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About Me
I am an American living in Britain, a beautiful island in the North Atlantic. (more)
What To Eat?
An index of my vegan recipes. See? Not deprived.
Where To Go?
A list of my travel articles.
Wednesday Food Blogging
My new food blog, where I post all the food news and recipes I used to publish here. (Not just on Wednesday, either.)
Best of WDIK
If my blog were burning, these are the posts I'd save.

Plan to vote? Read these links first!

Palin's pals in Alaska
They want to secede from the United States, among other things.
McCain as Wile E Coyote, Obama as Roadrunner
Beep beep.
My old newspaper of record, Dayton Daily News, endorses Obama
"With his agile mind, often pitch-perfect judgment and preternatural calm and self-confidence, he seems built for the job of sorting through this thing, if anybody can."
Maureen Dowd opines in Latin
Quoting Palin, "Tu betchus!"
Palin's amateurish administration
Hilarious.
St Louis paper endorses Obama
"In a word, Mr. Obama has been presidential."
Michelle Obama
talks to Marie Claire.
McCain's crappy anger
"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"
Donna Brazile
Is not going to the back of the bus.
A view of Obama from the Brit ambassador
Pretty good overview, actually.
And from Time, just the opposite, on Obama:
"[H]is preternatural calm has proved reassuring in both the economic crisis and the first debate."
Rolling Stone: Make Believe Maverick
"[H]e's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in." Harsh words from a fellow POW.
Earmarks are a fake issue
Another picture of a pie. Don't give me the earmark piece.
More reaction on the HSUS endorsement
Much good stuff here indeed.
The untold story of this campaign:
How education is changing politics.
John McCain better watch out:
"(T)his pattern -- exploiting "old-boy" mentors and then turning against them for her own advantage -- defines Sarah Palin's rise to power"
The problem with Sarah Palin:
Is that she hasn't summered at a Wal-Mart in Tuscany. Or something like that.
Why Palin fired Monegan and hired Kopp
The Anchorage Daily News has the scoop.
Scholarly article on Democrats' vs Republicans'
views on climate change. Turns out they're getting further apart.
Jonathan Alter on McCain's maverickiness
A real must-read article for anyone seeking more info on McCain and his readiness to be president.
What white privilege really means
by Tim Wise
How McCain's health care "plan" will raise your taxes
"The upshot is that many more Americans — millions more — will find themselves on their own in the bewildering and often treacherous health insurance marketplace." Vital reading.
Hockey Moms Against Sarah Palin
Don't mess with pit-bulls. They'll rip you apart, one video at a time.
The low tax left
The best kept secret in the campaign: Obama wants to lower your taxes!
All in the family
John McCain's cousin wonders where the John McCain of eight years ago went.
All you need to know about tax rates
From someone who knows: money guru Andrew Tobias.
Sarah Palin on Jewish issues
The Miami Herald concludes she's clueless.
Our broke down army
Five signs of a military in trouble
The revealing interview
How we know Palin is not interested enough in world affairs to be conversant with the issues a potential president needs to be.
"Furthering God's plan"
What's the real origin of the phrase Palin used in the Gibson interview?
Sarah Palin quotes Westbrook Pegler
Here's his article on the Freedom Riders, with photos.
Don't think of a maverick!
Lakoff again, on how to frame McCain.
John McCain will raise your taxes and
fail to make insurance affordable. (pdf) From Center for American Progress, a highly regarded think tank on health care and other economic policy.
Analyzing Obama's stump speech
An orchestrated four-part stumper, with no notes, no teleprompter
Palin kisses animal welfare bye bye
The pit bull ain't so bullish when it comes to animal welfare.
The Apostle of Alaska
The true, undistorted Sarah Palin.
The political mind
It's not about reality, it's about the cultural narratives and metaphors. A dead-on analysis of the conservative appeal.
Comparing Obama's/McCain's speeches
Obama: 86% about the country McCain: 50% about himself
Dooce lets loose.
And you thought *I* was mad about the Palin nomination.
Obama on animal welfare
Includes bills he's sponsored, and statements he's made. Good to know.
Uhh, how many Republicans does it take
to recognize Walter Reed Army Hospital? Weird.
More fact checking of Palin's speech
Basically, that whole speech was a lie.
Robert Reich
On what the vetting process involves.
Why did Sarah Palin cut funding for pregnant teens?
Especially when Alaska is swimming in oil revenue?
Factchecking Palin
Slashing special needs education? That's reform?
"I'm Barack Obama
and I have two dads." A moment for the history books.
Rhapsody in Blue
From a Republican?
Charles Barkley
Gotta love him.
Obama's answers to the science
questions you've been dying to ask. Nerd alert!
McCain hires architect of 2000 black baby slander
Supposedly so he can accuse Obama of fathering a black child.

May 16, 2008