I went back to the bougainvillea fence at the Spanish Village where I got a picture several months ago. I went to see if the dry, gray vines are bursting out of winter into spring. Yep! They are.

Now... on to another subject... and then I'm going to RUSH away from the incident that has sucked far too much oxygen out of radio and television air time... But for now, one last blast:

Unfortunately in the political climate of 2012 women will continue to be targets... and unfortunately, the men who target women often have on their side a host of women indoctrinated by the folks who catechized them to believe that the natural order of things includes subjugation of females to males.

In spite of clear evidence that women do most of the practical work of nurturing and strengthening the institutions that represent any contemporary culture in any age and ultimately move the culture along from one generation to the next, males continue to insist that everything is held together because of whatever it is that men do. If a male is perceived to be avoiding his role as lord and master in whatever is considered his rightful domain, he is said to be effeminate, a sissy, a woman, or (the ultimate put-down) a weak sister. The person who “wears the britches,” is the person in charge, the one with ultimate, final authority; so when a woman presumes to be the authority, she is said to “wear the britches.”

We have a long way to go in our country to get to a time when men like Rush Limbaugh are drummed off their soap boxes early in their “careers.” It should be an embarrassment to every conservative woman and man in America that they supported his outrageous radio misogyny to the tune of about $50 million dollars a year for as long as they have done. I expect that he will go right back to doing what he has done for years, and sadly most of the people who listened and encouraged and paid him will continue to celebrate his outrage. The reason progressive Americans can’t be held accountable for his nonsense is that they don’t listen to him.