DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
We here at Break Out The Oreos are good New Yorkers–we boo our Republican mayors, salivate over sexy corruption scandals, and remain moderately aware of our hockey team (go fuck yourselves, Islanders). So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody that we quickly caught this lovely culmination of the aforementioned trifecta: GOP Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin being booed during the ceremonial puck drop at last night’s Rangers-Flyers game in Philadelphia. The unbeaten Rangers spoiled Philly’s home opener by going up 4-0 by the end of the first period, but what was really most interesting was the response to the Alaskan governor’s first public appearance since the news of her “abuses of power” broke. Take a look for yourself:
Yowza! America’s favorite hockey mom being booed by an arena full of “Joe Six-Pack” hockey fans? Could it get any worse? Only if Alaskan First Daughter and soon-to-be-mother Bristol Palin is confirmed to be the singer in the following video:
Big tip to The Centrist Voice for alerting us to the Palin brouhaha. In other sports news, is there any doubt that a Phillies-Red Sox World Series would be the worst possible thing for a post-9/11 America?
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
Run away and panic! A mysterious disease is spreading across our nation’s college campuses and shall soon be consuming us all! And no, this isn’t an episode of Fringe, though we here at Break Out The Oreos must admit to being partial to any and all television shows detailing the supernatural terrorism of the city and inhabitants of Boston.
No, this little shindig is going down on the other side of the country at the sunny University of Southern California, the student body of which is rapidly discovering the concept of “Facebook activism” that we here in the Ivy League know and love (to be fair, they did have a perhaps more specific type of armchair advocacy last year). Break Out The Oreos had a recent conversation about the soon-to-be pandemic with Elise Nakamura, one of Devon’s high school classmates (and soon-to-be gastrointestinal zombie?) currently on the ground at USC.
After the jump, that is. Read More
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
We know, we know, we know–we’re sorry we haven’t been publishing! Turns out this whole school thing is actually kind of time-consuming at times.
To assuage your hunger and our guilt, we will do some shameless promotion from somebody else (for a change). Enjoy!
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
That’s right, folks! We’re going to be attempting our very first liveblogging experiment during tonight’s ServiceNation event at Columbia University featuring Democratic and Republican Presidential Nominees Barack Obama and John McCain (respectively). IvyGate and Bwog have collectively provided more than enough pre-event hype that you could possibly desire, so we’re going to hold off to the actual event, which we will begin liveblogging at 6:45pm Eastern Standard Time. Wish us luck and tune in!
EDIT: No luck, folks. The wireless is cutting out on us. We’ll postgame at about 8:30PM EST. Sorry!
EDIT AGAIN: It’s working! Hopefully it’ll keep working…
EDIT YET AGAIN: We’ve got our complete transcript! Check it out after the jump: Read More
DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
Welcome back, everybody! And yes, we know that we’re a week and change late on returning from our hiatus, but things were kind of busy. We hope you’ll forgive us, and, in compensation, would like to treat you to something of a “rant roundup”–that is, a series of crazy people saying crazy things in our Oreosphere (copyright pending).
Sandra Singh Loh, an embittered pro-Hillary public education advocate who is self-admittedly “unstable” and “[does her] research by erratically Googling from home,” has been deemed worthy of the New York Times’ webspace at their Education Watch blog. In her most recent entry, helpfully titled “The Rantings of a P.T.A. Mom,” Ms. Singh Loh, reportedly a liberal and a democrat, blasts Barack and Michelle Obama for sending their children to private school and not to a public school on Chicago’s south side. She then accuses all educated, middle class parents who send their kids to private school of “withdraw[ing], with nary a ripple, into their whispery private enclaves.”
Devon get preachy as hell over another hissy-fitting Hillary holdout, after the jump: Read More
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