DeliaBlack has the original image that I painted this picture from on her blog. This image is tiny, and I don't have a better copy on this laptop, but I painted my version of "FU, I'm Johnny Cash" several years ago for my brother, a rockabilly musician (stand-up bass). Delia, I… Read full post »

There is a remarkable young woman in Atlanta who will be going to Harvard in the fall - and, while she earned the right to take Advanced Placement (AP) courses at Wheeler High School, she was unable to qualify for gifted programs in middle school because of her low standardized test… Read full post »

"There is no such thing as 'due process light'."

So said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, responding to President Obama's restart of the Bush administration's military tribunals for 13 of the 241 Guantanamo Bay so-called terror suspects.

I could not s… Read full post »

Fair Warning: This is the first, but y'all may one day tire of my carping on disability rights issues. Until I have access to the same world you do, carp I will.... So skip it if you're not interested in the way the world looks from down here.

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Are we really this twisted?

I just watched Bigger Stronger Faster* [IMDb], a thought-provoking documentary subtitled The Side Effects of Being American by an average but extraordinary young man named Chris Bell. He's the middle of three brothers who were powerfully affected by the Charles Atlas ads a… Read full post »

I read this week in a couple of places that some doctors do not like the trend toward rating experience with health care providers on sites designed to collect and collate such information. Some 2,000 physicians are asking each patient to sign an agreement that she will not rate the doctor… Read full post »

It just occurred to me that some of you out there might be able to help me! I am working on a novel loosely based on my mother's life as a woman on the cusp between the June Cleaver homemaker and budding feminism, and the mother of a sick child watching the… Read full post »

I came home this evening to find a story, once again, about defense "contractor" Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and uncollected overcharges - at least $100 million out of the $31 billion plus we have paid KBR for that highly elastic term "logistics" in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait since 2001. It… Read full post »

This is the post that brought me into open salon:

http://www.open.salon.com/blog/frogtown_diva/2009/04/30/president_obama_61_of_us_believe_in_torture_i_know_why

Thanks, Frogtown Diva!

I am glad you brought this information back out into circulation again. We need to understand the American heritage w… Read full post »

Following is my letter to the President concerning appropriate response to the many abuses of power by the Bush administration, including the infamous torture memos:

Dear Mr. President:

In light of your decision regarding release of what are now popularly termed the "torture memos" regarding the Bush… Read full post »