The A-Train

Obama and the issue of race -- Devin Reiche

Devin Reiche wrote an article which I am re-posting because if I tell him to get a blog he'll  call me a dumpsterslut or something.

I feel that any one of the one-in-three or so Brits I've heard recently who have adopted a "Wow Americans are so much dumber than I had believed for the past eight years, never mind that the reactionary masses with media attention are now necessarily in opposition to my and most of Britain's pro-Obama stance" mentality needs to read this immediately. 

Obama And The Issue Of Race

First off, I predict that it will be necessary to establish from the outset that I am not claiming that anyone who doesn't support Barack Obama is a racist. The people I'm discussing right now are not those who take perfectly legitimate issue with Obama's stance on any of the policy decisions that comprise today's political landscape. What I'm talking about is the faction of the population who believe that the President is not an American citizen, or that his presidency represents a threat to uniquely American values.

Remember that party I went to a few months ago, and the lady who was carried out by her dad before apparently puking on her shoes? And how I had to spend 45 seconds of my life reassuring her that voluntarily writing "me love you long time" on a post-it wasn't racist?

She's now writing for the Huffington Post. About Rwanda.

It reads mostly like an STA blog or Flickr captions and it doesn't appear to have been copy-edited (at 9:47 GMT, perhaps this will change).

Oh and I can't even finish that thought because I just tripped over this gem:

"Martin told us war stories (I proceeded to have the most dramatic and violent dreams!) and he played us a song by Baz Luhrman around the table which I haven't heard for years and is packed with invaluable advice...it's called "Sunscreen"... look it up and listen!"

Ok.That's it. I was searching for the recent article about "winning the battle against hunger" written by Drew Barrymore to bring my whole point here home when I found that they'd reposted her Bazaar story titled "Obama Made Me Cry".

So thank you Huffington Post. We had a good run. And then your content became indistinguishable from Teen Vogue, and you made my own written internet-reaction disjointed and extemporaneous. I'm going to say something that, frankly, I never thought I'd think, let alone put into writing.

I'm glad you're not called the Arianna Post.

GLAD.

cough hack scientific method

You know when you've got your latte and you sprinkled your cinnamon and chocolate on it, and oh it looks delicious, but OH SHIT you inhaled a lungful of powdery mess and hack cough hack hack but then it passes and that breath you tkae that isn't tinged with bruning nutmeg is just great? That's how Chris Matthews has just made me feel for the first time in like a year.

We will name him Plumpy, or Gustav

For a whil now I've been campaigning for Family to get a puppy. Neighbors had puppies, and now I think they're going the cave. Cave right into a secret room full of puppies. Puppies with nebulous parentage.

I am also campaigning for Mom to stop dressing better than me.

Brittany and I ate a free whole chicken from Nando's

and then hung out with some BMXers, or friends of BMXers, I'm not sure, but either way if you'd told me life after uni would be like this I would not have believed you.

I finally get it

PUT A DONK ON IT