The threats have been relentless. The disdain and disappointment is sometimes overwhelming, but we have decided to stay strong. No matter what people say, no matter what people do, we are united ($10 [family members excluded] if you can guess what song I’m paraphrasing in that sentence). IP and I will not, not be getting [...]
I listened to Lila Downs’s “Nothing but the Truth” from her album Shake Away constantly in the run-up to last Tuesday’s election. It received a ton of iPod play during my runs, sometimes comprising half of any given workout. To me it spoke to the need for change and it represented to me [...]
I have no words to express my absolute happiness and joy that Barack Obama is the country’s 44th president.
I’ll be honest: the past eight years have done much to add a nice, new layer of cynicism to my already countless coats, but this helps to sand that down a tad or two. As a daughter [...]
Obama = Air-conditioned, empty Red Line train in the morning
Biden = Free ride on the bus because the fare machine is broken
McCain = Train offloaded at Judiciary Square
Palin = Metrobus crashing into your apartment
Written and composed by *The* IP, inspired by the following images linked to at the Crown Princess Marie Chantal of Greece message [...]
Up until a few months ago, I was a registered independent. I switched over to the Democratic Party when I a) realized I couldn’t vote in the primary (this was never a problem in Michigan, so please forgive my ignorance as a result of lifelong experience with another state’s laws) and 2) moved into our [...]
Hah! See what a I did there, just like almost everyone else? Some randomness on the debate that Biden won . . .
1) When you choose a VP lingo bingo card to use as a drinking game instead of using it for its intended bingo purposes, please be sure to choose one that does not [...]
This is not a political blog, as expressed in the founding post. But I am so sick of hearing McCain and Palin’s lies. I am so tired of the past eight years, and the promised continuation of these disastrous times (no matter if McCain’s trying to co-opt Obama’s theme of change — the [...]
So what’re my answers to Greenpeace frat boy reps stopping me to talk about climate change and harangue me to sign their petition and give them money as I walk over to Starbucks to get a chai tea frappuccino to tide me over for the rest of the afternoon?
Dear LORD, I hear about this at [...]
Last night I saw Under the Same Moon (La misma luna), a film about a young Mexican boy (Carlitos, played by Adrian Alonso) who, after his grandmother dies in her sleep, illegally crosses the U.S.-Mexican border to find his mother (Rosario, played by Kate del Castillo) in Los Angeles. The theme of illegal immigration [...]
. . . I love you. Thank you for finally doing what’s right by women in your city and legalizing abortion in the first trimester. It is not a step backwards for democracy—it is a step forward in democracy, recognizing that women are capable of making the necessary decisions regarding their body and [...]
