And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. “
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Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of [...]
To stave off recession, Congress and the President urge us to buy more stuff. Encouraging Americans to keep shopping, they tell us, will plump our economy — despite fundamental shifts in the world economy, not to mention two large-scale wars. Whatever the economic merits of this plan, I believe that promoting consumerism is bad for [...]
(Cross-posted to Off the Bus)
At about 7:45pm last night, at the eastern edge of Hunting Park in northern North Philadelphia, I knocked on a voter’s door with a last-minute reminder to get down to the polls only three blocks over. “You mean the voting is still open?” the woman asked. Yes, I reassured her, she [...]
Today, with three different partners, I hit 10 “turfs” (bundles of voter addresses) in North Philadelphia. At about 100 addresses per turf, I estimate I hit about 500 voters with Obama door-hangers reminding them that tomorrow is election day and where their local polling location is.
GOTV — Get Out the Vote — is as [...]
I’ve landed in latte-sipping, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, um… scratch that. This afternoon my friend Baratunde and I canvassed southwest Philadelphia.
This is friendly territory for Obama, and if the strategists are right, the key to a a victory on Tuesday (however defined) will turn on the success of the ground game in ensuring that the supporters we [...]
With warm weather teasing the Boston area, it’s a little surprising to find a reminder of spring in your fridge drawer. But a few days ago I’d discovered a head of cabbage that I’d almost fully shorn was bursting forth with new life.
I don’t know if this cabbage is alive by the biological definition of [...]
Prices of food have hit the roof, but nothing has gotten more expensive faster than organic foods. By the laws of economics, organic food consumption will surely fall:
“Man, $6.99 for a gallon of milk is pushing it. We have to be very careful about not pricing organics out of the market.”
– Perry Abbenante, global grocery [...]
So, hoping to get to Long Island in time for Passover, I was shopping for tix that would put me somewhere near Penn Station, so the Chinatown buses were out. Amtrak’s still too expensive, so the old gray mare, Greyhound, was my next option. Turns out the standard price for Boston-New York is $32… but [...]
I’m not sure if this is analogous to how people feel about the overwhelming electoral support African-Americans have been demonstrating for Barack Obama, but I’m bothered/embarrassed/angered by Chinese-Americans who came out yesterday in counter-protest to the anti-China rallies in San Francisco.
To the best of my knowledge, the protesters were out there criticizing Chinese policies, not [...]
I got my first overtly racist anti-Obama comment today while phoning central Pennsylvania. It was a 62-year old man, who said, simply, “I’m not voting for the black man.” I moved to end the call, but he continued, “I’ve worked with hundreds of black people.” He meant that as a defense (”Some of them are [...]
