Hello, Juicers. (Or should I call you Loonies?)
Doug J has, in his menschness, asked me if I’d be willing to guest blog hereabouts in his absence. I have accepted the offer with all of the reserve and calm of Rush Limbaugh at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Balloon Juice has long been one of my absolute favorite online haunts — in fact, I’ve been known to comment on a post here and there — and I still consider being on the blog roll one of my finer journalistic achievements. So, again, let me thank Mr. J and express what a thrill it is to share space with John, Anne, ABL, Freddie, Dennis, Sarah, and everyone else on the far-right of your screen.
I won’t saddle you with a bunch of my bio, but in the interest of providing some sense of who I am: I’m a 20something graduate of an Eastern liberal arts college nurturing a lifelong fascination with politics (in forms both highbrow and low) and a special interest in how economic inequality and questions of human dignity are changing America’s politics. Everything I write can be found at my personal blog; but I’ve also been something of the in-house liberal at The League for a bit more than a year now, freelance when I can, and tweet entirely too much. I hesitate to place myself anywhere on those axes that define the left-blogosphere (Obot vs. Firebagger, for example) but I will say that I voted for Obama in 2008 and, despite the abominable Electoral College rendering my vote all but meaningless, will probably do so again this November.
Most importantly, however, I am a roommate of one Calamity Jane
and, when I visit the fam’, I am the slavish devotee of Mayzie (top) and Penny (bottom)
Now with all that said, let’s get started!