Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Tyler Oakley is from Michigan. He's gay, he's in college, and he likes "awkward moments." He also has a way with comic argument, as you'll see in this video that he made after California's Supreme Court ruled to allow gay marriage. (Thanks, James Mills.)
Tyler would like you to know ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Last night Obama secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination and Clinton didn't concede. It's not remotely possible to sum up the loud online talk, so here are just a few interesting reactions.
Designer-doodler Chris Piascik in Cambridge, MA, went straight to his moleskine notebook to do one of his ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
For the presidential candidates, Memorial Day was an opportunity to talk about Iraq. It's less clear that Wijadi had a specific message about this war when he joined a number of other Flickrites for a walk through Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But intentional or not, the light ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Emily Green, a University of Michigan College Democrat, wonders why abortion has been a sleeper issue so far in Campaign 08 (via Larissa Zhou):
It fascinates me that in one of the most polarizing, controversial, and highly contested elections of the past 30 years, that one of the most polarizing, controversial, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Billionaires' Row in CA: where it all went down
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Barack Obama's remarks in CA about small-town bitterness are in their umpteenth news cycle. It's hard to know how they'll affect next Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. One recent poll shows Obama plummeting in PA; another shows him holding steady nationally.
The blogosphere, of course, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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Things aren't so different, it seems, from Romeo and Juliette's day, when names meant everything. Barack Obama detractors have used his middle name -- Hussein -- to imply falsely that he's a Muslim. More recently, though, Obama's name has been attracting positive attention.
Not too long ago, Juan ...
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