Archive for May, 2008
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Somewhere out there in America, on a highway median earlier this month, circax found some Ron Paul supporters loving up the Revolution (thanks, Misa Dayson):
[circax / Flickr]
It almost looks like they might be having a cookout.
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Jeff "Petro" Petkevicius is running for president. His platform: gas at $1.25 per gallon. Petro is a Katrina survivor living in Ponchatoula, LA, where he works for a water treatment company. He describes himself as a "street savvy" "conservative Jesus Freak" who's seen a thing or two in life.
Petro and ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Chris Piascik is a designer in Cambridge, MA, and he fills notebooks with fantastic daily drawings and stylized words. Ann Raber discovered this page with a quotation from Obama's The Audacity of Hope:
[Chris Piascik / Flickr]
Piascik has even painted some creatures onto red Chuck Taylors.
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
So in the last post, where we mentioned that gay rights hadn't really come up yet? Well that was wrong; they just had. Yesterday, California's Supreme Court ruled that gay and straight couples must be treated equally when it comes to marriage. It's hard to image that gay marriage won't ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights, like abortion, is one of those normally core political issues that hasn't broken through into high visibility in this presidential race. Yet, anyway. Online, though, you can of course find riches. Let's start by rewinding a few months to New Hampshire, where Dennis Kucinich was approached by Harvard ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Joyce from Santa Monica, California, spotted this church/state juxtaposition during the '06 elections:
[Vaguely Artistic / Flickr]
She wondered whether religious imagery in polling places was legal. The answer depends, apparently, on where you live, but it's an issue that continues to be debated.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Les is unabashedly "for Hillary" and made this animated short to show his support. (Found by Sarolta Cump.) It paints the Obama campaign as the product of a well-oiled machine. Churn up Oprah Winfrey, Kool-Aid, "snotty followers," and a few other ingredients and voila! A campaign that takes a nosedive ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
With room to grow [MaxVelascoKnott / Flickr]
Ask the blogosphere to assess the health of the Republican and Democratic parties and you get wildly different answers. Citizen Haines, a Virginia native and self-described sarcastic polymath, is afraid that the Republican Party is in trouble because it's diluting conservative principles to be ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
This takes citizen ads to a whole new level. It includes tap dancing, dogs in t-shirts, and dizzying costume changes -- all supported by a very(!) enthusiastic original song (thanks, Sue Salinger):
Grace Uncensored is a performer from Springfield, IL.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
It looks like yoovie moon took this picture at a festival on the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, last month. It's sort of a surreal trio: John McCain meets Bob Marley meets... an Obama/Adam Sandler hybrid? (Hat tip to Ann Raber.)
[yoovie / Flickr]
Is there really a healthy market for presidential art?
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Dixie Wells -- aka "young and with it" (possibly more young and with it than her subject) -- is from Austin, TX. It appears that she caught this conflicted donkey outside the local Alamo movie theatre the night of the Democratic debate in Austin.
[young and with it / Flickr]
Is any ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
[kittykatfish / Flickr]
With the recent gas-tax hoopla on the campaign trail, it's been easy to forget that back in January Congress approved a different economic stimulus package. And now many of us are receiving checks from the IRS for several hundred dollars. The other exciting piece of this? We get ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Twenty percent of white West Virginians who voted in yesterday's Democratic primary said race "influenced their choice." Two out of every ten. Although Obama's skin color didn't appear to be an issue in white Iowa, it does seem to matter in the general Appalachian region. Clinton's focus on the ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A light palate cleanser between between heavier offerings: via Sue Salinger, a toddler speaks her political mind:
[asaaaaad / Vimeo.]
Hard to come up with a punchline after that one.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It seems that a Clinton victory in West Virginia today may be a foregone conclusion. In a completely unscientific survey, there are certainly more Hillary signs than Obama signs in this picture from Shepherdstown, WV, taken by Marylander Pang Tubhirun (hat tip to Misa Dayson):
[pangalang / Flickr]
It looks like the ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
This photograph connects two major election issues: immigration and a military stressed by Iraq and Afghanistan. It was taken two years ago by cobalt123 at an immigration-reform march in Phoenix, Arizona:
[cobalt123 / Flickr]
The boy's sign does appear to be on target, at least according to the numbers from the beginning ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
[Dean Terry / Flickr]
Beth Martin Birky teaches women's studies and English at Goshen College in Indiana. She recalls vividly her sixth-grade entree into electoral politics: "I remember my first voting booth: a cardboard refrigerator box in the hallway of Oak Street Elementary school in Orrville, Ohio." Birky's been a dedicated ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Barack Obama has quite a worldwide following. He's got vocal supporters as far away as Gaza City and as close as Canada. From our northern neighbors, first a serious comment: these young Canadians say Obama's appeal is all about international relations:
And next something silly: this old-timey song pays tribute with ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
See the periodic table? [Mike Mertz / Flickr]
A group of scientists, educators, and business leaders is calling for Science Debate 2008, and thousands of people have signed on in support. The goal here is to convince the 08 candidates to debate big scientific issues -- issues that affect America's national ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Inside a confessional [two stout monks / Flickr]
Stephen M. Bauer from New Jersey calls himself an ordinary Catholic. A Catholic whose guilt, it seems, includes his pre-Iraq-war thinking (via Ann Raber):
I am very disappointed in my own clarity of thinking just before the invasion of Iraq. Originally, I was opposed ...
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