Instead of wearing a damn safety pin…

I have five suggestions for showing solidarity with minorities. None of them involve wearing an accessory. Continue reading →

What not to ask Hillary Clinton

Why is it that female politicians get asked some of the dumbest, most irrelevant questions when they’re in office or on their way there? Continue reading →

Cheers Dr. Calvin Ball!!

Do me a favor. If you see Dr. Calvin Ball, District 2 Representative on the County Council, buy him a beer. Buy him a slurpee. Give him 4 tickets to an Oriole’s game (not the cheap seats). Or simply pat him on the back and say “thank you”. The County Council finally passed the nutritional … Continue reading →

Be a 3-minute advocate for Council Bill 17-2015

Hey y’all (in my Paula Deen voice, LOL)!! I have a quick and easy way for you to be an advocate today. Have you been keeping up with the council bill that will modify former County Executive Ken Ulman’s ban on sugary snacks and drinks? Click here if you want to read about it. It’s … Continue reading →

Don’t drop the Ball on the healthy snack options bill

Here we go again.  Controversy over something that has been taken out of context for political manipulation and gain. Some folks just love to start stuff and it makes my ass itch. Dr. Calvin Ball, District 2 Council Rep, created a very cool compromise in the tug of war over snack and sugary beverages. His … Continue reading →

Why I don’t vote in village elections

It just occurred to me that in the 10 years that I have been living in Howard County I have never voted in my village elections. And in the 10 years that I have lived in Dorsey’s Search I have never paid attention to the elections. And for the 10th year in a row, I’m … Continue reading →

About Uncle Ben Carson’s Remarks Regarding Gays

What’s on my mind? Dr. Ben Carson and his dreadful comments regarding people choosing to be gay.  Here is a man who is lauded as one of the most brilliant surgeons of our time making some very provocative remarks about someone’s sexual orientation. Put a pushpin in that because I’m coming back to that point … Continue reading →

Things that Make Me Shake My Head: Guns in Ho Co Public Buildings

I know I’ve been in a bubble lately but am I reading this right? My fellow Ho Co Blogger Tom Coale posted this last week. There is no prohibition against bringing  firearms into county-owned buildings on Howard County like the library, the courthouse, county hall (George Howard Bldg.)? Seriously??? This is sum bull!! Ok. Bull … Continue reading →

The 2015 Women’s Legislative Briefing is coming!!!!

Yeah baby YEAH!!! Picture it. A college campus in Montgomery County, Maryland on a crisp, Sunday afternoon in January. Information, exhibits, keynote address, riveting workshops, political big wigs from the state and county levels (except Howard County. Sorry!), and smiles, smiles, smiles. The 2015 Women’s Legislative Briefing is coming in a little over a month … Continue reading →

Governor-elect Larry Hogan doesn’t think Ferguson impacts Maryland. Yeah…ok

My Facebook friend posted that beautiful, famous quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that reads “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” He happened to post this on the same … Continue reading →