Tonight while watching the Democratic debate, I had a epiphany:   This year–which will determine which way our country and the world will go in ways never imagined before–we need a stark, obvious contrast if Democrats are going to wrest control from Trump and his disastrous, misled, bought-and-paid-for minions.    Half measures and compromises won’t…

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Lisa and I were among the first several hundred people in line at 3:00 (an hour and a half before the doors opened) when we arrived in chilly weather to get in to see and hear Bernie Sanders at the Tacoma Dome yesterday.   Bernie Sanders chose Tacoma (YES! TACOMA!!!) as his first Washington State…

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It’s a sad state of affairs when one’s own sister says she would hire Trump to run her bank or her business and to babysit her female grandchildren.   Yes, she said that. I was so appalled when I asked her if she’d trust him in those ways, I just had to call it quits…

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For the past week to ten days I’ve been swamped editing and enhancing copy and content (two different niches) written by a handful of clients — some new, some long-time customers. It’s as if a floodgate has opened and I love it. Because there’s no better pastime for a writer than to be writing words from…

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Today I called Northwest Hospital for an update on my place on their waiting list, and got my chest masculinization surgery (officially called transmasculine top surgery) scheduled for Thursday, April 2nd. WOO HOO!   So naturally, tonight I have Christmas Tree Brain. I can’t sleep, so I may as well share what’s going on inside …

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I have friends and family who are all over the board when it comes to their political leanings.   And sometimes I get frustrated–even pissed off–when I try to interact with them, because we seem to have been exposed to “facts” (biases and propaganda) from our favorite political pundits and go-to information sources that sequester…

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https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/chapter/fact-checking-sites/   When reading the social media memes that hundreds of Facebook friends share,  it’s apparent they’re gleaning them from sources that are frequently fact-scarce or fact-free, agenda-pushing spin zones.   Here are just a few of the last year’s and this year’s doozies to date:   Nancy Pelosi violated a statute when she tore…

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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold animals, And said to them, ‘It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer’; but you’ve turned it…

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The impeachment trial is becoming almost unbearable to watch as GOP Senators ignore, walk out, read books, build paper airplanes and pointedly ignore their oath to the Constitution and to their most recent oath to sit and impartially review the evidence that the impeachment team has against Trump.   They aren’t doing their jobs. They…

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January 20, 2020 will be the centennial birthday of actor DeForest Kelley. It’s a milestone he probably wouldn’t have lived to see, even had he survived the cancer that took him from us at age 79 on June 11th, 1999, but we will never know now.   He might have given Shatner a run for…

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