Who I am…
I am a lawyer, former mother of teenagers, and a quixotic seeker after and champion of factual truth.
I make the best damn brownies you have ever had that are not regulated by the federal government.
I love movies, Broadway, and intelligent conversation.
I think in song lyrics and movie and television quotes.
I believe in the use of proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar even in text messages. I am willing to debate the use of the Oxford comma, if you know what the Oxford comma is. It also makes me very happy if people use the subjunctive mood when appropriate.
I have been told I intimidate people. I am really just a fluffy-centered teddy bear. Really.
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“He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8.
“Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living.” Mary Harris (“Mother Jones”).
“Don’t boo. Vote.” Barack Obama.
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr.
“No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.” Sir Terry Pratchett.
“Damning facts are still facts.” Steven C. Holtzman.
“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re tested, they’re not values — they’re hobbies.” Jon Stewart.
“Darkness never sustains, even though it sometimes seems it will.” Doctor Who.
“Writing is a form of mischief.” Stephen Sondheim.
“An idea is not responsible for the people who believe it.” Don Marquis.
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” Joseph Campbell.
“Truth is our strongest ally, our biggest weapon, and our best defense.” Me.
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Stephen Colbert.
“The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation.” Jonathan Larson.
“We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.
We rise and fall, and light from dying embers
Remembrances that hope and love last longer.
And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;
Cannot be killed or swept aside.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda.“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman.
“No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett.
“I believe that the God who made (among other things) light, and space, and number, and time, and the spiral curve of Fibonacci numbers, must be acknowledged to understand more than I do about why there’s pain in the world.” Teresa Neilsen Hayden.
“No, it’s not fair. You’re in the wrong universe for fair.” John Scalzi.
“Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.” Lawrence O’Donnell
“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.” Molly Ivins.
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Author Archives: Pat Greene
We won. Winning is good.
My latest campaign job is now over, having ended on July thirtieth. It was a hard fought campaign, unpleasant at times (not on our side) but we prevailed. Cindy Chavez is now the Supervisor for the Second District of Santa … Continue reading
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.
There are times when the jokes are just too easy. Except for the horrible impact on women’s reproductive rights, of course.
Aarghhhhh!!!
Dear WordPress; telling me I can paste text from Word, is great. Messing up the spacing on that text, not so great. Not letting me edit the text, abysmal.
The kids are all right. I will be too.
It is August. The school year will be starting in a couple of weeks. It will be my family’s last school year. The Red-Headed Menace will be a senior next year. I will never have to go to Back-To-School Night, … Continue reading
Loving my neighbor.
I have been thinking the past few days about the Bible. In particular, about the phrase “love your neighbor as yourself.” I have heard far too many people say this who clearly have no idea of what it means. For … Continue reading
It is a beautiful day. I have been lazy in it. I have been lazy for the past six days, since election night ended my temporary employment. I miss work. I miss the people I work for, and especially the … Continue reading
Adventures in retail.
Note to Canon: If you presume to sell the public a “combo pack” of ink and paper, do us all a favor and include ALL the cartridges the printer needs? Otherwise we have to ask obnoxious, ignorant salespeople to price … Continue reading
To whichever of my coworkers insisted that I really needed to try the “dark flight” at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View… A) you were right and B) this is your fault that I am BWI (blogging while intoxicated). On … Continue reading
The Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman verdict is in. It should not have surprised anyone, really: whatever issues Florida has in the legal treatment of whites and minorities aside, the prosecution did not do a particularly good job at disproving Zimmerman’s … Continue reading
I’m still here.
It’s been a long time (okay, two months), since I wrote with any regularity. I am hoping to change that. I have been working, which takes up some time, and I have been writing other things, which takes up more. … Continue reading
I don’t understand this.
I got a rejection letter for a job that I had really, REALLY wanted this morning. It was the standard, “although we are impressed with your credentials, your skills and experience are not compatible with our current job opening,” which … Continue reading
Storytelling.
I am working on two different yet similar writing projects currently. They present me with a dilemma. Each of these pieces require me to tell my life story. They will be for different audiences, and therefore will have different emphases, … Continue reading
Still not there yet.
I am still trying to come to grips with the Steve Landsburg piece on letting people die enough so that I can write a cogent analysis of it. Part of the issue is that I am busy doing other things, … Continue reading
*Now* you tell us.
Dear Sandra Day O’Connor: Don’t you think it is a little late to come to the conclusion that SCOTUS should never have granted cert. in Bush v. Gore? As in, twelve years which saw a major terrorist attack on American … Continue reading
Today, to go with the strained ligaments and the resulting crutches, I now have a bruise on my left wrist where a coworker nearly backed over me as I was getting my crutches out of the trunk of his car. … Continue reading
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