The Motley Moose
  • Home
  • Featured Posts
  • Editors’ Choice
  • News & Opinion
    • Biden-Harris White House
    • Motley Megaphone
    • It Takes a Village
    • Obama White House
  • Just Grazin’
    • Fiction
    • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • The Moose
    • Recent Post Feed
    • Comment Feed
    • Moose Admin Posts
    • FAQ – Getting Started
    • FAQ – How to Log In
    • FAQ – How to Compose a Post
    • About
  • My Moose
HomeIt Takes a Village

It Takes a Village

It Takes a Village is a reminder of Democratic Party values – especially the values of long time Democrats whose lives have been dedicated to helping people.

Featured Posts

Tuesday in Mooseville – Pod People 10/1/19

October 1, 2019 DoReMI 6

I’m not technology-averse, but neither I am a first-adopter. I had a flip phone long after everyone else had moved on to smartphones, and I didn’t add texting to our phone package until 2009, when […]

Editors' Choice

Tuesday in Mooseville – More Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven’t Busted 9/24/19

September 24, 2019 DoReMI 1

Last week, we looked at two of the four key Lost Cause myths identified by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta in The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause”. This week, […]

Editors' Choice

Tuesday in Mooseville – The Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven’t Busted 9/17/19

September 17, 2019 DoReMI 4

I became a history major, in part, because I had excellent, compelling history teachers throughout my childhood. It seemed to me (although I didn’t have these words until I was much older) that they approached […]

Blackness

Tuesday in Mooseville – Curiosity Piqued. Mississippi. 1890s. The Nadir. 9/10/19

September 10, 2019 DoReMI 7

On September 5th, Janesaunt posted at The Orange about Jennifer Riley Collins, who is running for AG for Mississippi (this is the diary) and the intentional structural difficulties faced by African-American candidates in MS. In […]

Featured Posts

Tuesday in Mooseville – SHEnanigans: Herstorians on Twitter 9/3/19

September 3, 2019 DoReMI 2

In what will come as shock to absolutely nobody, I’m a bit of a history buff. I was a history (and German) major in college, and I’ve always interspersed my mystery reading with history and […]

Editors' Choice

Tuesday in Mooseville – Election 2020: My/MI Junior Senator, Gary Peters 8/27/19

August 27, 2019 DoReMI 3

I’ve been saying for a few months now that my focus is not on the presidential primary race but on the U.S. Senate race in my own state. Gary Peters is one of two incumbent […]

Blackness

Tuesday in Mooseville – Cheat, Fake, Fool, and Lie 8/20/19

August 20, 2019 DoReMI 4

I wasn’t paying much attention to Twitter this past weekend, so I am grateful that Sis Dee’s Sunday post (1619. The 400th anniversary of the real founding of America.) brought the 1619 Project to my […]

Featured Posts

Tuesday in Mooseville – Six Minutes of History 8/13/19

August 13, 2019 DoReMI 1

Words are superfluous. Field of Vision – A Night at the Garden from Field of Vision on Vimeo. For those wanting more information, an interview with the filmmaker is here: A Night at the Garden. […]

Featured Posts

Tuesday in Mooseville – Make America Gracious Again 8/6/19

August 6, 2019 DoReMI 2

Over the years, I’ve bought more than a few vintage/antique etiquette and hostess books, most of which have been passed on to my daughter. I purchased them as useful references for theatre productions, but they’re […]

Editors' Choice

Thursday in Mooseville – The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 8/1/19

August 1, 2019 DoReMI 3

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to watch an episode of POV on PBS (Bisbee 17). The film, Bisbee ‘17, is part documentary and part scripted community reenactment telling the story of the […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 4 … 35 »

Featured Posts

Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

Featured Posts
September 22, 2025 3
An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]

“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

Featured Posts
August 1, 2025 3
Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]
Featured Posts

Summer Sunning!

June 20, 2025 3
Later today, we mark the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The [...]
Featured Posts

April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

May 1, 2025 3
At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]
Featured Posts

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

March 19, 2025 5
Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

Recent Posts

  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: December 7th December 6, 2025
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: November 30th November 29, 2025
  • Caribbean Matters: Honoring Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s 3 decades of service November 29, 2025
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: November 23rd November 22, 2025
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: November 16th November 15, 2025

Legacy Motley Moose

Motley Moose – July 2008 to May 2015

Motley Moose Archives by Month

Recent Comments

  • Denise Velez on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: December 7th
  • Denise Velez on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: December 7th
  • Denise Velez on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: December 7th
  • bfitzinAR on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: December 7th
  • anotherdemocrat on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: December 7th

Blog Roll

Legacy Motley Moose – Archive

Balloon Juice
Black Kos
Booman Tribune
Charlie Pierce
Ed Kilgore – NY Mag
Horizons (Smartypants)
Norbrook’s Blog
Peter Jukes
P.M. Carpenter
Stonekettle Station
Talking Points Memo (TPM)
Washington Monthly
Wonkette

Search the Moose

Moose Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Home
  • Editors’ Choice
  • Featured Posts
  • News and Opinion
  • Biden-Harris White House
  • The Obama White House
  • Motley Megaphone
  • It Takes a Village
  • Just Grazin’
  • Fiction
  • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • About the Motley Moose
  • FAQ – Getting Started at the Moose
  • My Moose

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
RSS NPR
  • McLaren's Lando Norris wins first F1 title at season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix December 7, 2025
  • A ban on feeding pigeons ruffles lots of feathers in Mumbai December 7, 2025
  • From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life December 7, 2025
  • Benin's interior minister says a coup announced earlier has been foiled December 7, 2025
  • A fire at a popular nightclub in India's Goa state kills at least 25, officials say December 7, 2025
  • At least 18 migrants die after boat sinks near Greek island of Crete December 7, 2025
  • Putin finds a warm welcome in India December 6, 2025
  • National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday December 6, 2025
RSS Guardian – US News
  • The restaurateur chronicling hardships of immigrant staff in US kitchens: ‘These are the stories that make it work’ December 7, 2025
  • Fulham v Crystal Palace: Premier League – live December 7, 2025
  • Steel, courage and a sense of humour: how Lando Norris claimed his first F1 title December 7, 2025
  • Saturday Night Live: Melissa McCarthy hosts for sixth time but laughs are sparse December 7, 2025
  • Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures December 7, 2025
  • Judge blocks Trump prosecutors from accessing key evidence in Comey case December 7, 2025
  • LA wildfire survivors rebuild holiday traditions after year of devastation December 7, 2025
  • Louisiana officials continue search for last of three escaped inmates December 7, 2025
RSS Lawyers, Guns and Money Blog
  • Grading college papers in Jesusland December 7, 2025
  • Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,030 December 7, 2025
  • Did you ever meet a woman with a death wish? December 7, 2025
  • Obergruppenfuehrer Miller orders cancellation of naturalization ceremonies December 6, 2025
  • The fact that there’s barely a president is in fact a major national crisis December 6, 2025
RSS ProPublica
  • Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5: Too Big to Fight December 7, 2025
  • Sick in a Hospital Town December 7, 2025
  • Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4: The Last Safety Net December 7, 2025
  • Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 3: Poor Grades, Poor Outcomes December 7, 2025
  • Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 2: The Making of a Monopoly December 7, 2025
RSS BBC – World News
  • New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says December 7, 2025
  • Nightclub fire in India's Goa kills 25 staff and tourists December 7, 2025
  • Benin coup attempt foiled by loyalist troops, interior minister says December 7, 2025
  • Chernobyl radiation shield 'lost safety function' after drone strike, UN watchdog says December 7, 2025
  • Katy Perry goes Instagram official with Justin Trudeau December 7, 2025
RSS BBC – Latin America
  • How could Canada, US and Mexico fare in their World Cup groups? December 6, 2025
  • Watch: Flames and thick smoke surround plane in Brazil after fire breaks out December 6, 2025
  • Watch: Flames and thick smoke surround plane in Brazil after fire breaks out December 6, 2025
  • How the White House account of September boat strike has evolved December 6, 2025
  • North American leaders take stage together for the first time December 5, 2025
  • Home
  • Editors’ Choice
  • Featured Posts
  • News and Opinion
  • Biden-Harris White House
  • The Obama White House
  • Motley Megaphone
  • It Takes a Village
  • Just Grazin’
  • Fiction
  • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • About the Motley Moose
  • FAQ – Getting Started at the Moose
  • My Moose

Copyright © 2025 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes