Thermal Thursday: Open Community Thread
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View ArticleThermal Thursday: Medical Scheduling Misery
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View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 05/28/23-06/03/23: Happy LGBTQ Pride Month!
LGBTQ Pride Month has begun and the stakes seem higher than ever. Here is a brief history, www.history.com/… Since it was called Gay Pride Month, the name has changed to be more inclusive, with some...
View ArticleThermal Thursday: My Crappy Day
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View ArticleThermal Thursday: Fare Well, My Online Friends
I don’t usually start at the beginning on #ThermalThursday, but just to be clear for any startled rollovers: I have lost two good online friends this past week, Ekaterin and CameronProf. That’s what...
View ArticleThermal Thursday: Does It Matter If We Think The Christian God Is Cruel?
Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour! Thermal on Thursdays for the warmth of a good cup of coffee or your preferred beverage, as well as the warmth of a more progressive religion and community. And...
View ArticleThermal Thursday: A New Catchphrase
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View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 6/25-7/1/23: Women in Climate
As I look out the window at the haze from Canada’s worst wildfire season in decades, despite our location in upstate NY being about 500 miles away from the nearest flames, I think “surely there are...
View ArticleThermal Thursday: Seven New Deadly Sins and Calls to Action
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View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 7/9-15/23: Good News from Suburbia
Our local village had an election in June for mayor and council. And behold, the decades-long red government (with many contests often having gone uncontested) flipped unanimously to blue (that is, all...
View ArticleThermal Thursday: Project Liberty
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View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 8/20-26/23: Another Caretaker Edition
Welp, as usual caretaking duties for the elderly are a lot more strenuous than many (men!) like to admit, so I am running way late. Please use this space to chat, and I will add items to the diary...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 9/24-30/23: Another Caregiver Edition
Since caregivers are so overwhelmingly women, I find this an appropriate opening topic for WOW. And since I care about climate, I have recently been wondering about adult diapers (Mom is bed-bound, so...
View ArticleCombating the Climate Crisis, One Issue at a Time: Your Halloween Pumpkin
As I’ve been repeating for a while, we do have many climate crisis solutions and one of the BIG ones is to stop wasting food! Stopping food waste would make a big improvement in the climate crisis,...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 12/10-16/23: Strength Edition
Lately I have read report after report on Daily Kos about gerrymandering and Democratic politicians retiring because their old districts are now bright red, they can no longer win, so they are moving...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 12/31/2023-1/6/2024 - Open Thread
Welp, it’s been a strange week, so we have no author tonight. Please consider this an Open Thread. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some coffee and chat, let us know what’s going on in your world, and...
View ArticleReligious Freedom Day: Freedom OF and FROM Religion: With POLL!
Happy Religious Freedom Day! What, didn’t know? Yep, every January 16 is RFD. From President Biden’s Proclamation (emphasis mine): The constitutional right to practice our faiths peacefully and...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 1/14-20/2024: Positives and Negatives: With a...
I inadvertently fell asleep on the couch before writing my pithy opening tonight! So let’s just start with a smart, well-prepared, emotionally mature young girl: Indiana girl, 10, given award for...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women, 2/11-17/2024: Awards Edition: With a Poll!
In the spirit of the great WOW2 diaries, I am searching for notably accomplished women who you may have never heard of. Women are doing new great things every day! Checking the news for awards brought...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: Open Thread 03/03/24-03/09/24
Published yesterday, I found this interesting: From Psychology Today (author has a Ph.D in cognitive psychology): Debunking the Myth of the Man-Hating Feminist: How feminist women have been seriously...
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