Clementine came up and said this to me this morning. I guess she’d seen the television news somewhere last night. I didn’t know where to begin… In retrospect, I probably should have started by asking why Paula Deen’s death would bring her anything but sadness, but, instead, after taking a few minutes to process what […]
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Keep Mike Eller off City Council…. tell your friends!
Yesterday, shortly after I announced that I’d be hosting a fundraiser for FLY Children’s Art Center at Woodruff’s on September 8, someone left a comment on the site, alerting me to the fact that the Katie Whitehouse, the director of FLY, had a Mike Eller sign in her front yard. “I can’t believe the head […]
Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged abortion, accusations of socialism, America First Party, Communism, discrimination, dismantling of public education, Earth Day, environmental protection, EPA, fear of Communism, FLY Children's Art Center, homophobia, John Birch Society, Karen Maurer, Katie Whitehouse, Leon Trotsky, local income tax, Maurer Management, Mike Eller, OSHA, Paul Robeson, Pete Murdock, separation of church and state, sexism, sexual harassment, Socialism, sodomy, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, the threat of Socialism, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project, women's liberation, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 3, zoning 92 Comments
The Pill
I was going to let the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill go by without comment, but then it dawned on me how ironic it was that it fell on Mother’s Day. I’d have to dig into the old history books to confirm it, but I’m thinking that maybe it wasn’t a coincidence. Maybe, […]
Posted in Health, Politics, sex Also tagged 50th anniversary, Anthony Comstoc, birth control, Elena Kagan, family values, Greenwich Village, Helen Gurley Brown, Holly Golightly, John Paul Stevens, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Loretta Lynn, marriage, Mothers' Day, Ms. Magazine, National Organization for Women, New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, pregnancy, RIck Santorum, Sex and the Single Girl, sex for recreation, sex for reproduction, Shepard Aronson, songs about birth control, Supreme Court, The Pill, women's health, women's liberation, women's rights 10 Comments