Displaced. Dysfunctional. Discombobulated.
From the category archives:
Since I’m leaving this Friday for the Christmas holiday, I thought it was appropriate to look back over the last 6 years at some of the ludicrousness that has resulted from the paranoia born of 9/11. Some fear is good, just enough too keep us aware and alive, but some common sense and sanity [...]
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I’ve been chewing on PunditMom’s post “How Are You Going to Vote?” for a while now. Mostly because it’s a subject that bothers me every election. PunditMom queries each of us if we are voting by consensus or by conscience? In other words, are we voting with the herd or voting with our heart? [...]
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I watched something on CNN the other night about Veterans’ Rights. Apparently, disability compensation for injuries obtained in Iraq and Afghanistan are based on the same compensation rates and policies set in WWII. Our soldiers are suffering unthinkable, life-altering injuries from weaponry not even imagined in WWII and the government is using a [...]
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Did you know that CNN rebroadcast the Democrat Debate all night long last night?
I had insomnia last night so I had the privilege of discovering this. Fortunately it was the kind of insomnia that allowed me a few spurts of sleep so I didn’t have to suffer through it all over and over, but [...]
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Half-watching CNN this morning as I got ready for work, I caught an interview with Lou Dobbs, who host his own nightly CNN show. What caught my attention was Dobbs’ prediction for the 2008 Presidential election — mostly because it’s something I’ve been saying I’ve been hoping for all year long since the usual suspects [...]
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I’ve written about the local controversy regarding the Portland School Board’s recent vote to allow the Health Center at King Middle School to provide birth control to students who range in ages 11 to 14. It’s been in the national news quite a bit thanks to outraged conservative talk show hosts like O’Reilly [...]
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According to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll, Sixty-seven percent of people polled support giving contraceptives to students and nearly that many (62%) believe that doing so will reduce the number of teen pregnancies. While, most who support schools distributing contraceptives do prefer that they only go to children whose parents have consented permission to do [...]
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Although the national coverage seems to have died down a bit, the local controversy regarding the Portland School Board’s decision to allow King Middle School’s Health Center to distribute medical birth control to students rages on. All of the national outrage has created some misconceptions as well as brought some excellent concerns to [...]
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Back in the 80’s, when I was in high school, I had some friends who lived near my grandparents. I wrote to them often back then but only saw them a few times a year. I’ll admit that looking back now, we came from different backgrounds, social classes, and financial situations. Of [...]
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Well, this is a bit of disturbing news that’ll probably be brushed under the rug since it was published on a Saturday.
Qwest, which was one of the few telecom companies to refuse to participate in the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, claims that they were approached in February 2001, 6 months before the September 11th [...]
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
-- Pat Conroy
What: The discombobulated inner-monologue of a single, thirty-something, displaced Southerner in small town New England.
Where: Maine
