Let's have a nice-time awesomesauce round of applause for U.S. Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, who at 92 is our oldest Park Ranger. Why are we writing about her? Some guy tweeted about her. And she was beautiful. Then we read her Wiki page, and said holy shit, awesome park ranger lady! And then we decided that would make a better post than Obama holocausting us (AGAIN) by making us get health care. Born in Detroit, grew up in New Orleans until a hurricane destroyed her family's business in 1927, and then they moved to Oakland, California. Worked at a segregated union auxiliary during WWII, and ran a Berkeley record store after the war -- it's still in business. Wrote civil rights and peace songs during the '60s, worked for a couple of state assemblywomen, and helped develop the park where she now works as a tour guide and interpreter,
The top post is <i>really good.</i>
I want her to be my grandmother.
Thanks for the Happy Nice Time, Dok. Would she consider adopting this entire vile, ugly snark mob?
&quot;Meh - she&#039;s non-essential personnel.&quot; -Republican teabaggers
Take that, Bundy. And get your cows off the nation&#039;s lawn.
Hard as I try, I will never be as grown-up as Betty Soskin.
<i>Also? We&rsquo;ll take one Betty Reid Soskin over a bushel of tea partiers, thank you.</i>
a bushel of tea partiers?? TEA PARTIERS?!?!?! jesus i&#039;d take this chick over the entire democratic establishment.
baggers aren&#039;t worth the electronic bytes it takes to type &#039;baggers&#039;.
That&#039;s the problem with free speech: you get what you pay for.
I was thinking president.