Intimate Ballots
The “joke” in the Dunham-for-Obama ad is the equivalence it posits between voting and sex. But a more basic premise of the ad—one which I think is not challenged by either its irony or...
Daily Archive: October 26, 2012
Post-post-racial America
Looking at the polling data earlier this week, I noticed my longtime worst nightmare for the 2012 presidential election was becoming a distinct possibility — a cardiac-arrest-close Obama defeat due to his losing white...
I sit and wonder why eye eye eye…
I’m off to scout Hands Creek on Three Mile Harbor as a hurricane hole.
Friday Jukebox: Music Is Better Than Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnw3wHMdJMU That is “Timebomb” by the Old 97’s, a fantastic song that has been included on several soundtracks, including the relatively good one that accompanied the entirely forgettable Clay Pigeons. Without getting too heteronormative,...
