David Brooks annoys me

My relationship with the opinion columnists is often love-hate, especially when it comes to David Brooks. Brooks is one of those ultra-conservative opinion factories that loves to skewer lefty, latte drinking, Prius driving, farmers market visiting liberals while trying to paint himself as one of the “common folk”. He even wrote a whole book skewering [...]

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Obama!!!

It’s Official: Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for President.
He was my pick in the caucus and he will definitely be my pick in November vs. Grandpa McCrankypants (a fabulous nickname coined by someone over at Jezebel).
I’m donating money to the Obama campaign later tonight– the first time I’ve ever given money to any political [...]

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A Funny Feeling

Today at work I read an article on MSNBC.com about Encountering racism on the campaign trail by Obama supporters. It mainly focuses on the Clinton strongholds of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and some of the racist, ignorant, and misinformed beliefs of some voters in those states. The article was really upsetting to me in [...]

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I Do Not [Heart] Huckabee

I do not understand how Mike Huckabee is now the Republican frontrunner in the first three primary states.
In 1992, he wanted to isolate people that had AIDS because they were carriers of “a plague”. That same year he said that he found “homosexuality to be “an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle.” This week in a [...]

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Who’s Your Perfect Match?

So it’s less than one month until the Iowa caucus, and pretty soon the country will be into full-blown ELECTION FEVER. There are still a bunch of candidates in the running, and luckily ABC.com has created the Match-o-Matic, a fancy animated online quiz that helps you choose the perfect candidate for YOU! Just answer the [...]

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