My Dog is Chelsea

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, spoke at my college graduation. He began by outlining the state of the world: it was May of 2004 and things did not look good. Growing inequality—both globally and domestically—an unjust war, a plummeting perception of America abroad. It was more of a downer speech than one would [...]

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The next 24 hours will be excruciating. Today alone, my eyes welled with tears multiple times. It’s almost too much to handle. First, it was watching a video of Springsteen playing “This Land is Your Land” at an Obama rally. Then it was hearing the news of Barack’s grandmother’s death. Then it was reading an [...]

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The moment I’ve been daydreaming about for MONTHS finally arrived:

In equally important news…
I am famous! My Barack Obama cake made it to yeswecake.com! Check it out!!!

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Please pardon this interuption in MDIC’s semi-regularly scheduled programming. But you must absolutely watch this interview with Joe Biden. It is laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Politics aside, this is the most absurd, shockingly stupid set of interview questions I have ever seen. I would hope that even McCain supporters will view this for what it is: an example [...]

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The debate last night was as predictably useless as every other.
Sarah Palin performed nearly exactly as I was expecting: she was charming, personable, friendly, vague and well-spoken (relative to recent performances), and she of course dodged nearly every difficult question. Joe Biden was surprisingly direct, clear, composed, succinct and charming—and definitively emerged as the candidate [...]

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