Tag: obama

The First Dog

This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (And yes, I have purebred…

Yes We Can (Use PowerPoint)

(via BoingBoing) As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a…

Mercy Now

Some days it’s really difficult to understand the depths of human cruelty and hatred. Today just became one of those days for me, as I read about the…

New Years Day

One of my favorite songs from what I think of as “first-period” U2 (the era before Unforgettable Fire) has always been “New Year’s Day,” with its juxtaposition of…

Yes We Can Ringtone

OK, so the election’s over and all, but I just got a new iPhone and wanted to play with ringtones. So I took Tana Sokolow’s remix —  which…

Obama, Pollan on “Food” Policy

While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy…

Obama Family Dog petition

I don’t normally push online petitions, the theory being that the ease with which a petition is generated, circulated, and signed is inversely proportional to the influence it…