Oh, where to start…

So we all took a break from the blog to celebrate Thanksgiving (or basically wander off and do Other Stuff), and now we’re back. While we were apart, a recount in Wisconsin was started, and the Clinton campaign will participate.. Fidel Castro died. So did Mrs. Brady. And Det. Harris (and thanks, Leftover, for the reminder). …

I heart Michelle Obama

And thanks, Leftover, for this wonderful reminder of things that are good and righteous.

What people are wondering about Clinton and Trump:

Please to bite me

So let’s pause a moment and acknowledge that no matter what a woman in power does, she will always, always be doing the wrong thing with her mouth. She isn’t smiling. she’s smiling too much. It really doesn’t matter. She’s doing it wrong. Here’s more on the neoconservative nitwit who tweeted that. Bless his heart. …

About last night, part deux…

As said on Twitter by Brad Heath, an investigative reporter for USA Today: “For 4 hours, more people were searching for info on our future leaders on Google than for porn. We did it, America.”

Who gets to debate?

Not Green Party candidate Jill Stein or Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, evidently, and Stein is crying foul. Will a mano a mano between Clinton and Trump bring more ratings than adding the two other candidates? That’s a big question because at the end, the decision rests with shekels. An organization I belong to and love, …

The middle class is not mentioned in the Bible

Read this thought-provoking piece by Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Miroslav Volf are the authors of “Public Faith in Action: How to Think Critically, Engage Wisely, and Vote with Integrity.” McAnnally-Linz and Volf explore politicians’ (all of them) focus on the middle class (which didn’t exist in Biblical times), at near complete exclusion of the poor (who did).

A quarter of American voters won’t vote if it’s Clinton v. Trump?

A Rasmussen Reports survey from last week said that 24 percent of American voters will sit out the next election if it’s Clinton/Trump. The survey also found that: Trump is more toxic within his own party than Clinton is in hers. If Trump is the Republican nominee, 16 percent of GOP voters say they would choose …

If you’ve nothing better to do….

I’m on Helen Evrard’s Wordifference program on WESU at 6 p.m. today, talking about homelessness, and you can listen here. At 7 p.m. today, I’m at the Henry Carter Hull Library at 10 Killingworth Turnpike in Clinton tonight, talking about Isabella Beecher Hooker and signing books. But that’s totally possible because the first one is …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m speaking about Isabella Beecher Hooker (do I ever speak about anything else?) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Henry Carter Hull Library in Clinton. You can find out more here. (The book is coming out soon in paperback. Yay!)