Six months ago I skipped to the polls in high heels. I bounced down Jones Street to the SFGreenClean polling station to cast my ballot for historic change and what I perceived to be a new direction for our country. I proudly wore my red “I voted” sticker all day and into the next. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
now what?
Posted in all, tagged california budget crisis, california propositions, election, politics on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
regressing in the recession
Posted in all, tagged baseball, economic clusterfuck, economy, politics, sports on March 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I hate scary movies. As a child I recall screaming and crying in the back of the family station wagon while my parents and older sister calmly watched Gremlins on the big screen at the local drive in theater. Throughout the entire film I covered my ears and stared out the back of the car [...]
Obama tag cloud
Posted in all, tagged inaugural speech, obama, politics, tag clouds on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I watched President Obama give his inauguration speech from a computer screen at work yesterday. Due to the high amount of Internet traffic, the streaming video paused nearly every seven seconds for a duration of about three seconds. Those frequent interruptions made it especially difficult to process his speech as a single unit, instead it read like segmented [...]
Inauguration Day
Posted in all, tagged Inauguration day, new start, politics on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are days that seem to blend into eachother. Days when nothing worth noting happened and you can’t really recall where you went or what you did. Today was not one of those days.
Today was a day that people wore T-shirts and buttons touting the name of the man who promised America change. It was election [...]
now what?
Posted in all, tagged campaign 08, election, obama, politics on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For nearly two years we endured all the presidential campaigning. For two years we watched as things went from bad to worse to I-don’t-think-we-can-dig-a-hole-much-deeper-than-this. We listened to both sides blame each other for our country’s failures. We watched as the economy imploded and financial institutions crumbled.
For nearly two years we heard about how change was coming. Change was needed. [...]
election day
Posted in my people, tagged election day, politics, voting on November 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It was still dark when my alarm went off this morning. I looked outside and saw nothing but streetlights reflecting off damp asphalt. My throat was on fire. My glands were swollen. My head was stuffy. But I rolled out of bed with purpose: I had to vote!
While traveling from the Richmond district to North Beach [...]
