Posted on July 11, 2021 by Leona in Academy Awards, apologies, award shows, celebrities, Chuck Schumer, Colin Kaepernick, culture, entitlements, gender-neutral pronouns, government spending, government waste, Grammy Awards, Hollywood, Judge Judy, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, political correctness, politics, racism, tattoos, transgender, welfare
Masks. Not Halloween masks but these stupid schmatas we’ve been forced to wear over the past year and half when anyone with any knowledge of microbiology or virology knows that if the virus has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)], it can very easily pass through a mask […]
Posted on June 16, 2021 by Leona in baby boomers, culture, Donald Trump, education, mainstream media, media, political correctness, teachers' unions
The two areas of American life that I’ve seen the most changes from the 1950s to the present are in education and the media. We all started school in Kindergarten. There was no pre-school in the 50s, at least where I grew up in Brooklyn. Now, kids are expected to have a pre-school experience before […]
Posted on June 6, 2021 by Leona in baby boomers, civility, culture, political correctness, politics, secular progressives, society
Yes, many things have changed since I was born in 1951. Some changes are good. Some changes are definitely not so good. Others, well, are just interesting. Back in the ‘50s, my husband’s parents couldn’t buy a house in Monterey Park, a neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles. His father was Native American and his […]
Posted on August 9, 2019 by Leona in culture, LGBTQ, Mario Lopez, political correctness
Every day someone is being attacked by the PC police. The mantras from these Far Left loons are either “you’re a racist,” “you’re a homophobe,” “you’re a misogynist” and it goes on and on. The majority of people today are afraid to express any innocuous opinion they may have because they’re afraid of offending someone. […]
Posted on August 4, 2019 by Leona in political correctness, politics, San Francisco, Seattle
When my husband and I bought, what was to be, our retirement home on Bainbridge Island, Seattle was a pretty nice city. For many years before we actually made the permanent move from Los Angeles, we’d visit a few times a year and always ferried over to Seattle to spend the day walking around and […]
Posted on July 20, 2019 by Leona in 31 genders - NYC, culture, gender, inclusive language, political correctness
I think it all began with the word “mankind.” Someone woke up one day in the 80’s and thought the English language needed some tweaking. Somehow the use of the word “man” in “mankind” was considered exclusive and needed to be more gender-neutral like “humankind.” I’ve always found the use of the word “humankind” to […]
Posted on November 11, 2016 by Leona in Donald Trump, education, election day 2016, political correctness, politics
So, less than twenty-four hours after the election was called in Donald Trump’s favor, and after speeches by President-Elect Trump, Hillary Clinton and President Obama asking the country to unite, college students took to their campuses to whine about the outcome. The Wall Street Journal’s headline reads: “Colleges Try to Comfort Students Upset by Trump […]
Posted on August 7, 2016 by Leona in 31 genders - NYC, culture, gender, political correctness, transgender
I like to keep things simple. There was a time, in the not too distant past, when girls were girls, boys were boys. Girls had girl parts and boys had boy parts. They grew up and women continued to have vaginas and men continued to have penises. There were males and there were females. Period. […]
Posted on August 1, 2015 by Leona in Bias-Free Language Guide, culture, political correctness
I often wonder what type of person wakes up in the morning wondering, “What will offend me today?” Well, I found out this week. The Bias-Free Language Guide was written and edited by Sylvia Foster, Szu-Hui Lee, Joelle Ruby Ryan, Sean Moundas and the Women’s Commission members in the 1990s who drafted the “Guide to […]
Posted on September 20, 2014 by Leona in immigration, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, political correctness, protesters, U.S. Flag
The uber-liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed with a lower district court and three appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts on Cinco de Mayo. The Ninth Circuit denied an en banc hearing on the matter and ordered […]