If you’re reading this now, on a day when computers are usually left off to spend time with family and close friends, it means that you needed your internet and/or politics fix.   Since it’s Thanksgiving, let me tell you (besides my health, family, and friends) what I’m...

President Obama has won the 2012 Presidential Election.  He has won a well-deserved re-election and tonight I celebrate, while I entertain a few thoughts: 1.  Yes, We Did!  Against all odds, against the lies, the obstruction, the racism, the sexism, the homophobia, against divisiveness and...

The only part of Paul Ryan’s RNC convention speech that I liked was when he spoke about his mom.  He spoke how at 50 years old, when his father died, she earned a degree, started a small business and made the family proud.  He finished by saying how his mom is his role model.  There...

I have recently started watching Mad Men.  It took me a long time to decide whether or not to watch it after I saw one episode on a flight and absolutely hated it.  But everyone, whose TV judgement I trust, insisted that it was a great show.  However, the real clincher for my decision is...

I didn’t think it was possible for me to be angrier at the GOP than I’ve been in the past few months, seeing how they have been attacking women’s issues. But Mitt Romney’s statements that “the real war on women is being waged by the president’s failed economic...

Aaaaargh, those damn Republicans.  They’re spoiling it for us, and they’ve been doing it since: 2008:  When Obama won the presidential election and they decided to be the “Party of No” 2004:    When Bush won a second term, even though he had lied about Iraq’s...

I never cease to be amazed by the well-oiled Republican spin machine. Take the debate on birth control pills, their latest ground of attack.  According to Politico, the conservatives are now fighting to extend the right to opt out of covering the cost of contraceptives to individual...