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Thoughts on the Eve of the Fourth of July

Published on 2011-07-03 17:18:00

My grandmother believed as I do that St. Francis of Assisi – featured above – was an incarnation of the Horned God Cernunnos – the Celtic Lord of the Wild Places. The early Christians reviled Him as a symbol of the devil, but to us He is a symb > read more

Give Me a Damn Break

Published on 2011-06-28 15:17:00

I don’t vote for Popes. I don’t vote for Saints. I don’t vote for ethereal, mindless demigods with a pronounced inability to mind their own business. I vote for Democrats when they stand four-square on the Democratic platform. That platform use > read more

A Day in Stupidville

Published on 2011-06-10 17:31:00

We no longer have a body politic in this country. We have a bloody circus. There are lions and lion tamers, clowns and hawkers, freaks and trapeze artists flying high above reality with nothing but a thin net of lies below. Dogs dance, horses pranc > read more

Plain English

Published on 2011-05-15 14:26:00

This country suffers from a chronic, degenerative spiritual disease. Like cancer it has a first cause and then a series of symptoms. In particular the symptoms are hate, narcissism, cruelty, bigotry, deceit, fraud, misrepresentation and elitism. The > read more

Climate Change

Published on 2011-05-02 17:52:00

I give you Virginia Foxx, North Carolina, 5th District, I.Q. two points above plant life. This creature vehemently denies the phenomenon of climate change, but then again she hates science like so many members of her cabal. I have come to suspect th > read more

I Dissent

Published on 2011-05-01 15:55:00

During the Bush Administration, just following 9/11 and beyond, it was proffered and understood by the Republicans that anyone who questioned the president was engaged in treason. Anyone who doubted the wisdom of one of his policies was aiding and ab > read more

How the Randites Run

Published on 2011-04-15 16:05:00

Paul Ryan is a Randite. Alan Greenspan was a Randite. Many members of the rightwing Conservative and Tea Party Caucus are Randites. That is to say that they subscribe to the ideas of an American novelist, Ayn Rand. Her philosophy known as Objectivis > read more

The People's Budget

Published on 2011-04-14 11:16:00

This is a very important link. I love this guy. This is the most intelligent thing that I have heard since this whole budget sham heated up. Please call your congressman or woman and endorse this. Call the Republicans in your area too, they can't > read more

So Long

Published on 2011-03-23 21:37:00

Elizabeth Taylor died today. Many women of my generation considered her to be the most beautiful woman who ever lived. With her violet eyes, double thick lashes, jet black hair, perfect skin and at one time perfect figure, she held the Twentieth Cent > read more

The Bad Old Days

Published on 2011-03-15 17:21:00

John Boehner is a pig. Eric Cantor is a pig. In fact all of the Republican House members are pigs. They go oinking through the Halls of Congress trying to turn back the clock on Women’s Rights. However, the real criminals are the women who enable t > read more

The Whoring of America

Published on 2011-03-09 15:24:00

Henry James wrote: “We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have, our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task …” James was speaking of art, but he could have been speaking of anything today. We are all living in the Ne > read more

A Glimpse into the Shadows

Published on 2011-03-07 13:16:00

When did our public servants, our elected officials, become our superiors? When did our legislators, supposedly accountable to the electorate, become ruling nobility with the same contempt for the working men and women who put them in office as Louie > read more

What the Bloody Hell is Going on in This Country

Published on 2011-02-17 16:08:00

The toads in Washington talk about entitlement reform as if it will solve our fiscal problems. It will not, not even close. Thugs like Walker in Wisconsin or Christie in New Jersey insist that crippling the public employees’ unions will solve their > read more

The Quest

Published on 2011-01-28 14:42:00

Chris Carter the creator of The X-files is a modern day Shakespeare – poet and prophet. I first watched his program many years after it had gone into syndication. I was up late one night, as I often am, and I turned on the TV, as I usually do. This > read more

Only the Rich Need Apply

Published on 2011-01-27 15:03:00

I have just called my Senator Bennett, my Congressman Polis, and the White House. I have insisted upon the following:1) Social Security is a return on an investment, it is not a hand out. Please treat it accordingly. The rich have no monopoly on inve > read more

The Problem with Lies is the Truth Wants to be Told

Published on 2011-01-26 11:36:00

Read the corrections to the Gospel According to Bachmann, then ask yourself how in the hell does someone like this get elected dog catcher much less Congresswoman?http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201101250021 > read more

The Senselessness of It All

Published on 2011-01-14 17:14:00

I was a young woman when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I wasn’t yet old enough to vote - you had to be twenty-one back then. I was volunteering in Denver in one of his campaign offices with three other women that night when we got the news on th > read more

Welcome to Your Gestalt

Published on 2011-01-12 15:15:00

The word Gestalt is German in origin. It refers to a concept of wholeness. The wholeness of a life or the wholeness of a family. In examining the wholeness of our society including its discourse and extremes one has to take into consideration the fa > read more

A Message of Peace

Published on 2011-01-10 16:18:00

In the wake of the monstrous events in Arizona Dr. Deepak Chopra has just been on Dylan Ratigan's program. He asks that each of us get on our social network(s) and leave a message of peace. There is a meadow in my heart where the hills roll away in g > read more

Power of the Witch

Published on 2011-01-04 15:00:00

The first Dark of the Moon is upon us. The Great Crone walks among us. As the old expression says, Goddess is alive, magic is afoot. This is the time for dark magic - what the uninitiated call black magic. There is really only one magic, the lightnes > read more

Frauds, Fops and Four Letter Words

Published on 2010-12-30 16:06:00

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary entitlement is defined as: the state or condition of being entitled: Right. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entitlement) Entitlement is not a four letter word, except in the gaping maws of slic > read more

My Very Best

Published on 2010-12-19 12:21:00

“For the good of all, according to the free will of all,” my grandmother and her many sisters in the Craft taught me. To honor the free will and free mind of another person is to honor the highest good of all people. Pagans carry their freedom li > read more

Murder, Myth and Money

Published on 2010-12-14 09:21:00

I have always been fascinated by the case of Jack the Ripper. After seeing all the movies (including the silents) and reading everything I can get my hands on the desperate search for information has never abated. Certainly I am not alone in this obs > read more