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Bags are Packed, Ready to Go
Hey y'all! I'm up early this morning, all excited because I fly to Oregon today. It was just about a month ago that I wrote the blog that started this whole thing. I could not have done it without...
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Finding Myself in Oregon
I have now been in Oregon for a week, and it is completely amazing! I arrived last Tuesday and was met at the airport by my Air BnB host, Annemarie, who whisked me off to a comfortable room. It is...
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Honest Personal Ad: Friday LOL
Hi, I’m lonely and desperate! The age I’ve listed is a lie, by the way, but since you’re lying about your age too, consider it self-defense. My height, that’s the truth, but I’m using a...
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TV that doesn't suck: Black Mirror and Mr. Robot
Mr. RobotBlack Mirror Two television shows portraying a dystopian near future have recently come to my attention as being thought-provoking, well-done, and critical of the status quo. Yet the two shows...
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Fox News needs a warning label
Not evil. Just confused. We get so angry at the individuals who act out right-wing talking points in their lives like Kim Davis. It's been making me uncomfortable and I've figured out why: they've been...
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What it Means to be a Socialist: C. Hedges
Chris Hedges gave a speech yesterday at a Green Party event in California. I find it so relevant and important that I hope everyone will head over to Truthdig and read it. Here's an appetizer: A...
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Half of America is Poor
How can we help you? As I'm reading about poverty, I keep seeing a figure of about 45 million people counted in the American poor. That's the number of people under the poverty line, as determined by...
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Obama Visits Prisoners: Smells Like Christ
President Obama visited with federal prisoners last Thursday. He talked with six inmates during filming of a Vice special on criminal justice reform that airs Sunday on HBO.The visit was the first by...
View ArticleAdvice please: Amplifying Homeless Voices
As you may know, I've been zoning in on a focus for my poverty book. I'm still in the middle of an ambitious immersion journalism project wherein I've been living in abject poverty for almost ten...
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My New Political Polling Job
Now that I'm a pollster, it's incomprehensible to me that the data I'm producing is actually useful to anyone. We almost always call land lines, which a lot of people don't even have anymore. Eighty...
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ABOVE THE POVERTY LINE! WOO HOO! THANKS Y'ALL!!!
So grateful, and ready to give back! Yesterday I woke up with a scratchy throat and cough. If I had still been in South Carolina, there wouldn't have been anything I could do about it. I would have had...
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Having Left the South, Health care at last & the underground red state...
The tiny house I'm saving up for Hey y'all, having left the South, things have changed. Most importantly, I have health care! It's pretty good except for the long waits. I have a pinched nerve that...
View ArticleI'm Disabled, My Boss Abused Me, Now what?
I started working at a political polling firm on 10/2/15. On my application I indicated that I had a disability, and on the first day I went to the HR person to tell her about my Asperger's syndrome. I...
View ArticleThe Horror and Shame I Can't Get My Head Around: Why #Black Lives Matter
Like every good-hearted American, the events of the past few weeks and months have been increasingly discouraging and depressing for me. All of the videos, some of which I can’t watch...at first I...
View ArticlePolitical Comedy is Crucial: Black Voices Matter.
I was distressed to hear that The Nightly Show was cancelled. I think Larry Wilmore is smart and funny, the rest of the crew is talented each in their own way, and I found the show welcoming in that...
View ArticleCan't stop crying. Scared to leave my room. Help.
I can’t look at new stories. There doesn’t seem to be any hope anywhere. Even Colbert’s reaction didn’t help. Half the country hates me as a woman. America just elected an abusive, bullying sexual...
View ArticleIs the GOP plotting to make Pence president?
What if the Republicans impeach Trump and Mike Pence becomes President? This is a man who has said that gay people should be imprisoned. While Trump seems to be getting in the Republicans’ way, Pence...
View ArticleFeel bad? Watch #UnitedShades and be uplifted.
I just finished watching the first episode of the new season of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. It was a pretty shitty news day, and I’m in a pretty shitty space. But Mr. Bell has...
View ArticleQuick poll: What should my freeway sign say?
My 40” by 90” painted white cardboard is ready. Now I can’t decide what to paint on it! It’s going up on I-5 in Eugene on an overpass near the mall, kinda in Springfield, which is Trump country. Please...
View ArticleMy First Freeway Sign
When I first read FreewayBlogger’s posts, I was intrigued. The stuff he does looks so cool! And way more people read it than read our blogs here (no offense, my fellow Kossacks, but we’re preaching to...
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