The subject is …

In my official capacity as Southern Nevada Director of PLAN, I made it into Las Vegas CityLife this week. (A surreal moment, being interviewed by a paper you once wrote for.) It’s all about our fight to register new citizens to vote, and help them engage in democracy and the attempts of others to squash…

Pick me!

I’m in Portland for a conference, but couldn’t pass up this little bit of news: I feel so fancy ’cause I was one of the folks who was called for this poll, which shows Dina Titus leading Jon Porter in CD3, 43 to 39. I will say this, the poll was way too long! Short and…

Fat chicks rule

So what’s the deal with Sony’s new game Fat Princess? It’s a capture-the-flag game in which you force a fat princess to eat cake so she becomes so fat that people trying to capture her can’t squeeze her out of her castle. Joystiq reports two feminist blogs already taking the game to task. Not only…

Strange days

First stop: Crazy town — What is the deal with the New Yorker cover featuring the Obamas dressed as terrorists and burning a flag in the fireplace? Racist fear-mongering is never funny! The New Yorker can suck it. Not quit out of Crazy Town: Word of Nevada’s sorry excuse for a governor, or GW Jr.…

Hang in there baby

Sorry, my chickadees, I’ve been MIA and slow to approve comments (although may I just say there’s been some really good ones lately). I went to San Francisco for a conference and came back to do an awesome phone bank today. (We called folks to remind them about early voting for the primary — it started yesterday…

Sign posts

Over the past week four people have come to me and asked for advice about the direction of their lives. I don’t know how I became the guru of life coaching, but I did the best I could. After all, what could I tell them? Last year I left my successful career as an award-winning journalist…

Would you kick a kid in the face?

Cause if you’d kick a kid in the face, maybe this isn’t for you. But even child-free folks like myself would like a world where kids don’t have to face poverty, unsafe conditions, lack of healthcare, cuts in education … and, you know, stuff like that. In fact, there’s going to be a forum on…