Originally written on December 17, 2012. The media is suffocating, clogging the roads and parking lots with bright lights and satellite dishes and polished professionals putting on too much makeup in their caravans before venturing out to stick a camera in our weary faces. But I don’t want them to go away. Because as hard as it is to see my quiet sleepy town on the 24 hour news cycle,
The F Word
Apparently Time magazine is still in print, and you can check out the current edition at a podiatrist’s office near you. It features an article, Which Words Should Be Banned for 2015, with a list of worst words poll, of which “feminist” is one. 2015. Feminist. And Time magazine suggests we ban it. In the year of domestic violence, rapes across college campuses, birth control limited by employers, women’s reproductive health care banned outright,
Are you registered to vote?
It’s National Voter Registration Day, so make sure you are registered so you can vote … and complain if need be, cuz if you don’t vote, don’t kvetch. And ask around and make sure your friends and neighbors are registered as well because it’s actually true: every vote does indeed count. It matters. It matters more than money, more than signs, more than anything. “The only thing that stops a bad guy
The Power of Nobody
I’m nobody and don’t pretend to be anything I’m not. Recently, I’ve been thinking there’s a whole lot of nobodys out there, and if we could all get together and decide to do something, we’d be somebody. Wow. That sounds like some pretty serious late night, smokin’ discussion on third floor of the mighty, mighty Sig Tau house back in the 80s. (Or so I’ve heard.) So I jumped at