move along.

Michelle Obama Under Fire


I cannot tell you how angry this makes me.

And you know what line really set me off? Amnau Eele’s assertion, “This was our moment.”

THIS WHOLE ELECTION WAS YOUR MOMENT. This whole election was AMERICA’S moment. For every race and every creed.

And I suppose if she chose black designers she would then be criticized for not being diverse?

Stop putting this poor woman under fire for her clothes. Why does no one mention the fact that she’s an Ivy League graduate? Her actual attributes - her intelligence, her poise, her capabilities - are all glazed over because of a designer choice.

I’m so aggravated right now that I can’t even type an intelligible sentence.

This isn’t the Oscars. It’s the fucking inauguration. The United States just nominated their first African American president and you’re asking why the designer of the first lady’s duds wasn’t black.

Someone please give these people something sturdy so they can get a grip.

brillz.

And to revert back to my fashion ways (but also keeping with current events!):

A nifty billboard

political me.

Ok, so I know that I'm pretty uninformed when it comes to politics. To me, this makes me ignorant. I live in this country, after all, don't I?

I never cared about politics at all. My whole reasoning is that they're all crooked bastards and if there's one thing on this planet that I cannot stand it's an indecent human being. Why should I pay attention to the mud-slinging and promise breaking, just to aggravate myself?

Because I'm alive. Because I'm growing up and I'm seeing that I do have to deal with these issues that have been doted upon for years, but that I simply never saw fit to give a shit about until I was off my parents health care plan and was part of the actual work force.

I floated along in my own world, telling myself that I could get by without really knowing politics.

Now I see, as an aspiring journalist and American in general, I can't.

I had a talk with my friend Ted recently, who is really into politics. He helped me figure out an issue that I think I'm going to be most passionate about: civil rights.

I'm the kind of person who cries equality all the time. I didn't realize that I could actually be applying my staunchness and characterisitc trait of fighting for other people in a political realm.

So here I am. I'm going to take a stand.

I'm still not educated about things enough to sit here and dither on about some issue or another. I'm going to take the time, every day, to browse the blogs and read the papers and focus on the political things, not just the fashion and the crosswords.

So, to start my political foray, here is a link to a blog that was linked to on instapundit.com. I like it because it's pretty simple and it uses something I'm really familiar with (shitty boyfriends) to talk about President Obama.

I get a little lost at the bilateral and such part, but hey - this is a learning process. Steady as we go.


Bad Boyfriends