Through the miracle of modern big time journalism, you guys rarely know when I travel.  There’s a couple of reasons that I don’t tell you.

First is, it ain’t none of your bidness.

Second is that Marsha stays at my house to take care of Truman when I travel.  I need to tell you that Marsha is a retired parole officer and meaner than eight acres of snakes.   Marsha thinks gun control means being able to hit your target.  When the National Guard Armory needs more firepower, they send a tank by Marsha’s house.  You know that whole thing where the military hollers, “Identify yourself!” before they shoot?  Marsha was never in the military so you won’t need your ID if you scare her, unless, of course, you want your family to be able to identify the body.  The mess is hell to clean up and I don’t like coming home from a trip with a big ole mess awaiting me.   Hell, Marsha shot one of her husbands once and he was a skinny fella so she don’t need a big target.

Anyway, that’s why I generally don’t tell you I’m outta town.

But, I’m making an exception because you need to know I’m in North Carolina.  North Carolina has their primary on May 8th and, as I told you, they are trying to outlaw human rights.

I was at the Beaufort County Democrat Democratic Party Headquarters today.  This is the front window.

If you click enlarge, you will see a bumper sticker that Democrats are sporting all over North Carolina.  They are actively working against Amendment One, which bans gay marriage.

Now, I would like to remind Texas Democrats that North Carolina is BLUE.  They flipped for the first time since Jimmy Carter ran.  They supported President Barack Obama.  And the reason for that just might be that they decided to stand for something other than election.

Texas Democrats on the State Executive Committee overwhelmingly voted NOT to put marriage rights on the Democratic primary ballot.  That makes me so ashamed.  It also makes me mad.  Democrats need to stand up for minorities.  We need to lift up the underdogs.

I’m helping the fight in North Carolina. I predict North Carolina Democrats will carry this state again.  Polls show Obama 5 points ahead here.

So, there three important things here:  (1) don’t mess with Marsha, (2) don’t expect a lot of posts from me this week and those you do see will have lots of typos because I’m on a laptop I’m not used to, and (3) stand for something, dammit.

Filed by – Susan, foreign correspondent for The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.