by Heather Hastie | Dec 22, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
I’m getting sick of the right-wing people who are constantly telling us via tweets, news conferences, editorials, and more, that the question of the sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump was answered by “the people” in the 2016 election....
by Heather Hastie | Dec 19, 2017 | Tweets, USA
I could have just made up a special Tweets section for this story, but it’s so funny I couldn’t resist writing about it. (Of course, it wasn’t very funny for those who were part of it, and I don’t want to diminish the distress I’m sure...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 16, 2017 | Tweets, USA
I was Skyping with a friend in the US yesterday, and somehow we got onto the topic of people who live on the streets. He made the comment that you almost never see them in New Zealand. They are there of course. One of our biggest problems is a shortage of housing,...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 15, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
It’s been almost a week since I did a tweets post, so you may have been wondering where I was. Mostly, I’ve been out of town at medical appointments. For obvious reasons, I don’t announce when I’m leaving town on the internet ahead of time!...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 3, 2017 | US Politics
The big news all over the world continues to be that US President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI. He has pleaded guilty to one count, although the court documents detail evidence of other lies. This is...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 27, 2017 | Tweets, USA, Women
Today’s homily was inspired by a tweet sent to me by Ann German. (See Human Rights Tweets below.) It led me to an article in Aeon called ‘How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women’. The authors did a statistical analysis of how often...