election 2012
On the Road with Obama and Romney - Reelection
It's a little underwhelming, a re-election. We wake up and, give or take a few Senate seats, we're exactly where we were. Wednesday was a sunny day in Cincinnati, though I slept through most of it. I went out in the afternoon to buy the paper and pack...
On the Road with Obama and Romney: Ugliness in Ohio
Just when Obama came on stage, a bald white man began shouting from the balcony of the arena. Obama smiled and waved. He spoke again. The man started yelling again. Sheriff's deputies came to remove him. He hung onto the guardrail of the balcony he...
We Were Merely Freshmen: Classmates Recall Mitt Romney’s Year at Stanford
One Friday in the spring of 1966, Mitt Romney, then a freshman at Stanford University, skipped the discussion section of his Western Civilization survey class. A sit-in against the Vietnam War was underway inside President Wallace Sterling's office...
The VICE Guide to Voting - Otherkin
The deciding day of the 2012 election draws near, and as a politically undecided man-dolphin, you're not sure where to cast your vote. Where do the candidates stand on the right to life for demonkin? It's a complicated world, and you may have a fake...
Mitt Romney: Safety Patrol Captain
It’s no PT 109, but the Safety Patrol Team at Vaughan Elementary School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan was where Captain Romney cut his teeth as a leader of men.
VICE Guide to Voting - Who’s Better for Crush Porn Enthusiasts?
Yes, jobs are important and national security has its place, but which of the two candidates will best meet the needs of those pornography fans that can only get off by watching a woman step on something?
Party Time!
For progressives, there was plenty to love about the Democratic National Convention. There was gay rightsing, shaming Republicans for failure with women, and Bill Clinton flamethrowing statistics like he was at Burning Man. But there was one troubling...
The Most Depressing Things in the Democratic Party Platform
The Democratic Party platform is mostly a list of problems that the Democrats would like to solve, but aren't currently solving. And holy crap are there a lot of problems that someone should probably do something about. Get worried, everyone.
The Republican Party of Texas Hates Everything
The Republican Party of Texas released their 2012 platform and basically took a shit on everyone who isn't a white Judeo-Christian who believes in killing every Mexican, brown person, or gay with their own constitutionally protected gun.
Rejected GOP Campaign Strategies
Gingrich wanted to make DJ Earworm’s mash-up of 2011 popular radio hits, “World Go Boom,” his answer to all questions.