Having spent the past 30 years in the Southeast of England, married to a Londoner, it's difficult not to absorb a little bit of rhyming Cockney slang. There's a tradition amongst Londoners to use rhyming slang phrases for certain everyday words in English.

For example, "Barnet fair" is slang for "hair… Read full post »

The leaderlessness and the lack of any agenda or even the desire to engage the system. Shows an almost total lack of faith in both our system of government and the future. It is interesting to think… Read full post »

When the London (and other English cities)riots rampaged earlier this year, I read with droll amusement, the armchair activist quarterbacks' wistful comments in Huffington Post and elsewhere, basking in admiration and awe of what they thought they were seeing.

Viewed from a closer range ... like here… Read full post »

When I was a small girl, growing up in rural Virginia, one of many things I learned from my mother was that overreaction to an accusation most generally always implied guilt. The person who cried loudest and longest at a funeral usually was the one person in the mourning congregation who… Read full post »

Toby Keith, Democrat, says:-

I don’t know, but I expect the wealthy to write a check ’cause it’s as bad as it’s ever been. It would be unpatriotic not to try to save the country. I’m sure people will bitch about it, but if it meant we get to operate in this cou… Read full post »

 It's ironic that this song was out around the time the Democratic Party imploded the first time. That was before most of this generation of whiners was about, so they wouldn't remember. What's even more oxymoronic is that some of these kidults are even getting elec… Read full post »

When I was growing up in a Democratic kitchen, my parents made the difference between Democrats and Republicans abundantly clear.

Keep in mind that this was in the 1960s, and I was a small child, just starting school, when Kennedy was elected. Before I knew the real difference between Democrats and Re… Read full post »

I guess I feel vindicated. I certainly should feel vindicated enough to jump onto my chair and shout out, "See! There you go! I told you so!"

But I don't like to gloat.

You see, a couple of years ago, I started calling out no less than Bill Maher on some remarks by… Read full post »

To congressional Republicans for turning a medium-term problem into an immediate crisis by threatening to b… Read full post »

Today constituents of New York's 9th District are going to the polls in a special election to choose Anthony Weiner's successor.

Weiner was a big voice in the U S Congress. Some would say, succinctly, that he was a big mouth and little else. Maybe that's true. What he didn't accomplish legislatively,… Read full post »