated cancer.I just got this note from Jack Thompson, Cedwyn's father: "Cedwyn passed away tonight, quietly,...
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Citizen lobbying on a snow day at the NC General Assembly
Well, it's that time again: The N.C. General Assembly (NCGA) meets for a "long session" every other year, when it deals with the majority of bills that have budgetary implications. Our last long...
View ArticleTwo NC lawmakers draft guns-for-teachers bill for one Christian school, not...
Well, this is a headscratcher. While doing some citizen lobbying today at the N.C. General Assembly with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense, we spoke with legislators about a bill filed earlier this...
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UPDATE: GOAL REACHED! My pootie Cecile needs a little help
Cecile keeps the Internet safeUPDATE UPDATE UPDATEAs of 11 p.m., Cecile's vet bill is taken care of!! Thank you a million bajillion times, Great Orange Satanmates! She's going to start treatment on...
View ArticleClimate change in the food deserts: Yes, we can!
Are you someone who wants to make live better for people who live in “food deserts”? Do you shop at farmers’ markets? Do you ever talk with the produce manager at your local grocery store? Do you have...
View ArticleOur Eye Is on the Sparrow .... A Grieving Mother Becomes Collateral Damage to...
Nora (not her real name) was a vibrant, funny, brilliant, sassy, resilient woman about my age. She was talented and hilarious and had a heart as big as Texas.But Nora is gone now. We met last year...
View ArticleRight now: force Congress to address gun violence
He purchased his primary gun legally. Another gun he purchased perhaps less legally, but it was 1991 and the term “mass murder” wasn’t in the news every other day and it didn’t seem strange that a...
View ArticleAction: Spread the word about the upcoming PootiePaddalooza (with POLL!)
Can you take a few minutes to tweet, Instagram, Facebook, or email this press release about the PootiePaddalooza? Our beloved Pootie Padders SaraR and winglion have launched an amazing Kickstarter...
View Article"What are you?" My granddaughter dives into the convoluted politics of racial...
My granddaughter Leyla was four weeks old when her mother was deployed overseas; her father had been deployed to Afghanistan before Leyla was born. So there I was, a mother who hadn’t cared for an...
View ArticlePass the word: NC voters in long lines need bottled water
The lines are looooooong at polling sites in North Carolina, despite record early voting numbers. If you live near a campaign headquarters or GOTV staging location, would you consider dropping off...
View ArticleSanta, a Breastfeeding Mother, and a Crying Grandmother Among Those Arrested...
It sounds like the start of a bad joke, right? “So a breastfeeding mother, Santa Claus, and a grandmother walk into the N.C General Assembly … “It’s bad, alright: an odious and audacious power grab by...
View ArticleA heart, a brain, a home, and the cowardly lyin's in Congress
I spent Monday and Tuesday this week calling U.S. Senators (again) about health care in the United States. (Or, as is likely to happen to millions of us, the lack of health care to come.)Here is my...
View Article"Until they came for Mika" -- there's more to Joe's Republican repudiation...
Though I appreciate Callum Borchers’ Washington Post opinion piece about the significance of "Morning Joe"'s exit from the Republican Party, something else bugs me about Joe Scarborough's public...
View Article"Well, you *could* go to France for treatment ...." Your US healthcare options
So. Yeah. I’m in the hospital with a brain thing. That’s #1; #2 is that I’m one of those effing poor people we all keep reading about.First, apologies for the old photo above and lack of HTMLs and...
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