Occasionally I drag myself away from social networking sites and enter the dark, paneled walls of Linked In, the not-so-social networking site that paved the way for its predecessors. Linked In is like the older, nerdier cousin who shows up at the family reunion in Farah slacks and a bow tie, and talks about […]
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Why Obama is Bad News For Dads and Husbands
Attention all American men: The jig is up. We’re onto you. We know you’re capable of doing much more than you’ve been doing for the past 700 years. We’re sick of your whining about having to work and change the baby’s diaper; work and grill up a couple of burgers on a weekend; work and […]
An Elephant Never Forgets
I know that when you’re a huge organization, some little mistakes are going to be made. You can’t know everything about everybody. When I was campaigning for Barack Obama, I was sent out with a list that the 14-year-old campaign field office coordinator swore contained only names of supporters who wouldn’t throw shoes at […]
I Survived The Election
I’m finally recovering from the election. It’s taking me all week, but I think I’m going to survive. I’m too old for this. My hips hurt, although how that can happen just from being tense and nervous is anybody’s guess. The fact that I’m drained – physically and emotionally – is the reason why politics […]
It’s Election Day! I’m So Scared!
How can I possibly write something funny about this presidential campaign? It’s Election Day and I’m more nervous than when I started my job as a reporter at the Coshocton Tribune, the only time in my life that I was too nervous to eat. My mom took me to dinner after helping me move into […]
Convention-al Lack of Wisdom
I either hate national party conventions or I love them. I can’t decide. I either hate them because they remind me of our high school assemblies, they’re so cornball, they’re full of puns and plays on words, too much emphasis and pauses for clapping, where good politicians can get away with bad, overly dramatic speeches […]