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Stevieslaw: A Good Kick in the Pants

I liked to visit my mother at the nursing home in the mornings.  She loved to be served breakfast.  She would sit in the big easy chair we had salvaged from her home, like a queen on her throne, and savor the food on her tray—usually something like oatmeal and stewed prunes, as she watched some talk show or other.  She’d have the sound up to a level that would make a jack-hammerer wince.  She never used her hearing aids. Read more »

Stevieslaw: Republican Platform draws the line at beheadings

In a contentious, fourteen hour debate, moderates defeated an amendment to the Republican Platform that would have allowed for the “beheading, boiling in oil, or burning at the stake of perverts.”  The amendment was defeated by a scant 4 votes.  The platform had previously defined “pervert” to include homosexuals, transgenders, atheists and people with suspicious moles or visible tattoos. Read more »