My Spikey Little Heart

About: Janet L. Boyd

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Janet L. Boyd is a writer living in Louisville, Kentucky, who is best known for "Don't Get Me Started," a column she wrote for LEO, or the Louisville Eccentric Observer. DGMS could be described as "middle-aged feminist with sassy friend casts jaundiced eye on politics and culture." She wisely stopped writing DGMS before people stopped liking it and then collected all the columns into a book called "Don't Get Me Started: The LEO Years."

Posts by Janet L. Boyd:

• March 5, 2011 After passing through the security checkpoint, with its barrel marked “Deposit weapons here,” I traveled a long tree-lined driveway on former farm land to bring the gifts of grammar and Shakespeare to men who were more familiar with street talk and hip hop than with the Bard of Avon.

• January 30, 2011 That’s just the short list of what Rand Paul wants to chuck out the window. Do you really want the antichrist to get his hands on the Constitution? I don’t.

• January 16, 2011 But it’s been worrying me, in the aftermath of last week’s slaughter in Tucson, that even though I believe myself to be a peaceful person, I idolize gun-toting, vengeance-seeking women who employ violence to exact justice. What does that say about me?

• December 21, 2010 It’s easy to think we support environmentalism, until it messes with our personal lives. … So I just go on, like many others do, waiting for someone else to save the world.

• November 22, 2010 Officer Sweet saw a carful of squishy bodies, graying hair, crochet supplies, and junk food. If we had been really visible to him, he might have noticed a few more interesting things.

• November 6, 2010 Kentucky’s brand new freshman senator, Rand Paul, made a to-do list for his first day on Capitol Hill. He put it on his desk, where the winds of change blew it straight into my hands.

• October 24, 2010 What exactly is their problem with Nancy Pelosi? Could it be that they resent the House being led by a (gasp!) woman who is really, really good at her job? Am I accusing them of (bigger gasp!) sexism? Yes, I am.

• October 11, 2010 How could I make such a mistake? I have no idea. But given my own 40 years of believing a lie, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a growing number of Americans believe – despite all the evidence to the contrary – that President Obama is a Muslim or that he was born outside the United States.

• September 25, 2010 Why am I writing about a frivolous subject like shoes? I tried to write about some high-minded, political topic today. Really, I did. But then I opened the newspaper and saw that kitten heels have returned as the “new” fall fashion. …

• September 11, 2010 Christians and Americans have been burning things since the days of their beginning…what makes Terry Jones different?

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