"Home" by Fatoukine, a 6 year old girl in Senegal

A six year old in Senegal named Fatoukine drew the picture above. I love how orderly and detailed her depiction of “home” is. The trees are in full bloom; the buildings all have open windows and doors; and even the sun is smiling. The very little I know about art therapy tells me that the girl who drew this is secure and happy and isn’t keeping a lot of secrets. I get to know Fatoukine through Plan International, which I found through the Half the Sky Movement (aint the internet grand?)

In other news, Hillaryis44 continues her scorched earth policy against the obama administration and it is a thing of beauty.

Between the botched terrorism response in Times Square and the botched oil spill response in the Gulf, this administration should be renamed the OBOTched Regime. And yes, I DO think the OBOTS have a lot to answer for in all this. They, so much more than the Tea Partiers, are to blame for poisoning the discourse and ruining the unity in the Democratic Party. The president himself, who’s always been the Commander in Chief of the OBOTS, referred to voters who oppose him in the Tea Party as Teabaggers. This is nothing new to us, but for newcomers to obama’s tactics, it is shocking.

Remember the primaries? Remember THIS? And THIS?

This is nothing new for obama. He routinely uses bigotry, sexism, and homophobia to mock and undermine his opponents. Even when his so-called “opponents” are anonymous American citizens. A quick recall comes up with this list of terms of endearment obama has used, in public, to describe regular, every day Americans:

• Bitter, bigoted, and stupidly religious
• Sweeties
• Anti-immigrant (That’s what he called Pennsylvanians when he was in Marin County California raising over $3 million dollars from rich Californians. Incidentally, or not, the percentage of immigrants in Marin County is 10 points lower than the California average. Are the rich of Marin County “anti-immigrant”?I don’t know. But I do know they cling to their gated seaside estates like lard on lemon cake.)
• Stupid
• Typical white people
• Teabaggers. And now, of course, regular American voters who align with the Tea Party movement are the kinds of people who, either by choice or against their will, have testicles placed in their mouths by men straddling over them.

American voters are bitter, bigoted, hyper-religious, anti-immigrant, stupid, typical white people who deserve to be teabagged. That’s how the current president of the United States talks about VOTERS!

Now wonder he and the fractured party he limped in on are going down. And, no, I don’t mean that in a hillbuzz sort of way.

Speaking of which and getting back to the original point of this post, where do you feel at home? Where on the internet? Where in real life? Personally, I like to hang out, as you know, at Uppity’s, Puma Eyes, Twisty’s, CNN’s News Pulse, the NYT, Boston.com, and Calculated Risk. Also Facebook.

In real life, I like my backyard. What about you?