Barack Obama - Change Can Happen!
 
Obama '08
Black Friday: deals cause total carnage
headline »
Sun, 30/11/08 – 23:09 | Comments

When I was younger I worked retail, and I remember dreading the holiday season; we’d be completely busy, and customers were never ruder.  I’ve seen ads poking fun at rabid crowds trying to break down doors before stores open to get the latest deals around the holidays, and it’s always some comment about how the [...]

Read the full story »
art

geek

howto

music

politics

Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: St. Louis

A rural county pining for a racist past
Tuesday, 28 Oct, 2008 – 22:14 | Comments
A rural county pining for a racist past

With all the polls it feels like there’s been a sea change in how America sees race, or maybe not. Maybe it’s W’s 22% approval rating skewing the numbers, because there are obvious still some serious misconceptions and racism playing big in the election. Interviews in the ‘bootheal’ region of Missouri (only a few [...]

Volunteering for change
Thursday, 25 Sep, 2008 – 22:27 | Comments
Volunteering for change

This afternoon I volunteered at the local field office in South St. Louis for Barack Obama. When I got there there was a flurry of activity, and I could tell people were there because they wanted to be. As we waited for others to show up to get started, I saw a pile [...]

Commentary: AB sold to InBev
Saturday, 19 Jul, 2008 – 13:07 | Comments
Commentary: AB sold to InBev

NOTE: As a St. Louis native, I was asked to comment on the sale of local St. Louis brewer Anheuser-Busch to European beverage conglomerate InBev. The following are my comments from the thread.

A couple of things here, AB has been a big STL employer for years sure, but just because they’re big doesn’t mean [...]