If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I am speaking about Christian fundamentalism in today’s political climate (I’ll make it snappy! With puppets and stuff!) as part of a Simsbury Public Library series, Faith in the 21st Century at 2 p.m. on Sunday. I hope you’ll come and heckle. You can find out more and register (which is required) here.

So Candidate Trump went to a Black church last week

He donned a prayer shawl that was given to him by the Detroit pastor of the church he visited, Great Faith Ministries, and said he was there to learn. And he spoke (here’s his full speech). Of course, he spoke. Trump has struggled to gain traction in the African American community, and I’m not sure …

Oopsie! Here we are being towed by a towboat

So we have this boat. It’s an old boat. An old and creaky boat. An old and creaky boat that is erratic in its trustworthiness and sucks up money that we don’t actually have. And we love it — or one of us does. I mostly hate it, because I’m prone to seasickness. Usually, I am …

I stole this off of Cynical on Facebook

Here is Frederick Douglass‘ July 5th speech from 1852. I highly recommend it.

If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m speaking to Friends of the Enfield Library at noon tomorrow, Friday, and I hope you’ll come heckle.

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m speaking about Isabella Beecher Hooker at 6 p.m. Friday at the Grange Hall in East Haddam, as a guest of the Friends of the East Haddam Public Libraries. Suggested donation (to the Friends, not me) is $5 and refreshments will be served. Come on! Heckle! (Directions to Grange Hall are here.)

Why can’t a woman be more like a man?

As far as top leadership positions go, we mean. Patricia Arquette spent part of her Oscar acceptance speech talking about gender equality. Hillary Clinton just gave a speech out in Silicon Valley discussing it. A new Pew Research Center poll explores why there aren’t more women in management, or in top political jobs.

Drop what you’re doing and read this now.

The fabulous Ta-Nehisi Coates takes down the folks who took umbrage at Pres. Obama’s  speech at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast last week, in which he had the gall to quote history. And thanks, Jenipher, for the link.

The President gives his State of the Union address tonight.

We already know some of what he’s going to say. What else should he say? Insert your answers in the comments, and we’ll pull some strings here at DJ Central and…nah. I’m lying. He won’t ever see them, but have at it, anyway. The speech starts at 9 p.m. tonight. And check out how interactive …

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!)