As a group project for a class on American political media we had to make a series of mock campaign ads for one of the candidates in the Presidential race. My group was assigned to Ralph Nader, and two of the videos we made are on Youtube ( Read more... )

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

I think I officially love Gmail. Like, more than Steve Novick, President Bartlet AND lamp.

Fun facts of the day: in the U.S. Senate, there are three times as many people named "Chuck" as there are black people. If you add up the number of Johns and the number of Jims, you get the number of women ( Read more... )

Hey 2002-2004 era theatre people from South! Who wants to feel really fuckin old?

http://www.southstage.org/Shakespeare.html

I'm really bored at work, so I decided to go shopping in every Presidential candidate's online store. I picked one completely ridiculous product that makes me laugh from every site. So if any of you feel like getting me a Groundhog Day/MONSTER TUESDAY!!!1!!!one!!!1 present...ya know...feel free.

( The Democrats )

Also, I totally forgot what day it is!!! One year ago today, I was sitting in my last day of work at the good guvnuh's office, when, while chilling in the advance bullpen, a crisis arose. Bombs. Everywhere. Dozens of them. Under bridges, in the subways, everywhere. Chaos. It was truly as though there wasn't a giant billboard above the Patrick HQ ( Read more... )

I notice that I talk a lot on here about the Democratic race, but I seldom remark on the Republicans. So here’s a few remarks ( Read more... )

Today I read the first convincing endorsement for Barack Obama that I've seen to date. And let me just say that I really could care less that Deval Patrick and John Kerry and Ted Kennedy (and Caroline Kennedy) have all endorsed him. I really could care less that he has a number of glowing recommendations from a number of politicians and celebrities ( Read more... )

1. YP4 Summit. Oh. My. God. So awesome. Seriously. For 5 days I got to throw political corectness to the wind and surround myself with 200 of the most amazing people I've ever met. And not just young armchair liberals who sit around and smoke pot and talk about how The A Daily Show is not as good with the writers on strike or how the world would be ( Read more... )

As misogynistic as it is, as dumb as it is, as much of an inaccurate reading and waste of time as it is, I absolutely LOVE that Hillary getting a little choked up (note: her voice cracked; she was not crying) is turning out to be one of these iconic campaign moments, on par with (for better or worse) the Checkers speech and Howard Dean's 2004 " ( Read more... )