Happy Birthday, Molly Ivins

we miss you very much.

















Photo: Carolyn Mary Bauman

"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States,

please pay attention"

Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins 8. 30. 1944 – 1. 31. 2007

Bon Voyage, EMK

a fitting farewell to an Irish rover...

100 year lag time for wireless tech

UNfunnies

IntimiNation

what "town hollers"
really wish they could carry unconcealed















but THESE are too dangerous,

I suppose.

"I’d take a gun to Washington if
enough of you would go with me.”
-- Tom Eisenhower (R-Racist), Link

Is he calling for an armed revolution?
Is that legal now - with a Black president?

surefire signs of "tyranny" by Obama administration

Is she back?

I'm not quite sure where Anita Bryant might be lurking these days...





but she bears an uncanny resemblance

to Sarah Palin if you think about it.

Sing louder!

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.









Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed


-- I, too, am America.






James Langston Hughes 2.1.1902 5.22. 1967

Wait a minute, what?

Michele Bachman

“People need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.“






we're so confused!

Tom Yesterday

a glance backward

Happy Birthday, O

just do your best, sweetie








Barack Hussein Obama
was born on August 4, 1961
in Honolulu, Hawaii, our 50th state
(for the mentally challenged)

"Spot" on again.

Remembering James Baldwin

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance,

allied with power,

is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"Education is indoctrination if you're white

subjugation if you're black"

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows

how extremely expensive it is to be poor"

James Arthur Baldwin 8.2. 1924 – 11. 30.1987
photo by Jacob Holdt and Alex Bath

My How the Grand Old Party has changed!

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party,
and they’re sure trying to do so,
it’s going to be a terrible damn problem.










Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”

"My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man,
if he doesn't first destroy himself,
will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines,
which will contribute to a vastly different
and better world in the twenty-first century."


I wonder if he can lie still at all...


Barry Morris Goldwater 1.1.1909-5.29.1998