Obama Says No to Barbara Walters’ ‘Girly Dog’ (or why I still want a woman to be President)

I am happy that Obama will be our next president for a number of reasons. Really, I am. His recent interview with Barbara Walters actually did a good job of reminding me why I am confident in Obama’s ability to handle the challenges facing the US. For once, I got to see Obama [...]

What’s up with Karl Rove?

Is he planning something nefarious? Is he a pod person? Is he on drugs? What ever it is, it’s worrying me. First he predicted a landslide victory for Obama. Then he acted strangely on Fox News on election night as well, according to Andrew O’Hehir over at Salon,
Barnes kept circling [...]

What the presidential election does not (and might) mean

OK, I’ve officially regained full use of my critical faculties, or at least enough that I’m ready to start calling the media on some bullshit. Because something unexpected happened, everyone is scrambling for causes, effects, and the ultimate meaning of an event that many people thought they’d never see. Many of the causes, [...]

Prop 8 Passes in California

Here is the AP article on the passage of Prop 8, via the New York Times.

Alas, Prop 8 May Pass

My relief at Obama’s election was quickly eclipsed by despair, as the polls in California closed the instant the President elect was called on CNN, and the prop 8 race was close. I monitored the polls until 11PM, and expected to know the results when I woke up this morning, only to find that [...]

President Elect

It’s 6 am in the UK, and I’m sleepy and weepy and more sentimental about my country than I have ever felt in my adult life. If 44% of voters in rural counties in Southern red states can vote for Obama, then America, and by extension the world, may not be the place [...]

Is Obama President Yet?

The answer…

Why you need to vote & not pin your hopes on leaving the country

As someone who bailed on the USA two years into the President Select’s disastrous administration, trust me, I know that of which I speak: if you’re even contemplating chucking it in and just moving abroad* consider the following:
National Health Care can bite me…and then make me wait years for treatment for the wound. Michael Moore [...]

Obama’s Grandmother Dies

Obama’s grandmother dies one day before her grandson is elected president, the saddest piece of news I’ve heard in some time. His statement, issued with his sister, via Salon:
It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer. She was the cornerstone of [...]

Kiss My Ass, California

I can’t wait for Nov 4 to deliver me from Prop 8 and the endless discussions of my appropriate level of civil rights as a queer in California.
As a short, skirt-wearing, half Puerto Rican woman from the projects in the Bronx, with a doctorate, who looks white and has an Irish first and last name, [...]