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So Helen Thomas retired in “disgrace” after giving an opinion nobody should have been surprised by. When I initially saw the video my first thought was, “Wow! I bet nobody else has seen this yet…” Five pages into a “Helen Thomas” Google search later I was reminded yet again that the only time people I […]
Time and again I have seen children placed by their tribe into violent, verbally, physically, and even sexually abusive, drug infested homes. I have seen little or no attention given to the emotional and mental health issues these children have had.
Susan Wingate first hit my radar with Bobby’s Diner, a book that I enjoyed a great deal. I was not alone, Bobby’s Diner in fact won an award. I had the opportunity to talk with Susan a couple of weeks ago,and her real life literary story is quite unique in this day and age. Most […]
This woman and Penn Jillette might have a lot in common to talk about regarding how the Religious Right have been portrayed in our culture. [Eve] Tushnet entered Yale in 1996 a happy lesbian, out since age 13 or 14 (she can’t quite remember). Her father, a nonobservant Jew, and her mother, a Unitarian, both […]
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