My True Adventures with Government Run H...

I’ve listened and listened to the ever ratcheting rhetoric about the increasingly vilified Public Option in the Health Care reform bill. And what strikes me is that the vast majority of the people fear mongering about it fall into two distinct camps: 1) those who believe “all government is bad, nothing the government runs can be good or efficient” (my response to...

My Virtual Grandmothers in the Blogosphe...

I’ve just discovered two great old broads. They aren’t my grandmothers, but I’m appointing them that title in the Blogosphere. It’s Margaret and Helen. They were born in 1925. They’re 82 years old. They’ve been fast friends for more than 60 years. Then Helen’s grandson set her up with a blog. The rest is fast becoming raucous InterWebs...

Food Glorious Food. We See Where It Come...

It was a food themed day today in ways we hadn’t imagined when we decided, on a whim, to run up to Santa Rosa to the Sonoma County Fair. Andy was on a mission to see goats and cows. I was more interested in burros and chickens. The Sonoma County Fair is a wonderful fair in the great old tradition, with pie and quilt making competitions, fresh scrubbed 4-Hers and their animals...

A BlogHer Experience of a Different Colo...

I usually try to keep things light around here. Hilarious farming misadventures, terriers, and, of course, loads of coyote poo. I purposely try to restrain myself from getting too political. Because those who know me know that you can get me on political subjects and sometimes it’s questionable if you can get me off them. I toyed with the idea of segregating those rants and...

In Which I Don’t Quite Become Blog...

The BlogHer ’09 Conference has been so jam-packed I’ve barely been able to Twitter, let alone blog. But before we get started, let me first reassure you that it hasn’t been because I was one of the tiara and boa wearing girls passing out drunk in the lobby after way too many cocktails. I met up with a fellow Mount Holyoke College alum last night who is a former...

Advice to Sotomayor: Go Country and You&...

Three days of watching the Sotomayor hearings has caused my blood pressure to skyrocket to a dangerous level. And I’m someone who’s always had a low and healthy blood pressure! First there’s Alabama Senator Blowhard T. Beaureguard Sessions, who 22 years ago was denied a US Circuit Judgeship by a solid 9-9 vote (including the votes of his own colleagues) on the basis...