Friday, June 13th, 2008
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Obama has said he would lift it; McCain feels it's working and ought to be left alone. In this video, kevdude25, who is gay and on active duty in the military, asks the Republican candidates (now whittled down to McCain) what freedom he's fighting for when ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Back to the Democrats for a second for an amusement found by James Mills. San Francisco-based web designer Wayne Bremser discovered this t-shirt on Haight Street:
[wayne bremser / Flickr]
Read into it what you will.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Keight hails from Portland, Oregon, but she apparently photographed this street art in New York City two days after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination. It seems safe to assume the drawing was intended as a tribute to Clinton's candidacy. (Thanks Ann Raber and James Mills.)
[keight / Flickr]
Across the country in ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
This genius composition by victoriabernal needs minimal introduction: There are some pink rabbit peeps who live in Los Angeles. They like Obama. (James Mills found them.)
[victoriabernal / Flickr]
You may disagree with the peeps's politics, but in most ways they're just like you and me: They make coffee. (Sometimes it turns ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Even if you're an Obamamaniac, the angel wings in this photo may seem a little over the top -- but the graffiti is on an old sewage drain, so maybe that balances things out. However you read it, it's a great picture, no? PixelHoundSF took it somewhere in the Bay ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
School's almost over. You still looking for summer employment? Rachel from Illinois recorded this flyer on the UC Berkeley campus (thanks Ann Raber):
[justmakeit / Flickr]
Rachel figures Berkeley will serve up plenty of applicants for the Obama and Clinton campaigns. McCain, however, might also want to look elsewhere for summer ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
So in the last post, where we mentioned that gay rights hadn't really come up yet? Well that was wrong; they just had. Yesterday, California's Supreme Court ruled that gay and straight couples must be treated equally when it comes to marriage. It's hard to image that gay marriage won't ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Joyce from Santa Monica, California, spotted this church/state juxtaposition during the '06 elections:
[Vaguely Artistic / Flickr]
She wondered whether religious imagery in polling places was legal. The answer depends, apparently, on where you live, but it's an issue that continues to be debated.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It seems that a Clinton victory in West Virginia today may be a foregone conclusion. In a completely unscientific survey, there are certainly more Hillary signs than Obama signs in this picture from Shepherdstown, WV, taken by Marylander Pang Tubhirun (hat tip to Misa Dayson):
[pangalang / Flickr]
It looks like the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The blogosphere is roiling with views on Jeremiah Wright's recent public appearances (on Friday on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal, on Sunday at an NAACP dinner, and on Monday at the National Press Club).
[assbach / Flickr]
Some posts echo of the idea visible in much of the mainstream media that Wright spells ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
These spoofs of Princeton professor Cornel West -- by Los Angeles filmmaker David McMillan, aka "Professor Clifton East" -- match up the presidential candidates with Beatles songs. McMillan created these in 2007, when the candidate pool was considerably larger. In Part I, the Democrats:
And in Part II, the Republicans:
When Sarolta ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
If the city of Berkeley, CA, could vote in November, it would surely cast an anti-war ballot for the Democrat. In the ongoing struggle between its city council and its Marine Corps recruiting center, one of the latest moves was a pro-troops rally a month ago. The anonymous blogger ...
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