I spend quite a while yesterday morning online researching Sarah Palin’s racism both overt and implied.  So this evening on the subway when My Kid asked me what color Obama was… I immediately started going through the Rolodex of my mind searching for facts I could tell her about his white mother from Kansas and [...]

Last night, My Kid was watching “The Wizards of Waverly Place” on the Disney Channel (where the characters are drawn with such a broad brush one has to do a double-take just to register that the show is live action and not a cartoon).  The main character and her friend had an encounter with the [...]

I caught a few minutes of “The View” today.  Elisabeth Hasselbeck is one of the hosts.  She used to host “The Look For Less” on the Style Network.  It was a show about  shopping and makeovers for ordinary people on a budget, copying runway style in preparation for a special event.  I watched it a [...]

   Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you [...]

After college I left Montana to find work.  A year or two later I desperately wanted to return home but couldn’t find a job that covered rent.  While visiting my then boyfriend at his father’s home on Flathead Lake, we went out to a bar.  I was introduced to one of his father’s friends, one [...]