Downsizing for 2019
Tom Weber and Tracy Mumford writing for MPR News on No one wants your stuff, Mom: 10 tips for downsizing: There is a scene playing out over and over again across the country right now....
Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
Conservative Civility Is A Lie
“Politeness” and “civility” are the new buzzwords of the racist right and their cowardly apologists. If your “civility” comes with racism, homophobia, transphobia, and rape apologia I’ll fucking pass. I will NOT be nice...
No Smugness Like Brand New Advocate Smugness
LOL, my inner dialogue nearly every time some netizen who likely didn’t even exist when I began my advocacy career in the early 1990s just MUST ‘splain my own areas of expertise to me...
Local Politics Wins for Democrats
The NRCC tried really hard with crazy rhetoric and some outright lies, but they lost to Jennifer Wexton. Captain Commander Scare Tactics Barbara Comstock is out on her ass. Her MS13 ads were clearly...
Revisiting My Digital Library (or Stop Being Threatened By Other People’s Reading Choices)
I’ve been tending to my digital housekeeping this weekend and thought about my digital library (books, newsletters, magazines, etc.). I’ve been using Calibre to manage my large ebooks library for several years. Rather than reinvent the...
Victim Blaming Hall of Shame – Part One
Taking back some power by calling out victim-blamers and shamers I’ve personally encountered over the years. Obviously, this will be a triggering and upsetting collection. Feel free to share. People still say this doesn’t...
Stop Being Surprised by Female Perpetrators, ‘kay?
Kim Severson, writing for The New York Times, on Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser: …last October, Ms. Argento quietly arranged to pay $380,000 to her own accuser: Jimmy...
Discussion Is Good and Agreement Is Awesome – But Getting Stuff Done Is The Goal
Monica Torres, writing for Ladders, on “Why ‘agreeing to disagree’ is a bad management tactic“: When you are a good leader, you know that “agreeing to disagree” is not enough to move goals forward....
No One Cared, Kenny
While cleaning up some old emails, I came across this gem from homophobic assclown Sailor-boy Kenny Golden. While he is probably still a homophobic asshole, he never did make it to Congress, or City...