Word of Mouth blog

This is an email from Darlene in Uganda; if anybody feels moved to help, please reply directly to her. This is obviously a worthy cause and I hope some of y’all will step up to the plate, but as she points out, there is no obligation whatsoever. – phee
Hi folks,
We’re really hating to send this [...]

This is amazing. Keith Olbermann comments on California’s Proposition 8 with a heartfelt appeal to the hearts of those who voted ‘yes’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch

Hello Friends,
Devanshu and I just got back from a month of traveling around Uganda with my mother. What a journey I tell you. This country is really so stunningly beautiful and mysterious and full of crazy flowers and even crazier animals and birds. It’s also infuriating, with unbelievable roads, and drivers that make my hair [...]

I have given up on “strategic voting”. I found myself walking away from the polling place with a bad taste in my mouth. It was not from licking the little pencil.
We are now co-opting our system to where you are now encouraged to vote for someone you don’t want, in order to avoid someone else [...]

This piece (from The Onion, naturally) is pretty funny, the more so because it’s true. – phee

Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
WASHINGTON—After emerging victorious from one of the most pivotal elections in history, president-elect Barack Obama will assume the role of commander in chief on Jan. 20, shattering a racial barrier the United [...]

Yes… we had our disappointing election, and they’ve had a nationwide epiphany, an orgy of joy and transformation and hope for change. It’s inspiring and exciting and scary all at once. How big of a change will this really bring? How different can things get, considering that the system is still the system, and just [...]