Enlightened Belle
- Location
- Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom
- Birthday
- August 29
- Bio
- Born and raised in Virginia. BA in Romance Languages from the University of Virginia 1976 and MA in Spanish from Universidad de Salamanca in 1978. Taught school in the States and for my sins, I married a British civil servant, no less. After more than twenty years of living in the UK and speaking Spanish, French and Italian for lazy Brits who can't, I'm hoping to go home for good later this year. Hey, I live in Kent, where two other Virginia girls, Pocahontas and Nancy Astor, are buried. I don't intend on being the third. Besides, I'm a left-wing Obama supporter. I beling in the Socialist Democratic Atheist Republic of the United States of America.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Headupassitis
November 25, 2011 07:48AM - When the Big Tent Sucks
October 31, 2011 09:02AM - When the Big Tent Sucks
October 31, 2011 09:02AM - Moore Porky Pies
October 28, 2011 06:38PM - The Radical Chic 2.0
October 23, 2011 05:11PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “No one, even people on
the Right, wants to be
identified as a
racist; but
racism…”
September 30, 2011 05:39PM - “I guess you're pretty
cute then, huh?”
August 14, 2011 05:00AM - “My mind is a lot more
open than yours is closed,
Jan. You're
in denial about
what…”
July 18, 2011 05:23PM - “I'll pass on Krugman,
thanks. Krugman has his own
issues and
his own agenda,
dati…”
July 18, 2011 08:52AM - “Frank, I feel the same.
As I'm married to a Brit, when
that
happens, I'll
probabl…”
June 22, 2011 11:31AM
Headupassitis
Maybe they asked the wrong people the wrong questions, but what came across is that the two older people totally get the President of the Un… Read full post »
When the Big Tent Sucks
Sometimes, the/… Read full post »
When the Big Tent Sucks
Sometimes, the/… Read full post »
Moore Porky Pies
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 Radical Chic 2.0
Unlike what appears to be happening in New York City/… Read full post »
Lyin' Lyons
Salon.com continues its moral conflicting over the Melissa Harris-Perry article, the one where she wonders if racism is at the core of a lot of faux Pro/… Read full post »
OWS, You May Be Being Ratfucked
About 38 years ago, when Watergate was making a splash across the news media, one Bob Woodward was directed to California, by one of the plea-bargaining culprits and told to speak with an ex-JAG lawyer named Donald Segretti.
Segretti was a c/… Read full post »
Anarchists Are Good People
The Truth That Hurts
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 »
A National Ralph Ellison Moment
People want the President to address this head on, but he's in a peculiar position in that, if he did, certain people from both extremes would accuse him/… Read full post »
Co-Opting the Movement
In a very democratic and very polite way, the Atlanta demonstrators (who, somehow, didn't sound at all as though they were from either Atlanta or Georgia) refused to allow Rep John Lewis/… Read full post »
Bad Pennies on Wall Street
(Sigh) And this (from Huffington Post):-
Once they made it down to Zuccotti Park, the union leaders did indeed take to the people's mike. And so did filmmaker Michael Moore, who led the crowd in a rabble-rousing speech aimed at Wall Street.… Read full post »
"I l/
Occupy Wall Street Could Be a Seminal Moment Or It Couldn't
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 »
Joan Walsh Needs to Step Up to the Plate and Apologise
Anyone familiar with Joan Walsh will also know that she is no longer the Editor-in-Chief of Salon.com, that she left that position more than a year ago in order to write a book, the publication of/… Read full post »
The Cavalier Connection: Gene Lyons, Suck on THIS!
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 »
Yes, There Is Racism on the Left
Hidden Democrats
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 »
EMO-lution, or Quitting Before You're Ahead
Let me reiterate: These people are not the base. No base/… Read full post »
Longing for the Progressive Dick(tator)
A longtime conservative friend of mine once told me that history is instructive, but by no means is it determinative. However in some cases, it is: Every/… Read full post »
A Word to the Whiners
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 »
Remember the Working Class?
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 »
So ... When Is a Racist NOT a Racist?
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 »
Speaking Truth to Power?
To congressional Republicans for turning a medium-term problem into an immediate crisis by threatening to b… Read full post »
This Year's Model
Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts.
She's challenging big, bad Scott Brown, who's voted with the Democrats as much as he has his own side, and who used the Tea Party financing to get elected and then kicked them to the curb. True, he won against a/… Read full post »
The Honorable Member's Member
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 »
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