The Gods Are Bored

Hello, hello, and welcome to another installation of "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, hardy volunteer at Netroots Natio...

A couple of weeks ago, I got an invitation to an AFL-CIO caucus meeting at a thing called Netroots Nation. I suppose the AFL-CIO's algor...

Let me see if I can hit the high points. We have people at our border, caged in conditions we reserve for mass production of chickens. W...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," summer vacation issue! Yes, for the first time in four years, I am taking the summer off, like th...

All Hail, and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," on this hot-and-humid summer morning! My name is Anne Johnson, your host with a boa...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," strolling through the years with gratitude for (almost) all of them! I'm Anne Johnson, a woma...

Howdy and welcome to “The Gods Are Bored!” Do you want two tickets to paradise? Well then, we have to ask, Which paradise do you want to b...

What can I say? It was a sunny day, and I had a few hours to spare while my daughter The Heir and her s.o. went canoeing. That's how I f...

Hard on the heels of Walt Whitman's birthday comes that of my daughter The Heir. This is a milestone for her as well, but she doesn'...

Two hundred years ago today, a son was born to a struggling carpenter living on Long Island. The oldest child in a large family, he was sent...

Hello and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," your highway to hilarity in a world of woe! I'm Anne Johnson, denizen of this nutho...

So I was driving to work one pre-dawn morning, and I heard an advertisement on the radio for a Who concert at Citizens Bank Park in Philly. ...

Now there's  an innovative blog post title, don't you think??? I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that so many s...

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

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Did you see that the U.S., Russia, and China are squabbling over the new shipping lanes opened up...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," and today just call me Miss Bliss! Here I have just returned from one swell getaway, and I'm ...

Did you know the Internet calls snakes "nope ropes?" I love that. I wish I had thought of it. Springtime is a busy season for no...

For a long time I have talked the talk. But last week I walked the walk. I, Anne Johnson, flew in a plane to Salt Lake City to meet a Sacred...

I am about to make a pact with an Andean condor who lives in an aviary. He was hatched in the spring of 1959 and is celebrating a 60th bir...

The new luxury homes across the street are completed, upgraded, and occupied. Behind Door Number One is a family of four: parents and chil...