Henry Pickavet

26
Aug

Harriet Tubman at the DNC

I was a tad nervous when Hillary Clinton started talking tonight. Would she stand up there on a stage during
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26
Aug

Cricket in Brisbane

Summer in Australia means many things, but I soon found out after arriving last December that one of the biggest
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22
Aug

It's Biden

I was watching the mind-numbing four o'clock hour of the last day of the Olympics when an Oliver
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21
Aug

The Story of The Hopping Blog

It's a short one. Regular readers will notice that I have changed my blogging platform a couple of
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19
Aug

From VP Candidate to 'Prick'

The The Associated Press posted a story this morning on Barack Obama's upcoming vice presidential pick. There'
19
Aug

Maddow to Light Your TV

The best news I've been met with upon waking up in a long-ass time. MSNBC is giving Rachel
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18
Aug

Advancing Fair Australia, or The Other National Anthem

It's weird for me to be watching the Olympics in Australia. That regular old pride I feel during
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17
Aug

Channel 7 Calls It 'Yum-Cha'

The other day, I wrote about a show that Channel 7 is broadcasting each day before its Olympic coverage starts.
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17
Aug

A Creative Write

This post is a bit late, but I wanted to follow up on my participation in last weekend's
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16
Aug

Make This Ad

From TPM: It's an amateur/independent pro-Obama, anti-McCain ad. There are a few elements -- tonal stuff --