89 years ago today the 19th amendment was passed, granting full voting rights to women in the United States of America.  The struggle for this right was long, beginning in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention held by the suffrage movement.  Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Caty Stanton (among [...]

It seems that we are often blaming the victim rather than the victimizer.  Our “rugged individualism” in America has led to us not wanting to help others out that are not able to pull themselves up.  What I wonder is why, once we pull ourselves up, why we cannot extend a hand to others that [...]

I’ve been feeling so much older.  Frame me and hang me on the wall.   I’ve seen you fall into the same trap.  This thing - is happenin’ to us all.  Something so strong, could carry us away.  Something so strong, could carry us today - Crowded House Something So [...]

We have finally done it.  We have taken back the White House.  The era of Bush/Cheney is coming to a close and a new path will be pursued.  There is great hope and pride on this historic morning and we need to be sure that this feeling carries us through into the new administration.  I [...]

FiveThirtyEight.com Final Projection for the 2008 Presidential Race
Hopefully this will be a close projection.  Hopefully Obama/Biden will blow McCain/Palin out of the water tonight.  Hopefully Hopefully Hopefully.
As a Democrat/Green Party Member I have a tendancy to be quite pessimistic.  Wait - I tend to be that way in life as well, but even more so [...]