BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

(a powerful piece for and about women... everywhere) by Michele Toomey, PhD They said not a word, yet their deafening silence blocked out any sound. They did not stir, but their immobility stopped all movement. They were invisible, but in their view, nothing could be seen. They were the shamed. Piled each on top of each. They lay there face to face. A fitting way for shamed and shame to meet. Across the continents they reached. They covered all the earth. Their suffocating presence sucking out all the air. No one could breathe. No one could move. Life stopped and time stood still. Only their mind's eye could look. Only their inner voice could speak. But what to see or what to say? Better to stay asleep. For years they slept and never moved, frozen in time and space. For years their blank forgetfulness hid them from the shame. Exposure could not catch them as long as they weren't awake. Who would desire to know such shame? Better to stay asleep. Years passed and buried them in t...

Didya see the Palin/ Biden Debate? I did. And Palin cleared wiped the floor with Biden. I was fearful that Biden's suppsed experience and expertise would make Palin look like the Bimbo they keep trying to paint her as or the harpy they painted Hillary as. I was wrong! PHEW!! But then... I decided to listen to some talk radio. Both on the Right and The Left. All I can say is, "OMG are we all on the same planet? Did we all see the SAME debate?" My head is spinning from the spin. I need to lay down. PIT BULL KICKS WONK BUTT by Charles Hurt Joe Biden tiptoed out on stage last night wondering whether he'd face a lady pitifully out of her depth or the lipstick end of a pit bull. He found out real fast. Biden's striped-pants Washington wonk talk ran into a regular American who looked like a lady, talked like a hockey mom and smacked him around like a cat playing with a mouse. "Oh, man, it's so obvious that I'm a Washington outsider and someone just n...

We Don't Want More Liberal Representatives, We Want Stronger Ones Sorry I haven't posted today. I have been struggling for a week with pneumonia. Then I had a very bad PTSD trigger last week (totally unexpected and out of the blue) which really messed me up for a few days. I thought I was feeling better after a few rounds of IV antibiotics but now I feel like a truck's parked on my chest. Ugh. I couldn't even make my late Nana's famous latkes today - but I did get the kids to & from school. So with Olmert, Abbas, Bush, Condi and all the other clowns that are destroying what's left of their countries, here's some very interesting reading from Cenk Uygur . Happy Hanukah everyone. There is this misconception in the press and in Washington that the netroots and other progressive activists want their representatives to be more liberal. The myth is that we want to drag the party all the way to the left and take them away from the center. Nothing could be...