Posts tagged 'democracy'

I am Time’s Person of the Year, finally

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At 29, I’ve lived longer than Jimi Hedrix, James Dean, and Kurt Cobain. I had almost given up on celebrity, but then I go and get named Time Magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year. All I can say, “It’s about frickin’ time.”

Bush makes me proud to be an American

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I’ve never really thought of myself as a nationalist. Sure, the United States of America has been good to me, but I’ve avoided any jingoism over my 29 years. It wasn’t until yesterday when our president signed into law legislation that allows torture and eliminates habeas corpus that I realized how much I loved our [...]