Kate/A/blog

Cancer markers are dropping, from 96 to 37 now.  The last round of chemo was horrendous though but I'm taking a break for a month.  Whew...

A few months ago I was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer.  We are hopeful and I am fighting, hair falling out, down to 93 pounds n...

Baby boy Sept 29 - at 8 lbs. 12 oz. Name to be decided, or TBD for now. 

Cannot stomach Mitt Romney but do like running mate Paul Ryan.   Not because I know whether or not Ryan is a good man or suitable for vice ...

Kimmie Rhodes/Willie Nelson

Obama, Clinton, Bush DMZ. 

U.S. sergeant kills 16 in Afghanistan.  The kind of story that makes decent people cringe. Another body blow to a servile and battered U.S. ...

The "alternative" sites still passing off rumor and imagination as news.  The US is amassing troops on a couple of "strategi...

Robert Flack (When this hairdo was popular we used to say "rock my stuff with my afro puffs.)

Georgetown University officials have released a statement defending law student Sandra Fluke, calling Rush Limbaugh’s attacks “misogynistic”...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned the U.S. is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by go...

Stumbled upon this from Think Progress. "Rep. Allen West Falsely Claims China Controls The Panama Canal, Calls It A ‘Serious Thre...

Rev. C. L. Bryant, former NAACP chapter president, now Tea Party member conservative. Of course, liberal/progressives call him a fraud, th...

Isn't this the sorriest election cycle? Barack Obama versus Mitt Newtered. If I voted republican I would have to choose Gingrich over...

All black folks can sing. (Not really, I have a grandchild with a voice that will make babies cry, dogs howl, and empty out a room.) On the...

Joseph 12/15/45 - 11/18/11

Believe

OccupyWallStreet. What will eating, sleeping, defecating/urinating, sex in sleeping bags and trashing a public park accomplish? Catching a...

Elizabeth Warren: "You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods t...

Gene McDaniels February 12, 1935 – July 29, 2011

My Grandfather's War My Dad's War My War My Sons' War

Some folks are shilling about what's really going on in Libya (or as Gaddafi named it, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jama...

Wyatt Joseph b.08/28/11 in Washington.

Wikileaks : WikiLeaks cables expose Washington’s close ties to Gaddafi. From the headline I would think US pols are good buddies with ...

Buffett at it again. He wants to pay more taxes. Heh heh heh. Sure he does. Then he should pay himself more than the $100,000 a year inc...

After decades and decades of life experience it has dawned on me that there really is nothing much that can be done by the "common...

The lawyer for the suspect in the Norway twin attacks says his client is a "very cold" person who took drugs before the rampage ...

Disparities in health tend to fall along income lines everywhere: the poor generally get sicker and die sooner than the rich. But in the U...

I was trying to detox from this story but so many people, particularly talking heads, seem completely off the mark regarding the dynamics of...

Bachmann Signs Pledge with Questionable Slavery Reference. Rep. Michele Bachmann is the first Republican presidential candidate to sign th...

Had enough of Casey Anthony yet? What a disgusting circus. Folks sleeping on the sidewalk to get court passes, trampling, fighting, screec...

I watched several videos of the Oscar Grant shooting and read the stories a couple of years ago when the incident took place. Grant was...

Anthony Weiner. What a schmuck. Self-centered, egotistical, lascivious. Immoral, vulgar, dishonest. Licentious, liar. Disloyal, unfaith...

I guess you know the "racially charged" stories of 2 women*, Tanya McDowell of Connecticut and Kelley Williams-Bolar of Ohio,...