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I was going to post about my frustrating day installing an air conditioner in Brother Bill's trailer, but the trials and tribulations of these young ladies brought me back into some perspective:…

hi all. my war bookmarks runneth over and have a very ominous feeling last few weeks/ months. sometimes the world seems like it could go up in flames any moment. NKorea threatening with nukes and the warmbier case,[i] and the middle east a massive tinderbox with so many hostile countries making loud noises (to say the least): syria, russia[l], iran, saudia arabia, qatar,[r] ISIS,[j] even china[o]…

People make plans and the gods laugh...

A year ago I told my boss I'd retire after the summer programs were done. I offered to volunteer enough hours to keep my beloved arts camps and apprenticeship programs alive. 

I knew the Rockford Arts Council couldn't afford me anymore. Donations and corporate contributions were down in a local economy that has never recovered from any recession. And we weren't getting our operating grant from the state any time soon. Illinois is in a…

MY PRIDE

by Tommi Avicolli Mecca

© 2017

My pride is not a commodity

it has no corporate sponsors

no bank account 

no value on the stock…

Now that Melania has climbed into bed with the President & joined other 1st Ladies who have done the same...no, let me start over.…

I've been living in Bastrop, TX since September 2016 and I haven't written much about that experience.  It's pretty routine in that everyday I get up sometime before 8:00 am have my coffee and smoke my cigarette out on the porch and then check out what's going on at Our Salon.  Sometime between 10:00 in the morning and 3:00 in the afternoon I get in the car and take my older brother Bill out for breakfast or lunch and make sure he takes his pills.…

Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who's still there?

Couldn't happen to a better guy.

Let's see if this…

Katie McHugh, who previously worked at The Daily Caller, said in a tweet Monday that “Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration.”

McHugh was…

For the past week or so I've been collecting links to stories about the situation in Portland, Oregon with the idea of posting about how the grotesque hate crimes of a deranged maniac, whose name I will not mention resulted in the murders of Rick Best, 53, and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche.  Anna Herrington posted…

true story

Around 20 years ago while living in…

Memorial Day is supposed to be something more than the Indianapolis 500, backyard barbecues and Big Box store sales.  Try to ignore hubris of the Beast "45" and take a moment to reflect on those, living and dead, who truly sacrificed to make America great. …

What do you wanna bet that this A-hole gets elected?

...and here's the video:…

It's been a while since I posted.  Haven't had much to say.  Then I surfed into this article on Salon.com:  Why Trump Lies It’s not just to hide the truth. It’s to alter reality,…

The Justice Department just appointed Former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a Special Counsel to Investigate the Campaign of the Beast "45" and the Russia Connection, James Comey's dismissal and whatever else may yet to be found:…

hi all. used to write about conspiracy theory a lot on my old salon site & got a lot of hits on that. havent been quite as active on that subj here but have written a bit. lately conspiracy theory has become semi mainstream which makes it quite a bizarre situation. the minority view is now widespread.[e]

theres a lot of factors behind this, but Trump himself seems to be one of the biggest conspiracy theorists. (by now some of the early findings/ jury is in on the…

I got an email today from Dreamstime reminding me to call my Mom.  Wouldn’t that be wonderful?  She passed away Christmastime of 1993 and I still have the urge to pick up the phone, and occasionally hear her call my name.  This Sunday is Mother’s Day.  I hope you can still have an open line.

To mothers everywhere, Love and Thanks for Everything.…

Couldn't resist this one:

Chris Matthews sums it up with his Freudian reference to the "Saturday Night Live Massacre."

...and then there's Stephen Colbert:…

White House fires its chief usher — the first woman in that job...

...The White House has fired its chief…