Summer's View

  A few days ago I read an article that had been posted on the Women's March Facebook page.  It had been shared by the administrator(s) of that page from www.Bustle.com, "8 Issues To Support If You Call Yourself A  Feminist,"  by Noor Al-Sibai. From that article: "One of the biggest wake-up calls in the 2016 elections took place around the issue of class — while Bernie Sanders deftly spoke to the working classes, Hillary Clinton failed to do so , and that failure to appeal to members of the lower American classes likely contributed to her loss." I have lost count of the many opinion pieces that have been written about why Hillary Clinton lost the election.  Several of which believe that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren's critique of the Clinton campaign regarding Hillary's "not speaking to the working class" is  wrong.  So we have yet another opinion from a self-described feminist who in three sentences tells us that Bernie is good ...

Dear Founding Board Member: I knew from my very first board meeting that everyone walked on egg shells around you.  And when you spoke it was not necessarily with authority, but with an unkind smug attitude.  I think the word I'm looking for is strident.  You could be making the most inane statement, but somehow it would sound challenging and strident.   It was only after joining the board that I received comments from members of the community that you were one hell of a bitch.  Even other board members conceded that you were impossible to work with, but I just kept going like the Energizer bunny.  For six years, I kept "gunny sacking" all your pettiness; Silas Marner pecuniary, hatefulness and stonewalling of any new, modern ideas.  Keep in mind that it wasn't just you that was the problem.  You had your accomplices:  the passive-aggressive board members who talked incessantly about you behind your back, but left it to me to confront ...