I don’t think I’m ever going to stop loving elections. It’s what happens when you grow up in a polling place. Even though my house hasn’t been a polling place for years, every night before an election I get a little tingly, thinking of the setup. Bringing in the polling booths, unfolding their legs, making …
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Contentious Xylophones
Hank Sims at The Journal: The Vote in the Hills Time moves more slowly up in the hills around northern and eastern Humboldt County, and political campaigns run more quietly. s.e. smith at The Sydney Morning Herald: Body blows to self-esteem The discussion about body image is dominated by two ideas; first, that all people …
Trilling Crullers
Matt Smith at SF Weekly: The city needs to call 911 on emergency dispatchers “Jane Doe” is the pseudonym of a 911 dispatch employee who claims she was punished for acting as a whistle-blower, purportedly seeking to expose alleged time-card fraud, workplace bullying, cyber-snooping, goldbricking, and other misconduct where timely emergency response might have been …
Bloated Chaperones
Adam Sobsey at Indyweek: Walking in black women’s footsteps: Two important new histories of the Civil Rights movement (Content note: rape) Little’s case was a tough one. For one thing, African-American women had been victimized for centuries by white sexual violence in the South, but fear of reprisal kept most crimes from being reported, let …
Sour Doughnuts
Joel McNally at Shepard Express: Swooning for the Rich A lot of totally irrational forces seem to be swirling around the midterm elections this year. Alex Baca at Washington City Paper: Media Matters Wants You to Drop Fox Like It’s Hot Conservative-correcting non-profit Media Matters for America wants you to “Drop Fox”—and they’re launching their …
