He swings… he misses!

He swings… and… misses…
In his curiously depressing inaugural speech Obama described this country as basically being in the cold and dark grip of winter, with no hope in sight. We are “in the midst of crisis”… “gathering clouds and raging storms”…”sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, [...]

NOW or Later?

Excellent satire at The Confluence
A taste:
M”y first act as president will be to change the name of the organization to “LATER” which stands for “Ladies After True Equal Rights.” Just imagine the chants at tea parties:
What do we want?
EQUAL RIGHTS!
When [...]

Hillary’s Inauguration

With a performance that was confident, informed, intelligent, articulate, and devastatingly convincing, Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly be confirmed on Thursday as the next Secretary of State.
For those, like me, who were won over by her last year in the primaries, it was bittersweet to watch her handle tough (and some foolish) questions, on subjects ranging [...]

THIS is what a feminist Looks and Sounds like!

“Of part articular concern to me is the plight of women and girls who comprise the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unschooled, unfed, and unpaid. If half the world’s population remains vulnerable to economic, political, legal and social marginalizationˆour hope of advancing democracy and prosperity is in serious jeopardy. The United States must be an [...]

A PUMA Christmas

In a holiday letter, one of those newsy “this is what we did all year” things, a friend gave thanks that we now have a president coming who “really cares about people”.
I found that stunning. Does she think that Bush doesn’t care about people? Or that Clinton didn’t care about people? Or Bush Sr.? [...]

Whose agenda is it anyway?

Yesterday Betty Jean asked me to access this blog and remove a picture link to “The New Agenda”. TNA had demanded that she do so. Some of you may have seen on other blogs emails that Amy Siskind has sent to other people, in which she says some very harsh things about Betty Jean. [...]

Support for Betty Jean and Family

An open thread so that friends can leave encouragement for Betty Jean, Louisa, Dee, and the rest of the family.

Betty Jean on PUMA Radio 12/18/08

From “The Confluence”
Conflucians Say was pre-empted last night because Sheri Tag had a private interview with Betty Jean Kling, whose daughter Louisa was viciously shot in the face on Monday night. Sheri and Betty Jean would like to share this interview with you. You can find it here on NO WE WON’Ton PUMA [...]

Violence is Violence, and Murder is Murder

The term “domestic violence” has always angered me. It sounds like something kind of tame, domesticated, something that isn’t as serious as just plain old violence. Well folks, it is just as serious, and in fact, it is far more serious – and deadly – to those it affects. Women. And children.
Just because an attempt [...]

Mommy Issues at Forbes.com

From a jawdropping article at Forbes.com:
“Mrs. Bush is of a certain American type: wholesome, inclined to good works, a homemaker and mother, a supporter of the man she married, a smiling hostess. She is not flashy or colorful, overly intellectual or palpably shrewd, demonstrably independent or politically aggressive.”
In other words, Laura Bush knows her place [...]