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Statistics are seldom simple — or, a queer survivor unpacks survival,...
America’s self-identification as LGBTQ+ by genereation. Source: Gallup 2020. (click to embiggen) Last week I posted this story in the Friday Five: 5.6% of American adults say they are LGBTQ. Over half...
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The State of the State of the Union Address
“When Joe Biden gives his first address to Congress, it will be the first time in US history that both seats directly behind the president will be filled by women.”So apparently one of the straws that...
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While discussing with my husband the middle bit of my review of episode four of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier I was reminded of this truly bizarre argument I was involved in during college. The...
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Sam and Bucky Face the “Truth”
Episode five of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was very enjoyable. The storyline made some progress on a portion of the plot that has been muddled in previous episode. They also finally made a few...
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Wednesday Update: The Prez is About to Address Congress
by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com So last month, in reaction to the Q-people and their conspiracy theories, I wrote about the State of the State of the Union Address which was mostly an...
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Weekend Update 5/1/2021: Astronauts, Unhinged pundits, Crazed substitute...
Good speed, Michael Collins Time for a post where I either talk about news that broke after I composed this week’s Friday Five or new developments in stories linked previously, or something I want to...
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Weekend Update 8/14/2021: Get your jab
As a friend who retweeted this commented: “COVID is not our first rodeo, and the last one didn’t have a vaccine!” It’s been way too long since I spent part of a Saturday morning composing one of these...
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Not a Weekend Update: the 20th Anniversary of a Turning Point
My 9/11 story isn’t very interesting. I was awakened, like most mornings at the time, by the clock-radio turning on to the local NPR station. It turned on one minute after the first tower collapsed,...
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The official name of the holiday is NOT President’s Day…
Time to reblog this: The official name of the holiday is Washington’s Birthday Observance Originally published 2016/02/15 “When a person did his best, do not scold him for his failure” —George...
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Those Who Matter
Me and my maternal grandmother. I think I was four? (Originally published on my old blog June 7, 2007) "Don’t let anyone tell you how to live your life. You just pay them no never-mind!" "You...
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