by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 18, 2018 | General
I met Victor Milán appropriately enough in a bookstore when he was nineteen. He had just returned from hitchhiking around Europe and I was working at the bookstore earning some money before I started law school that fall. Six feet two inches tall, bright blue eyes and golden hair, he definitely caught my attention. We fell to talking and he told me he had spent time Catalonia looking for his ancestors and he wanted to write a book that drew on that rich history. Fast forward to July of 2015...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 31, 2018 | General
I wanted to let folks know that there are going to be able to find Wild Cards showing up in a lot more places and our web folks have some fun things planned. You can follow all the action here: https://www.facebook.com/WildCardsWorld/ http://www.instagram.com/wildcardsworld Tweets by wildcardsseries https://plus.google.com/114503966468284848815 Also don’t forget our website for all things Wild Cards which can be found here:...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 12, 2018 | General
@LivingBlueinRed: “White rural America was cool with democracy until it was faced with the possibility of becoming a minority” @FrankConniff: “I don’t get it. Why would Trump prefer immigrants from Norway over immigrants from Haiti and African countries? What’s the one factor that makes Norwegians different? Am I missing something?” This is one of those days where I wonder “is this it? Is this the bridge too far that will finally make Republican lawmakers place...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 11, 2017 | General
Here are my thoughts on the probable outcome of tomorrow’s special election in Alabama. Roy Moore is probably going to win. I’d like to hope it will be a squeaker, but I fear that whatever the margin it will be a win for the sexual predator. And inevitably Democrats and liberals and independents and progressives are going to get depressed. Don’t. The fact we will have come close to sending a Democrat to Congress from a fire engine red state is pretty remarkable. Remember that...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 7, 2017 | General
Let me repeat that — No good deed goes unpunished. Sadly that may come to pass as one major political party becomes ever more unmoored from basic decency and ethics and determined to place the retention of power over the retention and protection of our Constitution, our institutions, and our very democracy. Meanwhile the other tries to maintain standards, to “Go high” in the words of our previous First Lady and is rewarded for this by seeing itself losing the ability to protect those...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 26, 2017 | General
I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I’m worried we are now entering the Sturmabteilung (brownshirt) phase of the Trump presidency. There were t shirts worn and sold at Trump rallies that said — Rope, Tree, Journalist, Some Assembly Required. And now we have what occurred in Montana. A candidate for congress assaulted a journalist for merely asking a question. That was appalling but even more appalling and worrisome is the fact that some on the right are trying...
