Mike Abu
Making It a Pain in the Ass to Vote Is the American Way
When you see all the troubles at the polls on today—the long lines, the people being turned away, the Rick Scott’s of the system refusing to budge on helping voter’s cast their ballots—don’t be surprised. That's just how we do it in the Land of the...
Rocky Anderson Knows Mitt Romney Well and Thinks He Has No Integrity
Ross "Rocky" Anderson is the former mayor of Salt Lake City who worked with Mitt Romney during the 2002 Winter Olympics. He's running for president as a candidate of the Justice Party, which he created to campaign on a platform of social justice. We...
Obamacare or Not: The Future of HIV/AIDS Care
After the Supreme Court held up Obamacare in June, opponents of the law invested their hopes in this Tuesday’s presidential election. If elected, Mitt Romney has every intention to repeal the legislation. For people living with HIV/AIDS, the stakes...
Horses, Bayonets, and the Sinking of Our Political Battleship at the Third Presidential Debate
The final debate lacked the novelty of the first debate, the antagonisms of the second debate, and Joe Biden’s laugh from the vice presidential debate. Everybody wanted to see it come to an end. We were ready to rip the Band-Aid off, even if a chunk of...
Obama May Have Won the Debate, But Mitt's Got a Binder Full of Bitches
I decided the best place to watch the showdown was at a bar appropriately named the Lost Love Lounge. It’s the type of place you could feel comfortable drinking away your sorrows in peace, at least until they come back around at 2 AM with a vengeance...
Biden, What the Fuck Was So Funny Last Night? Oh Yeah, Paul Ryan
The debates are like watching two jocks compete for a drunken floozy. Both guys seem like assholes, and you get the feeling that the girl deserves whichever chump she chooses. The rest of us are left lonely in the bleachers with stale popcorn and a...
Revisiting Paul Ryan's Crazy-Ass Path to Prosperity Plan
The Ryan Plan is a woefully inadequate budget proposal. It is intellectually insulting, inherently flawed, and economically inept. Anyone who disagrees is either viewing it through ideological lenses or has no idea what is going on in the first place.
Mitt Romney Lost Last Night, at Least That's What They Think in New Orleans
I watched last night's debate at a dive bar in New Orleans. People were grumbling, “Fuck this guy,” and tossing napkins at Romney on the screen.