Tag: Hillary Clinton

The Bookworm Beat 5-7-15 — the “Damn it, I’m a lawyer” edition and open thread

I spent way too much time today wearing my lawyer, daughter, and mother hats, with no time for my blogger hat. Well, the blogging time is now, and I’ve got lots of stuff to share. As is often the case when I’m tired, these are not in any particular order,

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The Bookworm Beat 4-14-15 — the procrastination edition and open thread

I have work to do today, but no actual deadlines, so naturally I’m procrastinating like crazy. And what better way to do so than to share a few interesting things with you? How about my starting with the most inspirational. I’ll go from the sublime to the ridiculous, which means

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[VIDEO] Bill Whittle on the rot at the heart of American politics

I always enjoy Bill Whittle’s videos.  He has a knack for describing social and political issues with tremendous clarity.  I’m convinced that ordinary Progressives (not the True Believers, but the knee-jerk voters), would change their views if they would make themselves watch a steady diet of Bill Whittle and Prager University videos. This

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“Ready for Hillary” PAC promotes a fresh-faced, young Hillary Clinton for President *UPDATED*

Having lived practically my entire life in liberal enclaves, most of my real-me Facebook friends have a liberal bent. Amongst the women, many are Hillary Clinton supporters. In the past few days, several of these women have been sharing on Facebook their enthusiasm for Hillary in 2016. To this end, they’ve been

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The Bookworm Beat 12/6/14 — Saturday sweep-up edition, and Open Thread

A cold has been making the rounds in my neighborhood and it finally caught up with me. I don’t feel particularly ill, but I feel congested and quite desperately sleepy. I had a great deal to do today, and mostly managed to re-read Agatha Christie’s Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, which wasn’t

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The Bookworm Beat — August 22, 2014 mid-day edition edition

Climate change hysteria will make you crazy We all know that it’s wrong to laugh at those who are mentally ill, but doesn’t it seem like there should be an exception for those whose particular mental illness takes the form of aggressive, obsessive climate change mania? Tim Blair’s brilliant fisking

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