In November we think about giving thanks, but there are other important days on the calendar. November is election month. Our local election was on the 7th, and Republicans in Virginia took a trouncing. I will give thanks that our governor, now without any legislative support, will not get to track women’s menstrual cycles. Nor will he get his abortion ban. Democrats now control our legislature, and that is a fine thing. Voters across America realize that this election was between the party that wants to take away our rights and the party who wants all citizens to have the right to control their -own lives without governmental interference. Most Americans know that we, the people, should be in charge of what we do with our bodies and who we love, not politicians. Another - often overshadowed by the others - holiday in the November calendar is Veteran’s Day. It used to be called Armistice Day, to celebrate the end of WWI and pay homage to the many who gave their l...
Oh, the wheel of right-wing hypocrisy goes round and round and never stops. Mike Pence (famously know for having no spine) who spent all the years of the Trump presidency slavishly adoring him, has entered the presidential race. After four years of his lèche-cul NOW he chooses to speak out against him ? This is not sincere. Pence has never been sincere in his life. It’s all an act. Everything he does has been in service to his political career, including now, denouncing the Trump lawlessness. Chris Christie, famously the most-hated, lowest-rated governor in the history of New Jersey, is also running for president. He gave a blockbuster speech to announce his entry into the race. He laid into Trump with power and wit, and accuracy, calling him a grifter. Which he is. Imagine if Christie has said this in, oh, 2016, rather than spending all of Trump’s years in the White House sucking up to ...