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The Great Toilet Debate of 2016: A Solution in Search of a Problem

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“Bathroom Bills” Are A “Solution in Search Of A Problem” – Chris Wallace, Fox News Host __________________   I am absolutely gobsmacked at the passion that this non-issue has created in such a short period of time; I (and others) have been blocked on Facebook by hysterical parents who feel that pedophiles will molest their children if we allow transgender people to use the restroom of the gender that does not match their birth certificate. Well, let’s get this truth out of the way right now: Male or female, you, like it or not, have most likely shared a public restroom with a transgender person and didn’t even know it. As the law stands now, a muscled, tattooed guy is not likely to hang out in the ladies’ room, and a lithe, frilly gal is not going to stand next to you at the urinal. But mull on these unintended consequences of Gender Laws for Public Restrooms: 1.        If laws specifying that if people must use the rest room that matches their birth certifica

Dear Republican Party... (by Rich Herrera, Guest Writer)

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Stop. Stop complaining about Donald Trump. Stop acting like you don’t know or understand how he got to where he got. He is exactly the result of your politics, which, along with your propaganda arm FOX News, manifest into this beast slouching towards the throne you decided you wanted, even at the expense of the country it rules over. Trump is not doing anything you haven’t been doing yourselves, for years. Lying? Your entire platform is based on lying and distortion. You are incapable of having an honest discussion. Death Panels? Obamacare? Weapons of Mass Destruction? Bragging? Do you guys not hear yourselves talk? America #1, despite only being #1 in mostly really shitty categories, like imprisonment and wealth disparity, while being terribly ranked in education, civil liberties, science, job security, etc. Racism? Bigotry? Your boy Ronnie Reagan with his “Welfare Queens.” Do you really think we don’t know what “States Rights” means? Waving Confederate flag

CarlyFiorina.org – Carly Fiorinia: A Cautionary Tale for Political Candidates, Famous People, and the Rest of Us, Too

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CarlyFiorina.org -- Carly Fiorina ____________________ The world is really run by the Web. There’s so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff. – Big Boi   ______________________   CarlyFiorina.org was registered on December 19, 2014, presumably by a former disgruntled employee of Hewlett-Packard (HP). For good reason, t he domain is registered under Contact Privacy , Inc, a privacy service out of Canada.  Politifact.com believes that the registrant of CarlyFiorina.org is a cybersquatter, but he or she is NOT. He or she is NOT monetizing this domain but using this valuable piece of the web to exercise his or her free speech rights, in this case making a definitive statement about Ms. Fiorina’s job-killing activities while she was CEO at HP. OUCH. No visitor would ever mistake this site as being pro-Carly Fiorina, and, therefore, there is no trademark or name infringement. The first rule of running for p

Another Bush in the Works???

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Fool me once, Shame on you; Fool me twice, Shame on me; Fool me thrice? Hell, NO!

Memoir Madness: Driven to Involuntary Commitment