Teddy Partridge

Don't Let Another Vacation Be Ruined by.... SOCIALISM!

I am so tired of seeing a pair of pants, or a sweater or sweatshirt, or even a passably wearable belt in my closet -- only to try to put it on and realize there's a reason I haven't worn it in years. I've got lots of clothes for a smaller me. Today, they go.

In the dogs-and-cats-living-together department, there isn't much more startling than FireDogLake founder Jane Hamsher on CSPAN Thanksgiving morning asking South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning to put a hold on Ben Bernanke's re-nomination to head the Fed. Will Chris Dodd push for a GAO audit of the Federal Reserve to clear a hold?

Reading the beginning of Mary Beth Sheridan's article in the Washington Post Thanksgiving morning, one might think serious critics of Bill and Hillary Clinton have voiced serious questions about possible conflicts inherent in their roles as former President and Global Initiative Head versus Obama's Secretary of State. One would be wrong.

Ft Hood servicemembers and their families are already subject to enough right-wing posturing and conclusion-jumping without having Caribou Barbie come and trash their Commander-in-Chief with her simple-minded parables and pablum.

Chaz Bono, whose mother and father Cher and Sonny Bono made sixties television fun for so many of us, explains to Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America the transition from being Chastity Bono. This is as good an explanation I have ever seen in the mass media of the process, thinking, and feelings of this extraordinary journey -- from the viewpoint of the person.

Grounding his appeal to United States Senators in his faith, 59-year-old Arkansan Frank Wood reminds them that "Jesus healed the sick and didn't ask for money."

Shelly Dockery, a two-time cancer survivor in Little Rock, has aged-out of her family's health plan. Despite a $20,000 bill from her cancer recurrence, her family still helps her with her cancer screenings because she's too old to be on their policy and can't get her own insurance.

Here you can see the horrible choices facing someone who came for the Little Rock health fair: do I see a doctor about the Stage-Three cancer diagnosis I got seven years ago that bankrupted me, or do I try to see a dentist about the immediate and agonizing pain from this abscessed tooth?

Cindy Howell drove five hours from her Dallas home to see a doctor at the Little Rock health fair today. She has $30,000 of credit card debt from her last five years of Texas Risk Pool premiums, but she can't get mammograms or preventive care under her plan. She pays $126 for one asthma medication but she skips doses to make it last longer.