My fellow Americans . . .

While reading comments from the previous post, I was delighted to see that an old blogfriend, Closet Metro, had dropped in and endorsed my candidacy in 2012. I said to Jif, “Aw, someone has nominated me for President.”
“I’d vote for you,” he said (and he really sounded like he meant it).
But still, “I couldn’t [...]

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What is wrong with your candidate?

Caution: It’s getting political up in here…
Some of you know this, and it may surprise some others: I love politics. I love political conversation, debate, inquiry. I always have. From the time I was little, I watched the conventions and I SO wanted to grow up and be a delegate. [...]

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Little help, here?

Taking a break from the political posts I’ve been trying to write — I know that is a disappointment to you, since there aren’t nearly enough bloggers writing about politics these days — to ask a favor.
Just this morning I stumbled onto the information that this week, all members of Congress have been invited to [...]

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More (or less) political commentary

Those of you who’ve been reading here a while may remember this, which I think will be my “official” 9-11 post. It’s almost all I remember about that time.
Almost. These past couple of weeks, I’ve been remembering a little bit more. About what happened in the days and weeks after that terrible [...]

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A Guest Post

Leave me out of this. Would you like it if I used the expression, “A human can curl its tail and roll in its own poop, but it’s still a human”?
I thought not.

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Political Commentary

Jif: This is exactly the kind of thing that turns people off from politics.
Susie: Yea, sane people. But it sure fires up the insane ones.
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(True confession: I have been known to cross the line.)

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