September | 2013 | Beth Byrnes

POVerty and the shadowy TPP

Posted on September 28, 2013 6 Comments

I have been reflecting on the American way of life recently. All the tumult over the Affordable Care Act has dredged up a great deal of emotion, mostly fear, and of course as I have said repeatedly in past posts here, stoked by international as well as national corporate interests. There are corporations, backed by […]

Green is good

Posted on September 27, 2013 5 Comments

Years back I lived abroad for one summer. While I was there, with quite a few machinations and pulling of strings, I was able to rent an apartment all on my own (I was 19). As a foreigner, the number one feature when choosing an apartment was whether it already had a phone. This was […]

Ted McCarthy … beloved by?

Posted on September 26, 2013 5 Comments

I awoke Wednesday to the headlines that this benighted “Senator” spent the previous 21 hours raving against affordable healthcare to prevent the rescue of poor and hardworking Americans who don’t have it right now. He is a Joe McCarthy look-alike, think-alike, and hate-alike. An arrogant phony who only the most limited among us cannot see […]

Perfect pies

Posted on September 25, 2013 4 Comments

In the run-up to the holidays I can happily look forward to a few things. One is knitting (and I will share about that this autumn) and the other is baking. I make the usual things that people who are addicted to carbs like, but pies above all. It is funny too because, as much […]

We the sheeple …

Posted on September 24, 2013 9 Comments

Over the weekend, watching all my usual news shows, I was bombarded by talk of the looming twin crises of government funding and debt ceiling showdowns. The media, in their usual, ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ fashion, were stirring the cauldron again, instilling a growing sense of dread that something terrible is about to happen, […]