Making Joseph Kony famous – Why was the Campaign so Successful?

I’m impressed but also a little bit horrified. By now over 15 million people have seen Invisible Children’s Kony2012 campaign, a 29 minute film detailing the horrific actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader. This rebel group, which has captured 30,000 young children and molded them into guerilla fighters and sex slaves, started [...]

WBC and the Art of Protesting

For all my outspokeness about politics, I rarely actually get to be part of any real political protests. I support the Occupy movement wholeheartedly, but sadly my work schedule at Newhouse negates me from being able to participate as much as I’d like. However, I recently had the opportunity to participate in a political protest [...]

Barney Frank’s Retirement Signifies the End of an Era

Barney Frank has announced that he is retiring from Congress after 30 years of service to the United States and its citizens. For those of you who are unaware as to who Barney Frank is, he is one of the most well-known and prominent openly gay Jewish elected officials in the United States. Seriously, this [...]

The GOP’s Problem with Facts

Okay, fresh off the great Rick Perry “Oops” debacle, we have Herman Cain with his own ridiculous political blunder. For those of you who don’t know what happened here yet, during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board, Herman Cain was asked a very simple question: Was he in favor of the actions [...]

NYC City Hall: “Take Your Rights and Get Out!”

I realize that I’ve been ranting and raving about the the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I will continue to do so long as it’s relevant. But, it just seems that every other day, something enlightening or maddening occurs within its context. It’s kind of like a car fire to me, I just can’t seem [...]

Bachmann Sucks. Santorum Sucks. Who Else?

Oh yeah, that’s right, Rick Perry sucks too, and he just proved it spectacularly. I was trying to actually avoid dealing with this particular debacle, but Perry’s royal screw up is kind of like when you’re throwing a college party and ‘that guy’ no one knows gets so drunk and sick he can’t remember where [...]

‘Faketriots’ Run Amok

Originally, I was going to make this about how the only time you hear about violent extremism, it is almost always right-wing ‘patriots’ who seem to think that bigotry, hatred and violence are the most American thing since apple pie. Unfortunately, the douchebag Occupy Oakland vandals decided to piss all over that for me. But [...]

Dear Occupy Oakland Douchebags, Knock It Off!

I’d just like to preface this with a statement: I do not begrudge the Occupy Oakland movement as a whole. This address is strictly to the dumbasses that seem to think that smashing windows and spraying graffiti is a good way to make progress. I’ll put it to you all quite simply: you are deluded, [...]

Is the GOP Cockblocking Obama?

As if my amazement could not grow even more, it turns out that the gridlocked Republican majority House of Representatives actually passed a part of the Obama Jobs Plan. Now, the real question is, what’s the catch? When I read this story, I immediately began to look for the greater substance. Well, the real substance [...]

Birth Control: The Latest Controversy

Tension is high over Initiative 26 (the Personhood Amendment) in Mississippi. Voters will cast their votes for or against this controversial amendment on Nov. 8. If passed, the Mississippi Constitution will be amended to “define the word ‘person’ or ‘persons’ […] to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent [...]