by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 3, 2015 | General
I’ve been pondering and honestly trying to understand the rightwing freak out over the marriage equality ruling. What is it that is so alarming, unnatural, perverse about two people who love each other being married? They’re always talking about god’s law as revealed in nature — well there are gay animals too so obviously if their god is omniscient then gay critters and people are all in the plan, right? Then I remembered a conversation I had a few years back with my...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 2, 2015 | General
One month ago my workhorse of a vehicle, my Mercedes diesel GL SUV up and died in the middle of Yale Blvd. down in Albuquerque. I had just dropped off friends at the airport (thank heaven it didn’t happen on I25 or during my drive back from L.A. with my cats on board.) I called Triple A and got towed to the Mercedes dealership. The provided me with a loaner and I headed home thinking this would be simple. It was anything but. For three weeks the techs were baffled. They kept hooking...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 19, 2015 | General
Forgive me. I try to keep things fun and talk mostly about writing or horses or games or cool science stuff, but what happened at the Mother Emanuel Church in South Carolina has left me shaken. The killings themselves are a sadly familiar story. Black churches have been targeted before. In 1963 four little girls were killed when a black church was bombed. As Larry Wilmore pointed out Larry Wilmore The Nightly Show nobody back then tried to claim this was about religious liberty, or that the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 18, 2015 | General
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the horrific shooting in South Carolina. As most of you know I’m not religious, but there is something particularly repugnant about a killer entering a church or a mosque or a temple to kill peaceful worshipers. And suggestions on Fox news that pastors/priests/ imams ought to be armed just shows how mad this entire discussion of guns and their place in our society has become. Here is a portion of the President’s remarks. “At some...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 11, 2015 | General
My technology is training me into a conditioned response. I downloaded this pedometer app for my IPhone, and now that I’m home in NM where it is beautiful and I’m not breathing exhaust when I go outside I have been taking a lot of long, brisk walks. Since I don’t have a gym here I’m using free weights at home and these walks as a way to stay in shape. I generally average around 8500 steps each day or about four miles. But yesterday I hit 10,000 steps in one day and...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 7, 2015 | General
Okay, the stubble thing is starting to bug me. Oliver Queen in Arrow, Mr. Reese in Person of Interest, Grant Ward and all the other pretty boys in Agents of SHIELD. I also notice that elegant villains get to shave — Loki, Harrison Wells in The Flash, Hannibal in Hannibal. Most of the leaders of Hydra. Scruffy seems to indicate you’re a low rent villain, a drug dealer or a terrorist. Then there’s a class of good guys who get to shave. Mr Finch in Person of Interest, Phil...
