election Archive

  • Growing up in a Catholic household the 1960s, my husband says that most of the living rooms he visited as a child had pictures of Jesus and JFK hanging on...

    Weird Barack Obama art

    Growing up in a Catholic household the 1960s, my husband says that most of the living rooms he visited as a child had pictures of Jesus and JFK hanging on...

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  • So, the Internet is abuzz with responses to last night’s big speeches, which frankly, made me sad. Tons of personal and partisan attacks – even disparaging “community organizing” – a...

    Sarah Palin comedy

    So, the Internet is abuzz with responses to last night’s big speeches, which frankly, made me sad. Tons of personal and partisan attacks – even disparaging “community organizing” – a...

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  • I watched Sarah Palin speak to the country for the first time on Friday and cringed. As she gave her shout-outs to Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, it seemed like...

    Palin in Comparison: This pander wasn’t for me

    I watched Sarah Palin speak to the country for the first time on Friday and cringed. As she gave her shout-outs to Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, it seemed like...

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  • “You must have an overdeveloped sense of guilt,” I remember a guy telling me over coffee in college. “I can see why you’d be a feminist and everything, but I...

    Race and gender and guilt, oh my!

    “You must have an overdeveloped sense of guilt,” I remember a guy telling me over coffee in college. “I can see why you’d be a feminist and everything, but I...

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  • I’ve seen a lot of concern and frustration about yesterday’s primary in the blogosphere today. But I’m much more optimistic, and glad my state got to participate in the democratic...

    Thinking

    I’ve seen a lot of concern and frustration about yesterday’s primary in the blogosphere today. But I’m much more optimistic, and glad my state got to participate in the democratic...

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  • The first news I heard after sitting down and comparing policy to policy on the two Democratic candidates’ web sites was this: The governor gave my mom a non-partisan donut...

    Watching, waiting, donut

    The first news I heard after sitting down and comparing policy to policy on the two Democratic candidates’ web sites was this: The governor gave my mom a non-partisan donut...

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  • I just read this story over at Daily Kos, and I was really grateful that someone took the time to actually go through some of the legislative records of Clinton...

    This is me getting tweaked about lead paint and blog primary coverage

    I just read this story over at Daily Kos, and I was really grateful that someone took the time to actually go through some of the legislative records of Clinton...

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  • This little piece of social satire has me mesmerized: Hillary is mom jeans Keep clicking. I think that it may be one of the most insightful things about our cultural...

    Hillary folded the map wrong

    This little piece of social satire has me mesmerized: Hillary is mom jeans Keep clicking. I think that it may be one of the most insightful things about our cultural...

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  • As of now, I am not stumping for anything or anyone, but I am definitely feeling stumped. For example… how is it that I learned more about Hillary Clinton’s policies...

    Political stumping

    As of now, I am not stumping for anything or anyone, but I am definitely feeling stumped. For example… how is it that I learned more about Hillary Clinton’s policies...

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