Valentine’s Day 2012 – An Equal Opportunity Holiday

Regular readers know that I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day.  It’s not that I am lonely and bitter and prefer to wile away a cold February night in a dark room sipping tepid soup from a can and lamenting my lost loves, I just hate being told what to do…especially by corporate [...]

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 [...]

Always a Little ‘Schmootz in Our Hanukkah

I am not Jewish.  Though it may surprise some of my readers, the name Mindschmootz comes from all the mental plaque that builds up in my brain.  My better three quarters, who is Jewish, refers to all that mindless crap up there as schmutz…as well as the tiny spec of lint on my sweater, the [...]

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 [...]

Once Upon A Life-time

Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful queen; hair, black as the raven; eyes, brown as chestnuts; and skin, smooth as cream.  She was the fairest of the land, but the unfairest of heart in that her inner self-loathing manifest itself in an evil, Freudian way, and was displaced throughout the queendom onto [...]

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