by Heather Hastie | Sep 27, 2018 | US Politics, USA, Women
The final section of my last post, ‘Kavanaugh Conformation and Ford Accusation’, was “There’s Never Just One Victim”. (Of course, there were two in that post – Christine Blasey Ford and Debbie Ramirez.) It included a tweet from...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 24, 2018 | US Politics, USA, Women
For days I’ve been trying to write a post about Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teens. And for days I’ve been deleting everything I wrote and starting again. I want to...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 9, 2018 | US Politics
On 5 September (that read “yesterday” when I began this post!) the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed from a senior Trump official. He or she said they were part of a group of senior officials within the administration who are doing their best to...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 27, 2018 | Tweets, US Politics
Hi everybody. It’s about time I did a post to justify my existence, so here I am. I was having a look at Twitter and found some nice tweets, and thought I could put them in a post. Then, of course, I had to think of something to write about. A fellow NZ atheist...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 9, 2018 | Health, Human Rights, US Politics
This quick post about Trump and asbestos is mainly to let you know I’m still here, as well as to bring an un-effing-believable situation to your attention. I’ve had my new chair for about ten days. I assumed everything would be hunky-dory as soon as I got...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 29, 2018 | Economics, Guest Posts, US Politics
Virginia Kruta (left), an associate editor for the conservative Daily Caller site. wrote an article last week about attending a Democrat rally. Kruta couldn’t believe what she was hearing. All these people thought the commonweal should be expanded to cover all...
