Posted by: Lily on: October 2, 2008
SO excited to do this tonight:
Posted by: Lily on: October 2, 2008
Yes, I’m quite excited to see the debates tonight between veep hopefuls Biden and Palin. I’m not sure which I’m more excited for, though – tonight’s debates or Tina Fey’s sure-to-follow parody of Palin on SNL this weekend.
Either way, a handful of pals and I are going to be sitting around my living room, watching [...]
Posted by: Lily on: September 16, 2008
What Obama might say if he didn’t have to stay all polished and buttoned-up and charismatic all the time:
Honestly though… I’m freaking scared. I barely passed Econ in college, I don’t own any stocks, and I couldn’t tell you what a Roth IRA does. But I do know that what happened today on Wall Street [...]
Posted by: Lily on: September 13, 2008
From YouTube, as penned by the folks @ CBS:
On the Sept. 10th edition of The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, a new American citizen preparing to vote in his first US election asks, “Are we so lost we have to be sold our own democratic right!?”
Posted by: Lily on: September 8, 2008
I keep coming back to this, but I think it’s because I continue to be more and more excited/relieved/comforted to know that I am not the only one who keeps ranting about this! I’ve been in the middle of a shitstorm of one-sided politics lately. One side of my family votes exclusively with their party [...]
Posted by: Lily on: September 8, 2008
Obama acknowledges being too flip on question
about when a baby is entitled to human rights
Associated Press
Last update: September 7, 2008 – 2:51 PM
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was “above my pay grade” to answer a question about when is a baby [...]
Posted by: Lily on: September 8, 2008
Sometimes Sam Bee is a bit much for me, but she totally, completely nailed this one on the head:
Posted by: Lily on: September 7, 2008
To say that being able to see the taping of Wednesday night’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was awesome would be the grossest understatement ever. It was absolutely amazing.
Erin drove us (Erin, Chase, and me) downtown St. Paul where we had planned to meet Erin’s sister. As we drove past the theater (McNally [...]
Posted by: Lily on: September 3, 2008
Hanging out and waiting in line to see Jon Strewart, we represented the yin and yang of the Twin Cities’ two sides (in case you can’t see it, I’m wearing my “I Heart St. Paul” shirt).
Posted by: Lily on: September 3, 2008
Have I mentioned I love the convention pageantry? I am SO caught up in BOTH of these, and especially the RNC because it is LITERALLY three miles from my house.
That means that Jon Stewart has been within three miles of my house while he’s taping The Daily Show here! Oh, and [...]