Sunday, September 3, 2006BINGE DRINKING, DRUGS AND THE MYTH OF THE WILD, WILD WESTIt was some years ago that RG and I went back to his home town of Cody Wyoming for his 20th high school reunion. I was city girl, born in New York, having lived most of my adult years in Boston and had never experienced the wide open spaces of the American west. That trip was an eye opener. The... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 3:38 PM Comments (7) (link) Friday, September 1, 2006EVIL DOERS DISAPPEAR. IT'S NOW TIME FOR THE APPEASERS!GW Bushie, el presidente, has given up on the "evil doers" of yore. It is now time to drag "The Appeasers" up on to the chopping block or guillotine (take your pick - this administration is living in the mystical medieval days of knights and kings and feudalism so I think hauling out the stocks and... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:08 PM Comments (7) (link) Sunday, August 27, 2006AMERICA, THE CLASSLESS SOCIETYThat the ideologues responsible for building the conservative philosophy upon which our current administration rests have spiralled downward into total delusional thinking came into sharp relief as I compared two stories in yesterdays papers, one appeared on the editorial page of the NYTimes, the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 10:48 AM Comments (3) (link) AMERICA, DUMB, DUMBER and GETTING DUMBER STILL...After 102 comments and still counting on my last post covering this topic at GATHER.COM, I could not believe my luck in today's NYTimes, yet more ammunition to indicate that our country is being dragged back to preliterate times by the religious right. The headlines read: EVOLUTION MAJOR VANISHES... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:31 AM Comments (0) (link) Friday, August 18, 2006AMERICA, DUMB AND DUMBERWhile the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch the ongoing tug of war for control of the state school board. For those of you who are unfamiliar... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:45 PM Comments (5) (link) |
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