Making marriage moral … really moral, not fake moral
I’m passionate about the rights of same-sex couples to marry! Here’s a column I wrote in December 2007 — but it’s doubly important now. Please look into your heart and vote NO on Amendment 2. Last week, sponsors of a proposal to ban gay marriage in Florida announced that they’ve secured enough signatures to put […]
McCain/Palin supporters’ idea of trick or treat
Last night I woke to the sound of someone in my yard. By the time I threw on some clothes and ran outside they were gone … but here’s what they left behind (and no McCain/Palin signs on my street — of which there are four — were touched):
Pounding out the dents in democracy
As if last year’s blow to Sarasota’s election integrity — found in the August 15th 2006 letter from ES&S (Election Systems & Software) that was received but not disclosed to the public by the local Office of Elections — wasn’t enough, this year we have an entire Senate race missing from the absentee ballots mailed […]
Vox populi
Voting, Lyndon Johnson said, is the “first duty of democracy.” I’d go one step beyond LBJ and say that voting is the first duty to one’s self, and an absolute imperative in duty toward family and community. And for those among you who, perhaps as discontented as I with the current state of intellect and […]
… “a larger number of voters get more money under Obama …”
Double click on image to read why Obama’s tax approach makes more sense for most Americans.
Morgan’s my man (for State Senate)
At a lunch meeting today with a prospective client, I mentioned Morgan Bentley — only I referred to him as Morgan Stanley! Good grief; at least the client only razzed me slightly. Then, tonight, I was sitting outside on my stoop with my cat, Boomerang, on his cute little red leash. Covered in cat hair […]
Whoo hoo!! MC snags Best of Suncoast in two categories!
And I owe it all to you! For the second year in a row, the Creative Loafing Best of the Suncoast Readers’ Poll named me as Best Local Columnist. I’m a goofy kind of gal (whoops, does that sound too Palin-esque?) and things like this make me goofily (yes, I know that’s not a real […]
MC goes back to school — book event at Plymouth State University
For any readers who may be in New Hampshire on October 28th — I’ll be giving a campus/community talk and reading excerpts from my book, newspaper columns, and blog at Plymouth State University in Frost Commons (part of the Robert Frost Building) on campus at 7:00 p.m. If you have friends or relatives in that […]
Will Sarah now accuse Powell of being pals with the pal of a terrorist?
I don’t know how much longer Sarah Palin and John McCain will be able to keep spouting their obsessive, delusional, and purposefully misleading rhetoric about Obama, pals, and terrorists. I imagine they’ll muffle that message beginning yesterday, at least if they’re even slightly capable of thinking rationally at this point. Listen to — or read […]
Dawgs, dogs, and bitches
Lucky for me, I personally know very few people who are voting for the Palin/Joe the Plumber/McCain ticket. But I do know a handful and here’s my snapshot of the three-headed Cerberus base: