Five Things I Expect From the Obama Administration

The changes Obama should, and can, make to create a better USA.

People Who Should Stop Talking

Just a few people who I think should probably never talk again.

Fired Up. Ready to Go.: The Aftermath of Proposition 8

I  spent quite a bit of my summer and a ton of this semester (August-November) organizing, phonebanking, visibility-ing, canvassing, rallying, and, perhaps most significantly, Facebooking, against Prop. 8.
For those of you who don’t know, Proposition 8 would take away the right for gays and lesbians to marry to ones they love. The literal text is [...]

Done and Past

It’s over. The election, that is. I have spent the last 2 weeks “recovering,” by which I mean further putting off all of the things that I put off to do after November 4.
It was certainly an interesting ride. I spent my election day waking up at 6am and doing visibility in North Berkeley for [...]

Not There Yet

I just returned from Reno, Nevada, a.k.a. where most San Francisco Bay Area Democrats (by which I mean, almost all Bay Areans) have been spending much of their time stumping for “That One” himself, Mr. Barack Obama. Over 1000 volunteers were at the Reno headquarters office, by which I mean warehouse, the vast majority of [...]

Tina Fey for Vice President

Surely by now you’ve heard about them- the videos that rocked the nation. Tina Fey IS Sarah Palin, except that she is probably smarter and a better role model for women, not to mention better at reading lines.
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton Give a PSA

Sarah Palin As Interviewed by Katie Couric (with actual dialogue)

Sarah Palin [...]

The Consequential and The Conscientious

A friend asked me the other day why I stay involved. I am just one person; a small cog in the internal combustion engine political machine.  So why bother? Why be so self-important as to assume that I can make a difference?
It’s a tough question, with a lot more philosophy involved than you might think. [...]

Doomsday Has Arrived, OR, Why Free Market Capitalism Doesn’t Work

I’m not an economist, and indeed my interest in the economy generally falls just above my interest in which “Hills” character is hooking up with which semi-celebrity. But this recent economic collapse has got me worried.
As I’m sure everyone is aware, the stock market fell 500 points today, the worst loss since the markets opened [...]

Catching Up- Who the hell is Sarah Palin?!

My apologies for not updating recently. I have been off in the magical land of “college,” full of all sorts of mythical challenges including “reading like a million pages a day” and “barely being able to afford food.” But now I am back, so we shall begin.
There’s a lot of information floating around about [...]

On Elitism

Politicians are not normal people. It takes a special kind of person to run for office, one with an incredible amount of confidence- “arrogance”, if you will- and a belief that they are the best person for the job at which so many have had problems. For these reasons alone, it is ridiculous to for [...]