So, I was getting my hair highlighted today, and a woman in a chair near me was getting her hair done, too, and talking to her hairdresser. They started talking about the election, and I overheard the woman saying how corrupt the Democrats are. I looked at my hair dresser (whom I ADORE) and said […]
My Pantsuit Won’t Be White
By now you may have heard of a fabulous Facebook group called Pantsuit Nation – as of this writing, it numbers over 1.7 million members. 1.7 MILLION, people. That’s incredible. It’s a place to get your Hillary love on – to be positive and encouraging, to help the campaign and get out the vote, etc, […]
The Hitler Paradox
Dare we or don’t we dare? Make the equivalence or leave him alone in his bunker, self-inflicted bullet hole to the head? Conjure the awful ghosts of his unfathomable savagery, or consign them to rest, although a fitful one, as they certainly aren’t entitled to any semblance of peace, because we need to feel secure we […]
The Hate-Crime No One is Reporting
You know how in my last post I overanalyzed stuff? Not here. Not necessary. The writing is on the wall, clear as a swastika on a bathroom door. Yesterday, a friend on Facebook posted an Op-Ed in Swarthmore College’s newspaper, The Gazette, entitled “A Response to Yesterday’s Anti-Semitic Hate Crime from a ‘Whiny Brat Jew,’” […]
Travis Rudolph, Leah Paske and the Media Get it Right
Hi. I’m about to overanalyze something to within an inch of its life, because that is my superpower. A very touching Facebook post from a mother in Florida went viral, being reported in many news outlets – no doubt we will soon be seeing it in The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed and Upworthy at any […]
Verizon’s Offer I Must Refuse
Once upon a time, a woman foolishly thought when it was time to upgrade her phone, she could do it with ease. She was mistaken. What ensued was a colossal inconvenience of, granted, first-world proportions, but emblematic of a corporate giant’s disregard for and inability to respond to a long-time customer’s simple needs. The process […]
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