If you hadn’t heard, French Fries are now Freedom Fries and Iowa Voice is now the Liberty Pundit.
And I’m not really accusing Brian and our other conservative friends at that site of hating our state, but come on.  You blog about national politics, and you think having Iowa in your name is a bad thing [...]

And now, the post wherein I undermine whatever credibility I might have left by admitting that I watch the Hallmark Channel:
Yes, from midnight to 2AM central time each night, I allow the soothing action sequences and overt Republican undertones of the mediocre show Walker, Texas Ranger to lull me to sleep. It’s a guilty [...]

Because of what I do, I get asked a lot about how the “MSM” — I’ll call it the “traditional media” — approaches blogs in Iowa. Because I think that over the past few months I’ve developed an interesting answer to the question, and because at cocktail parties I am not always as articulate [...]

I’ll be on The Rachel Maddow Show live tonight at 6:30 eastern/5:30 central to give my take on tomorrow’s Ames Straw Poll with guest-host Isaac-Davy Aronson. If you are in Iowa, you can’t listen on the airwaves, but you can listen here.

Big, important YearlyKos info-dump is forthcoming, I think.  Until I get that up, I thought it might be interesting to talk a bit about the differences between seeing a candidate in Iowa and seeing a candidate at a progressive bloggers’ convention.  This was going to be long and developed, but it turned out that there [...]

I’m a professional blogger now. I was hired in May by the Center for Independent Media to be their State Coordinator for Iowa. That makes me the Managing Editor of Iowa Independent, the newest, awesomest progressive political web site in that great state.
So I’m living in Des Moines, hanging out in my apartment, [...]

I am a deadbeat blogger. It’s sometimes embarassing, but so is being an active blogger, so I get over it.
That said, this blog is going to get fresh content at least about once a week from now on. It might not be really creative, awe-inspiring content, but it will be content. I’ll [...]