I am truly psyched that Khalid Sheik Mohammad and his cronies will be brought to trial in New York City and warehoused in Illinois!  This is a great victory for the US!

Nay-sayers like to wave the bogie-man flag about the terrible things that coule happen in NYC if a terrorist… Read full post »

Look what I got in a Private Message:

I'm not a dedicated blogger.  I check OS a couple of times a day to see who's saying what, and I don't read most of the posts.  But I notice that people are swearing never to come back after they get flamed.

 I've been in online communities since the dawn of… Read full post »

The Equal Rights Amendment has still not become law, and until it does, women's rights can be impeded or removed at whim. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced it to the house again this past July. No action has been taken. Contact your congresscritter to get this thing passed. It's been on… Read full post »

Circa 1971: 

"You can't come to work in your pajamas!" the supervisor said.

 "This isn't pajamas, it's a mini-dress with matching shorts!" the secretary said.

"I don't care what you call it, go home and change into something decent!"

"You can't come to work in pants!" the supervisor said.… Read full post »

I hear 5 different birds in front of my house, so I look out the window. There's a mockingbird on the wire! I haven't seen many this year, I think they moved out when the big tree was taken down. Nice to know they're still in the neighborhood!

Some lyrics from Spanky & Our Gang. 

If you'd take the train with me
Uptown, thru the misery
Of ghetto streets in morning light,
It's always night.
Take a window seat, put down your Times,
You can read between the lines,
Just… Read full post »

What year is it again?  I'm feeling confused.  Did I hit a time-warp and end up in 1959? 

Today, the Christian folks of the Westboro Baptist Church (Fred Phelps' folks) brought their trademark brand of slime to Brooklyn Technical High School.  They paraded aroud in front of the s… Read full post »

The decline of the American vocabulary is so sad. Mass market audiences no longer refer to dictionaries when encountering an unfamiliar word. They make up new definitions for existing words. They mangle homonyms. It's been a pet peeve of mine for a long writing career. Just this week I saw someone… Read full post »

It's heartening to see the blogosphere (at least the part I read) calling Racism by its correct name.  Those of us who support President Obama aren't going to let the haters take a pass on this one. Read full post »

What's up with South Carolina politicians?!?  I'm from New Jersey, where we certainly have our share of corrupt pols, but the guys from SC are bat guano crazy in public.  Is Mark Sanford angling for an insanity defense?  Would Joe Wilson have heckled a white president at a joint sessio… Read full post »

Well, of course, some of us are calling it by its right name, but I couldn't resist transforming John Stormer's fine title "None Dare Call It Treason."  In that book, Stormer argued that the US in 1964 was losing the Cold War because evil Communists had infiltrated the highest reagions of… Read full post »

Once again, we're blaming victims!  Let's not hire fat people!  Let's penalize them until they realize the error of their ways and lose the weight!

However, the ugly truth of the matter is: weight is not usually under the control of the individual.  For instance, the very bacteria in o… Read full post »

Don't say I didn't warn you.  In my June 3 post I served notice that the Scary Black Man in the White House would inspire some American Loonies to violence, and it's upon us now.

The Town Hall imbroglios have turned violent.  So far, the violence is limited to the pushing-shoving-pounding… Read full post »

I believe in fairies, and pixies and elves,

 And humans who don’t conform to any particular norm
But are entirely themselves. Read full post »

Although my cousins and I were boomer babies born in NJ, they've all moved to warmer climes, while I continue to enjoy the four seasons.

We've always been tight-knit, and we still keep in close touch.  Nobody has to rent a hotel room in several desirable sites.  My guest room is… Read full post »

Okay.  I get it.  There's a Scary Black Man in the White House.  The Universe must be out of balance, and the Creator of the Universe has called upon you to undo the apocalyptic effects of this imbalance.  Right.

So you ratchet up the righteous indignation and the higher your bloo… Read full post »

He was the love of my life.  We met at work, bonded over shop talk and spent 17 years in love.  Then, in 2002,  he died.

I knew he was diabetic when we met; we knew his kidneys were in trouble before the wedding.  He offered me the chance to back… Read full post »