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John Sidney McCain III. You’d think that this candidate, of all people, would not want to hang out with a dictator heading a notoriously murderous and oppressive regime. But no. The Huffington Post reports that McCain hung out with Augusto Pinochet, whose reign was marked by the assasination without trial of over 3,000 civilians and [...]

Check out this article by Nicolas Kristof of the New York Times for all of the details on Al Queda’s endorsement of McCain for president and why it makes a lot of sense that the most “anti-America” position supports the most “pro-America” position: extremism breeds extremism. (Cartoon source: Married to the Sea).

Right. Buckle up, because we’re about to jump on the Hate-on-Palin bandwagon. Firstly, when a vice-presidential candidate evokes bitter articles from people from her own home state, political party, political faction, and gender, who used to consider her a close friend, that’s a bad sign. Secondly, when a vice-presidential candidate stalls her way through two [...]

Couchsurfing might conjure incongruous images. I admit that my first thought was of buoyant furniture. Yet there is something seriously rad going on here — a social phenomenon that sometimes seems more like a political or philosophical statement than a mode of travel. Kind of like frisbee. Let me explain. Couchsurfing.com is a networking website [...]

What’s this? I’ve heard that the Right has discovered a new kind of discrimination that occurs… wait, wait, this is just coming in… against women, of all people. That’s right, folks, there is some kind of “double standard” being employed, as we speak, that makes women less free than their fellow citizens. But the good [...]

Well, I have to admit it: I’m kinda angry. Or to put it less originally, MY VAGINA’S ANGRY! “Whoa,” you are saying as you back out of the room, “easy there, cowgirl.” I mean, really, that’s a joke: I feel my anger in my brain — you know, that pea-sized appendage. That’s also where I [...]

My fellow Americans, it is an honor to address the Democratic National Convention at this defining moment in history. We stand at a crossroads at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequential election since last year’s “American Idol.” One path [...]