disasters
Here's a trick I learned going to school and working in Washington: Whenever I feel very strongly about a news story, I try to read commentary on it from the opposite side of the political spectrum first. Usually for me, that means checking a conservative news source like
politics
I posted this as my Facebook status last week: Santorum's wins in MS and AL prompted me to coin a term for those of us (working in cities, using contraception, friends with gay people, going to college) who are bewildered by his success: The Actual America. Because I
living in SF
This humble little sign sits in the window across the street from my apartment. It's been there since I moved in; I see it everyday. Newt Gingrich is a fascinating man. I find myself writing another blog post about something he said on the stump. He's
politics
So Newt lost Florida, but I almost wanted him to win. Not like, I wanted him to win because he'd be eaiser to beat, I mean, I almost joined Team Newt for a second. Then I went back to hating him. I actually love listening to public figures
drinking
I just read a Slate article proposing you take a drink everytime Martin Scorsese calls Hugo a "picture," and I'm sure Californians have plenty of other drinking games for calling out Hollywood smug during Tinseltown's biggest night. In what has now become the most
drinking
Whenever I go to Toronado, I seem to end up talking politics. I almost never get to talk politics since leaving DC and I miss debating shit like the donut hole and SOFA [PDF] over good beer, so I should really go more often. Friday night, I met up Rocco
politics
So, I'm pretty happy that Ed Lee won. Not that I know much of anything about SF politics, but he seems like a pretty get-it-done kind of mayor and I've seen him speak once. The Twitter tax deal is one of the only things I know
