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join a call for action
MoveOn/Working Families/Indivisible is sponsoring a nation wide call with tips on what you can do to prevent our civil liberties and rights from being eroded ( Read more... ) -
Get Up! Stand Up!
I've been really energized by all the amazing pics of the Woman's March. Some of my favorite pics:
top - "crowds" at Trump's inauguration. bottom- DC today during the march.
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Some Pithy Words from The Guardian
Trump is now our president, and no savior will stand between America and its mess. Best case scenario, the most powerful man in the world is a New York Berlusconi. At worst? Picture an elderly, vindictive trust fund brat, surrounded by kleptocrats, racists and pucker-faced spawnlings, his toy box stuffed with spy tools and death machines, the likes ( Read more... ) -
Trump vs John Lewis
I've been working late a;; this week, so I've been off LJ the past few days. I thought I'd lead off with this ( Read more... ) -
How to make students hate poetry
Apparently on Texas' state assessment reading test, for both the 7th and 8th grade test two different poems are printed for students to answer multiple choice questions. The questions are so poorly thought out that the author of the poems in question had no idea what the answers were ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review: Fences
I saw Fences the other day and I was really impressed by it. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like it. It is a bit "stagey" (it was originally a play) but the acting is uniformly stellar and if Viola Davis doesn't win an Oscar, there is no justice in the world ( Read more... ) -
Awesome Robots!
Spectral Motion does astounding makeup and special effects, but the coolest thing they do is animatronics. These monsters look so real, you'd swear they're alive.
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happy new year!!!
I've been off line this week - hanging with the hubby and Aaron (Zachary was in Ohio visiting his girlfriend's family). Had some good meals, saw some movies and rested up. This coming year, I need to take action against the reactionary fever that has taken hold in this country, but we will prevail ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review: La La Land
We went out to eat Chinese food today (I had honey walnut shrimp and steamed grouper - delicious) and then we went to see a movie (of course ( Read more... )
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