The Gods Are Bored

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," end of the Supreme Court calendar edition. I am one very pissed off Anne Johnson today. In this...

  If anything about 2022 stands out to me, it's the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, both...

  Whew! I almost let the charter for the Independent Republic of Johnsonia expire, but hooray! I didn't! My little plot of land is still...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," public school teachers! Perhaps you have noticed that things have changed overnight in the ol...

  I'm thinking this morning of Town Creek. It begins in Pennsylvania near the tiny town of Rainsburg and flows from north to south 36 mi...

  I'll keep this one brief, since the decision isn't published yet. But ... Our new Spanish Inquisition  Supreme Court conservative ...

  There was no particular controversy back in 1973 when women were guaranteed the right to bodily autonomy in the USA. Then as now, the majo...

  The Supreme Court has become completely political. I have no faith in it at all. I didn't have any faith even before the most recent a...

 * 5:25 p.m. September 18, 2020 Had chili for supper. It was good. (Satisfaction) *6:25 p.m. Splayed into recliner, too tired to join Mr. J ...

Hello and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where the first whiff of late summer is (briefly) in the air! It's a beautiful day ...

Have you noticed a new level of respect for religion in this country? I have! The only problem is which religion  is getting the respect. ...

In my favorite movie, Matewan,  by John Sayles, striking miners confront union organizer Joe Kinnehan about being a conscientious objector d...

Good day, and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" This is the site where we designate deities to duties that need to be done. Yes, re...

I've been following the Supreme Court and its decisions closely for years. This year, back in June, the court decided (5-4) to end a 40-...

I never liked Bill Cosby, even before women started bringing accusations against him. There was something unbearably proper about the man, p...

I started blogging in 2005 because I opened the morning newspaper and read that some woman got her dog's vet bills paid by her blog fans...