The Gods Are Bored

  Ugh, have you ever had to suffer through a pep rally? I don't mean a fun one, like when your NFL team is in the playoffs. I mean a hig...

  We watch way too much CNN here at "The Gods Are Bored." It gets us all riled up where election results are concerned. So tonight...

  When this blog started, I  threw the shade of a sprawling oak over the lunatic fringe better known as the evangelical Christian right. Tha...

  Hi ladies, and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" I am Anne Johnson, a happy Pagan in the Great Blue Northeast, USA. I live in a s...

  Smoking was very fashionable when I was a kid. There were t.v. commercials that promoted it, there were brands for women and brands for me...

  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...

  January 6 was not, as I scoffed last week, a bunch of drunken yahoos run amok. It was a group of terrorists with a plan who drew in a bunc...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, working at home again until January 18. Because flattening the curve has ...

  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...

  You might want to tiptoe away from this installment of "The Gods Are Bored." I'm sweating bullets myself. No one wants to se...

  Hello there! You may have Googled Malcolm Kenyatta's name and come to my page as a newcomer. If so, welcome aboard! I am a resident of...

  I know you've heard all about it. Texas has a new law that forbids abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Oh, shucks, let's dispen...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where we don't comfort the afflicted ... we afflict the comfortable. Today's comfortabl...

  I'm old. I can remember a time and place where the vast majority of women stayed home to care for their families. The women who worked...

  When in the course of human events it becomes obvious that the nation one inhabits has failed to address and respect the well-being of its...

 * 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 ...

The longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere means that now the wheel will turn, and we begin our descent into the darkness. And...

I always precede posts about Bernie Sanders by noting that I voted for Hillary Clinton in the general election, even though I live in a Blue...

I don't do Twitter. There's a reason. I can't curb my enthusiasm. Inevitably I would get in big trouble, because on Twitter the ...

Did you see where the wealthy Caucasian lieutenant governor of Texas went on Fox t.v. and said that  senior citizens would be willing to sac...