There’s this little nagging voice in my brain that likes to remind me I’m completely unqualified to discuss virtually everything in any kind of public forum and that I shouldn’t–nay can’t–keep running this blog because my uninformed opinions don’t matter.
But then, I’ll get a personal message from Al Gore informing me he’s endorsing Barry Obama [...]
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Picture of Kucinich from when he was Mayor of Cleveland ( circa 1978). Hey there, Tiger!
Dennis Kucinich, I own nothing in this cruel world but a smelly cat with a shitty attitude, a savings account with a negative balance and a taut young body, but you are surely welcome to all three for being [...]
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Tags: Dennis Kucinich·George W. Bush·House Judiciary Committee·House of Representatives·Hurricane Katrina·Impeachment·Iraq War·John Boehner·Nancy Pelosi·Posse Comitatus Act·Robert Wexler
“Because of you, tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America.”
–Barack Obama, 6/3/08, St. Paul, Minnesota
Barry has locked up more than the 2,118 delegates needed for nomination at the Democratic convention in August.
Some political analysts (Sean Penn among them) say [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama·Bill Clinton·Democratic Party·Hillary Clinton·Nominee·United States
Lady, where the fuck is your brain?
Reader, are you ready for a pop quiz? Let’s say you were a News Contributor talking about the prickly patch a presidential “candidate” (not) had fallen into by suggesting she was staying in the race because the front-running candidate might get assassinated.
Would you:A) not call for the front-running [...]
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Eugenes get a bum wrap–people think they’re nerds–and based on my experience with lousy Eugenes I was starting to think that their reputation was deserved. In short, I was becoming an AntiEugenist.
But then I realized, why let a few bad apples spoil the bunch? So here is a list of awesome Eugenes:
3. Eugene [...]
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Tags: Charlie Chaplin·Eugene Hutz·Eugene O'Neill·Gogol Bordello·Hillary Clinton·Jonathan Safran Foer·Oregon