Your Halloween pumpkins don’t have the same old boring designs. Get some pumpkin stencils and carving! You can make some amazing stuff, including Star Wars pumpkins or for Twilight fans, Edward and Bella. How about Jay Leno? The Kool Aide guy? A Cylon pumpkin? Some tips and links, below. Like many, I’ve been carving pumpkins [...]
I got an email from American Citizens Abroad asking for people to lobby against a proposed insurance health care excise tax that would impact those living outside the US. Apparently, coverage you have outside the US wouldn’t exempt you from the tax. From what ACA sent me: ACA is requesting that all members and supports [...]
Did you realize the US Census doesn’t count Americans who live abroad? It was pretty annoying to me last time. I wanted to be counted! More important, when there’s not a good count, in turn there’s less representation and support for the rights of Americans abroad. Some new numbers are in. According to an ACA [...]
“Whether you’re a pundit, a professor or the president, if you’re a black man you better know your place,” writes Keith Boykin in White Men Can’t Judge over at the Huffington Post, about the Henry Louis Gates arrest saga. I’d rephrase that to lose the words “black man” when dealing with the police. That’s because [...]
Apparently, some people believe President Barack Obama wants to turn the United States into a socialist country — with fears that this would be a terrible step in the wrong direction. Fair to say, most people with these fears have never lived in a socialist country. I have, in Britain, for 12 years. I thought [...]
Euphoria over Obama’s win, followed by disbelief and despair over over Proposition 8′s ban on gay marriage passing in California. I’ll be out protesting tomorrow at South Coast Plaza in Orange County as part of a nationwide campaign. Please consider going to a location yourself. And if you’re against gay marriage, please, some words to [...]
Throughout the day, people go through my trash cans. It’s a depressing sight. Among the streets of affluent Newport Beach are legions of trash pickers, pulling out cans, bottles and other recyclable material. Most are Latinos, recent immigrants or illegal immigrants, I would guess. Often they might be accompanied by one or two small children. [...]
Did something different for Halloween — Obama pumpkins, since I was never able to get an Obama sign. Want to do your own? Stencil here, more pics below:
I keep reading that this is the US presidential election where the campaigns gets the web. The Obama campaign, in particular, I gather has set new records in fundraising and outreach through the internet. Yet as a first time political campaign contributor — a contributor to Obama’s campaign — I’ve been left pretty cold by [...]
I love America. But am I “pro-American?” Until recently, I had no idea my “pro-hood” was in question. Now I have the McCain-Palin campaign suggesting I don’t live in “real” America or that some parts of America are more “heartland-like” or “patriotic” than where I live. Knock it off. It’s not right. The American people [...]