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Author: Rebekah Kuschmider
I'm a mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by my political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
Most 2017 Halloween Costumes
Tomorrow is Halloween! And for many of us, Halloween means costumes. It also often means procrastination on making costumes. To help with you last-minute costume panic, I have come up with this list of costumes that require very little effort but combine…
Charlottesville
It began with young white men with torches. They took to the streets of Charlottesville because…I don’t know why. Because someone told them they shouldn’t say the n-word? Because a black president made them buy health insurance? Because someone wants…
Pour One Out For The Mooch. Raise A Glass For The First Amendment.
But the colorful language and sloppy handling of protocols for talking to the press is really a sideshow here. That sort of thing is almost lovable in its buffoonery. No, the real issue here is that the Mooch was acting as a foot soldier in the on-going Trump administration war on the press.
My Obamacare Story
In 2003, I was completing graduate school in Ohio and moving back to Maryland for a new job. One of my concerns in relocating was health insurance. I had been on the student health plan at my university, so I…
Make America Sick Again
Are you worried about losing your health coverage if Republicans follow through on their promise to repeal Obamacare? Yeah, well, Barack Obama is worried, too. The President headed to Capitol Hill this to meet with House and Senate Democrats to…
Day By Day
Oh my god, you guys.These past two weeks. There have been Nazis holding a jamboree in DC. There have been citizens helping each other in the most heroic ways. We are seeing the best of us in the worst of…
Open-Carry Hate
A friend of mine said something yesterday that snapped my head back a little. She reminded me that white/straight/male supremacy has been the rule, not the exception, for most of American history. It’s the past eight years that have been…
What Comes Next?
I’m going to go a little wonk-y here. It’s the thing that is keeping me sane this week so I figured I could share a little of that here. Please understand that I could be wrong on all counts. This…
Yesterday. Tomorrow.
My child wept. My friends and family in the LGBTQ community are afraid. My friends who are people of color are afraid. Women are numb with shock. I wept. I will weep again. This is the hurricane. This is the…
