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election Archive
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Weird Barack Obama art
Posted on November 14, 2008 | 3 CommentsGrowing 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... -
Sarah Palin comedy
Posted on September 4, 2008 | 1 CommentSo, 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... -
Palin in Comparison: This pander wasn’t for me
Posted on September 1, 2008 | 8 CommentsI 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... -
Race and gender and guilt, oh my!
Posted on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments“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... -
Thinking
Posted on March 5, 2008 | 2 CommentsI’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... -
Watching, waiting, donut
Posted on March 4, 2008 | No CommentsThe 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... -
This is me getting tweaked about lead paint and blog primary coverage
Posted on February 28, 2008 | 2 CommentsI 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... -
Hillary folded the map wrong
Posted on February 23, 2008 | 2 CommentsThis 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... -
Political stumping
Posted on February 12, 2008 | 6 CommentsAs 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...
