Politicians: Bully 2

With so much well deserved attention placed on the recent brilliant Weinstein Brothers movie, Bully, and other school bullying campaigns of late, I thought it only fitting to focus on the continued bullying of our American political playground.  Yes, Amendment 1 passed last week in North Carolina, but who other than compulsive gamblers with a [...]

Komen Foundation, Planned Parenthood: A Race to Cure Blind Ideology

I am pro-Choice.  That means I am the decider when it comes to issues of personal health, personal happiness, and personal wealth…and with that, the distribution of such wealth.  Today, I have made the personal choice to strike the Susan G. Komen Foundation from my list of annual giving.  I choose to put people above [...]

LGBTQ Leadership Begins At Home

Last week, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, delivered to the United Nations an historic speech on human rights as it pertains to the Obama Administration’s renewed commitment to the world’s “invisible minority”, the LGBT and gender variant community. There is no denying the consequential and extraordinary aspects of the Secretary’s speech to the members [...]

Thankful I’m a One-percenter: Love, Family, Friendship

As regular readers of the ‘Schmootz blog can attest, I don’t write about myself very often…at least outside of my political ponderings or entertainment selections that I deem personally worthy (or unworthy) of a viewer’s time.  I tend to observe the world from thirty thousand feet looking down, instead of from ground level looking up [...]

Don’t Mess With History – TX Gov Perry Correlates GOP Tax Struggles to Civil Rights Struggle

Reiterating without repose the sad commonality that corporations are people, Republican presidential frontrunner, Rick Perry (R-TX), compared the GOP fight for lower corporate taxes to the Civil Rights Movement.  I’m not making this up.  Yesterday, on the day the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was opened in Washington, DC, Governor Perry was speaking to a [...]

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