The nutroots know the value of keeping control of the language used to frame any issue and update the definition of teabaggers and teabagging here. One of the sayings in my family as I grew up was, “Never argue with a crazy person!” We had one, and those who did got no pity. I don’t …
Author Archives: CynthiaYockey
How to give an interview at your Tea Party
Left Blogistan is gloating about how to interview persons attending the Tea Party protests on April 15 to make them look like fools and bigots. I was a reporter for two years of my well-spent youth for the Harford Democrat in Maryland. I have some advice. Here’s how to give an interview at your Tea …
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The blessing of eternal Grace
My dear little Grace was diagnosed with lymphoma in December 2007. I thought she had only a few days to live and got her veterinarian’s permission to titrate the prednisone he had prescribed to twice the dose he had initially ordered. It worked and she put on weight again, but he said that this typically …
Ignore Meghan McCain on gay marriage at your peril, G.O.P.
On my daily rounds I came across one or two blogs denouncing Meghan McCain, which is not unusual, but somehow my curiosity was piqued. Anyway, I clicked through on the links and found — you are shocked, I’m sure — that I am delighted with Ms. McCain’s explanation of why she supports gay marriage and …
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Iowahawk names Mother Nature as his favorite MILF
… and calls for photos here.
Why wind energy blows
I hate wind turbines and the entire wind power gestalt with the fusion-powered hatred of a thousand suns. They are eyesores, expensive and unreliable. And I don’t think anyone has studied the impact they will have on bird and insect populations. This is especially important when bees are affected. They pollinate our food. If they …
THIS is what we should call 'gay marriage'
When I wrote last week about my joy over the court decision that allows lesbians and gays to have same-sex marriages in Iowa, near the end of the post I pointed out that our healthcare system is a far bigger threat to marrriage right now than gay marriage, which is totally not a threat to …
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You can only mature in your true sexual orientation
After I wrote my post on Lindsay Lohan’s agonized response to the break-up of her two-year lesbian relationship, I realized there is something else I need to point out. You can only mature emotionally and psychologically when you are living in your true sexual orientation. You cannot mature — or heal — when you are …
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If Kathy Griffin won't mock Lindsay Lohan, no one else should, either
I am vaguely aware that there is a young celebrity named Lindsay Lohan. Our dear Stacy is gloating over her break-up with her lesbian lover of two years, Samantha Ronson (whom the prudes at Us magazine called “Sam,” which strikes me as intentionally deceitful), in hopes that her next lover will be male — and …
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And to think, just 40-some years ago, EMU expelled my lover for being a lesbian
In the late 1960’s, before I met her, one of my lesbian lovers — who looked almost exactly like the character of Shane in “The ‘L’ Word,” played by Katherine Moennig — was expelled from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, for being a lesbian. (This relationship was while I was at the University of …
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