Playing Musical Chairs With Our Morals

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Christine Noble

English: Playing musical chairs at the Our Community Place Lawn Jam in Harrisonburg, Virginia on June 28, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Score another one for the American voter’s cheer leader mentality about politics. This latest brouhaha over the NSA reading our e-mails, Facebook posts, and other online activities has highlighted that phenomena quite nicely. Since the news came out you have seen the usual suspects either defending or demonizing the President based on their party. There are, of course, those who question this invasion into our privacy based on actual moral conviction. Some folks are not so tied up in love of their party to condone or condemn based on the President’s affiliation. Sadly, if my interactions on social media are any cue, that is not the case by and large. Continue reading →

Pay No Attention To The Men Behind The Curtains

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Christine Noble

Keywords: Supernumerary rainbow, rainbow, airy arc (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sometimes I feel like I’ve stumbled into Oz. No, not the old cable TV show about prison life, but Mssr. Baum’s fantasy world. There are times where what I read, hear, and watch does not quite seem real. Indeed, so much of what the mainstream media presents is not real. At best we get watered down reporting, diluted so the masses do not consume too much of that oh so dangerous mineral: truth. Through it all you have two groups of Americans, self-described conservatives and self-described liberals, who have actually fooled themselves into thinking they are drinking the elixir veritas. Continue reading →

Forbidden Manna

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Christine Noble

Rain (Photo credit: Meyer Felix)

Kaylee keeps her head down, eyes obscured in her hood, as she makes her way home on the walkway following the Jefferson canal. It is raining, hard, and she tries to ignore it as it runs down her gray, plastic coat. It is only the third Nor’easter this week and it is Saturday, which means it was a good week. Forbidden manna falls from the sky and she pretends it does not matter as it trickles, wasted, at her feet. Continue reading →

The Incredible Shrinking God

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Christine Noble

Pendant depicting the Dwarf God Pataikos Egypt 664-525 BCE Faience (Photo credit: mharrsch)

June is upon us once more, which means, among other things, that the Pride Parades have begun in earnest. Today my new hometown of Buffalo enjoyed theirs. It was a fun spectacle, and always great to see so many queer folk and our allies out there refusing to be silenced. No more being forced into closets no matter how much some may howl that we belong there, or in hotter places. I was fortunate that my friends and were nowhere near those poor baying beasts, but out there they were, shouting their hate and fear to any who would listen. Continue reading →

Friday Nite Poetry: We’re Still Doing This, Right?

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Christine Noble

English: Barbie Portrait (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yikes! So, it’s been some little bit since I have done Friday Nite Poetry. I have to get my self organized and motivated and write like a fiend when I have the time so I just have this ready to go for you before Friday rolls around.

Today I have two new and weird ones for you, I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them: Continue reading →

Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Christine Noble

English: US Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) addressing a Tea Party Express rally outside the Minnesota state legislature (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have defended her against those that use unflattering pictures out of context to paint her as crazy (what public figure doesn’t have pics like that out there?) I have challenged those that attack her lack of eloquence rather than her policy ideas to debate in a more mature fashion. I have called out those who disseminate misogynist memes with her picture on them. All that said, I am very glad Michelle Bachmann is leaving Congress. Continue reading →

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