Common Sense
It is still Domestic Social Policy, Stupid!
On April 10 @WashingtonMonthly published a blog post by @JoelBerg titled, “It’s Policy, Stupid.” This motivated me to search my past blog posts to find, edit and repost this one that I originally posted in 2014 as “It’s Domestic Social Policy, Stupid!”. Sadly, everything and nothing has changed. Where is the domestic social policy that once […]
MoreGeneration Gap or Generational Power?
What would happen if we actually stopped believing the generation gap hype? Forget generation, X, Y, Z, Baby Boomers. There is no generation gap that is meaningful in any positive way. We can all learn new things from each other no matter what our generation. Just imagine the power–personal, relational and political–we could wield if […]
More110 Degrees of Proof: Everything Happens for a Reason
This is a shout out to my new friend, L. Yesterday after running all of my errands, buying groceries and my first tropical fish, I was ready to go home. I’d had a great day and loved my beautiful new red male fighting fish. I just had to run into the store and get one […]
MoreDomestic Social Policy Part II: Where the Po’ People At?! (Re-post from 2008)
I don’t know why I keep raging against the machine and charging at windmills. All I know is that I feel an emptiness in America despite Barak and the chance we have in November. However, I cannot help but wonder, what about us? I wonder what about those of us outside the middle-class that is […]
MoreNote to Republicans: Ignorance is Not Bliss
It took me a while to digest what is happening in the House of Representatives. I cannot decide whether the class of 2010 thinks that the “mandate” they feel they got from their tiny little districts is really the voice of “the American people.” Or do they believe no one in those districts is poor, […]
MoreIICMEYCSM
Yvonne S. Sparks Yet another case of IICMEYCSM Syndrome: “If I close my eyes, you can’t see me.” Despite countless cases brought to the attention of authorities and the public, the condition is persistently unresponsive to the only known cure–common sense. Weiner admits lying about lewd photo, won’t quit news.yahoo.com A tearful Rep. Anthony Weiner […]
MoreBeyond the tea party: What Americans really think of government
When we allow nameless, faceless corporations and individuals to influence our election and define the issues for us, we will continue to get a government that does not meet our needs. All of those negative ads are disturbingly alike. They are not civic discourse illuminating the issues. The are in fact pure unmitigated marketing designed to lead us as if we are sheep to embrace their slogans. Their purpose is to inbed them in our psyches until we think that what they are telling is us true. That it is real. Those messages become that commercial jingle we just can’t get out of our heads even though it is irritating as hell!
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