My Facebook friend worried: "how will it affect my family when I’m working part time and just getting by? Am I on my own? I don’t want to hear the usual empty blathering. What will in mean in plain English?" Who wouldn’t wonder how the passage of the historic Health Care Bill translates from a […]

  I love Joe Wilson. Again! Which sets me up here and now to make sure a critical distinction is made. Joe Wilson is not Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador whom I really do love for the devotion and fiery outrage he’s displayed in nonstop defense of his wife, outed CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame. […]

9/09/09 What Still Ails America By Mary Lyon Okay, full disclosure, up top. Liberal here. Progressive. Especially about the mushrooming health care crisis in this country. I like the idea of a public option. I dislike how hate radio, political partisans, and manipulated tantrum-throwers have spread lies and helped pervert the public discourse about a […]

To This Partisan Irish Catholic, More Change We Can Believe In By Mary Lyon   Watching the pageantry accompanying the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy was striking, touching something way deeper in my heart than I expected.   Okay, full disclosure here – Irish Catholic, went to the schools, went to Mass, did the Missal […]

7 4 09 Freedom Isn’t Free – We Still Aren’t Free of Sarah Palin By Mary Lyon Happy Independence Day, on the eve of which we’ve been reminded that we are FAR from declaring our national independence from the Sarah Palin addiction. After watching her rambling, disjointed “W-T-F Moment” as she announced she’s not only […]

4 28 09 The Meaning of the Spector Switch By Mary Lyon Arlen Spector?!?!?! The first time I blurted that out was during an industry screening of Oliver Stone’s “JFK”, in which his name came up in connection with the rogue “magic bullet” issue. I just had another Arlen Spector blurt a few minutes ago […]