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Everywhere is Charlottesville: Which Lane Will You Pick?
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, featured, Politics, AAU Basketball, Charlottesville, Crazy Sports Parents, Heather Heyer, Kids sports, Nazis, Racism, Speaking Up, Standing Up, Trump, White Privilege, White Supremacists, 4So how are you doing after last week? Let’s see, we had the threat of nuclear war, tiki-torch-wielding Nazis...
Our Plan Worked: My Meeting With Peter Roskam
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, featured, Politics, 6th Congressional District of Illinois, Fake It Till You Make It, Glen Ellyn Illinois, IL06, Peter Roskam, THere's No Place Like Home, Wizard of Oz, 5Last week, we got our Daylight Savings-tired selves out of bed super early, braved the snow and cold weather...
Facebook Friend Request: Accept or Deny?
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Chicago, Politics, Cabin Fever, Facebook, February, Friend Request, Matinees, Old Boyfriends, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Winter Blues, 0February sucks. February in Chicago sucks even more. February in Chicago under a newly installed regime that has you...
Time To Get Off Our TrumpButts
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Politics, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing, Donald Trump, Muslim Ban, Pope Francis, Refugee Ban, Refugee Crisis, Steve Bannon, 1Trump’s first week in the Oval Office was purposefully provocative, attention-seeking, destructive, sloppy and chaotic. And he took us...
How Jimmy Carter Helped Soothe My Election Blues
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Politics, 2016 Presidential election, Dexter, Donald Trump, Girls Weekend, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter's Sunday School, Plains Georgia, True Crime Novels, 0I don’t have much to say about this election. Well, that’s not true exactly. I have so much to...
Who’s Your Donald?
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Politics, 2016 Presidential election, discrimination, Donald, Hillary Clinton, Kelly Oxford, Leah McElrath, Madam President, presidential debates, sexism, Trump campaign, 0All women know someone like Donald Trump. We’ve encountered him on the playground, where he bullied us; we went...
How Phyllis Schlafly Turned Me Into A Radical Feminist Lesbian Over Dinner
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Politics, ERA, LGBTQ, Phyllis Schlafly, Sarah Weddington, 0Hearing the news that Phyllis Schlafly has passed away at the age of 92 brings up a bizarre memory...
Hey you Fiscal Conservatives: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Lynn LaPlante Allaway, , Politics, Donald Drumpf, Drumpf, Fiscal Conservatives, George Michael, John Oliver, 0With Donald Drumpf looking like he’ll nab the Republican Presidential Nomination, I’d like to address this essay to the...
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