Pinko Magazine Hedonism + Activism

Brooklyn-focused, I know, but fun. For people who can’t make it to philly, there are several brooklyn bars offering free drinks to people who are willing to make calls out to voters.

When I lived in Philadelphia I lived at 20th and Spruce, two blocks from the worst bar in the world, an Irish Pub called, creatively, Irish Pub. It was as close to a suburban experience as you could get in a major urban area; the sort of place you would go if you had to [...]

NYT:
As Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, put it Friday morning on the ABC program “Good Morning America,” the congressional leaders were told “that we’re literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system, with all the implications here at home [...]

Find out more about McCain’s fabulous inventions here.

Ok, I’m sure this doesn’t really come as a shock to anyone but Sarah Palin, that weird unblinking hunchback running to be John McCain’s understudy, doesn’t approve of you and your dang alternative lifestyle. And she most certainly does not want anyone, least of all herself, reading books about it.
NYT (via Politico):
…in 1995, Ms. Palin, [...]

Some people know that Raffaello Follieri as an Italian con-man who defrauded investors by pretending to be a real estate agent form the Vatican or some shit. Others know him as the dude who got a serious blow j from made out with then girlfriend Anne “Princess Diaries” Hathaway on his yacht.
Well, in a [...]

Yesterday, at a campaign event in Virginia, Barack Obama employed an old southern colloquialism to describe Senator McCain’s assertion that he is now the candidate of change. Here is what Obama said:
“John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush – except for economic policy, [...]

Boy it sure would be nice if she knew someone in some position of authority somewhere who could maybe do something about this:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday there are too few black Americans in the State Department. ”I have lamented that I can go into a meeting at the Department of State — and [...]

It’s Wednesday and Ashton Kutcher has yet to emerge from my closet with a camera crew. It would appear that I am not, in fact, being Punk’d. Sarah Palin really is the Republican’s choice for Vice President of America!
Tonight Governor Palin will take the stage in what will undoubtedly be the most important speech of [...]

John McCain is likely to shake things up this week and deliver his acceptance speech from the rubble of the World Trade Center the ‘devastation zone’ that we used to call the gulf coast.
From Politico:
McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm [...]