Froth Slosh B'Gosh

Decisions, decisions.

Tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Should I wear my swashbuckler gear to work tomorrow? Since I work at a public school, I'm concerned that as an ordained Pastafarian cleric, I might violate the separation of church and state? Or should I just go as a purely secular pirate?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROTHETTE!!

Today she is five, and ready for kindergarten!

Here Is A Simple Solution For You

If you object to drag queens reading stories to your children, don't take them to drag queen story time.  That's a much better way to handle your bigotry, as opposed to issuing threats. 

Ruminating....

Pam Iovino defeats D. Raja in a special election for a South Hills State Senate seat. The district was gerrymandered by Republicans in 2010 to maximize a Republican's chances to win, and has historically been an "R" seat. And while I commend Allegheny County Republicans for nominating an immigrant and a person of color for seat, I have to wonder if the national Republican Party's racism and xenophobia cost Raja the election? Did many Republican or Republican leaning voters not turn out because they weren't willing to vote for an immigrant, or an Indian?

Democrats Flip State Senate Seat

Pam Iovino wins special election!

Just a couple more seats to flip and the state Senate turns blue!

Goodbye, Post Gazette

So the P-G called, and asked if they could help with renewing my subscription. I told them I wasn't renewing. She asked if price was the problem, and I said, no, its the direction the paper's taken over the past two years. 1: The cowardly decision to not endorse someone for president. 2: The racist MLK day editorial. 3: The batshit insane endorsement of Rick Saccone over Conor Lamb. It wasn't that the paper endorsed Saccone, it was the rational; He's an experienced state rep (who hasn't accomplished anything of note in Harrisburg over a decade aside from getting the state sued on state/church separation issues) and that Lamb will vote to impeach Trump (a "fact" not in evidence). The last straw was firing Bob Rogers and replacing him with an unfunny hack who regularly produces misogynist cartoons. She protested, "I'm just a billing clerk, I can give you the comments line." I said, No, you're a representative of the paper who called and inquired about why I wasn't renewing and I told you why. I've also been contacting your advertisers, so they know why your circulation is dropping. Now you have something to tell your supervisor when he inquires about success rates in re-upping subscribers.

I've subscribed to that paper for 30 years.  No more.

 

Rosfeld Not Guilty

I've avoided commenting on this case, because I wanted to get all the facts before coming to a conclusion. While I found the initial reporting on this tragedy troubling, I was also interested on why the prosecution didn't call a use of force expert to testify, and why they didn't call the driver of the car to testify. I found Rosfeld's testimony compelling, especially his describing that he thought he saw an object in Rose's hand. The law states that you must view the facts of the case based on what a reasonable police officer would conclude, and forced to make a split-second decision based on the facts at hand. Did Rose deserve to die? No. But is Rosfeld guilty of premeditated murder? Also, no, and so says not me, but a jury of his peers.

Steelerbation

So our local jock sniffers keep complaining about talking about Antonio Brown, yet they continue to talk about Antonio Brown.

GO VOTE!

So let me tell you about my little town. We have a population of just under 2,500 people. In the 2016 election, 1,748 were registered to vote, and 1,291 did so, an excellent turnout of over 70%! Today I voted just before 4:00pm, well before the after work crowd shows up, and nearly 700 had already voted, and one gentleman was processing a big pile of absentee votes. So it looks like in an off-year election, we're going to have about the same turnout as in a presidential year.

And yes, we were Blue in 2016.

SNOW DAY!

Sure, its a Saturday, and the kiddos are down in Virginia visiting their grandmother, but this is our first significant snowfall of the season (we got a light snow on Christmas) so I'm excited!  I don't think I could live someplace that didn't have four distinct seasons.