2008 was the year of living hormonally, the year of the prolonged and revisted adolescence. As 2007 wound down, clues were present. Voices were breaking, hairs were sprouting, pimples were erupting, rumor has it Norman Solomon finally got his first period. It was all so intense and heady, the 'kids'...

BREAKING: CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 44TH PRESIDENT As we close out 2008, we're taking a moment to briefly revisit some of the articles that we published on Austinist this year. Whether poignant, sad, hilarious, or downright ludicrous, many of these stories probably affected your lives to some extent. C...

12/30/08 The "Bush Effect" - Hopefully for a Third and LAST Time By Mary Lyon Third time's a charm, maybe? I've compiled three of these lists now. In 2006, I issued the first one, looking back on everything George W. Bush has adversely affected since he first arrived in the Oval Office. Just a damag...

2008 was a very memorable year, featuring one of the most unforgettable presidential campaigns in history. But with the New Year quickly approaching, and the Bush Years coming to an end, I'd like to take a moment to focus on the things that happened over the last twelve months that I'd love to forge...

About a month ago, I observed at dinner at my parents' that there hadn't been many presidential sons in the White House in my lifetime, but lots of presidential daughters: Tricia and Julie Nixon (whose father resigned three months after I was born), Susan Ford (whose three older brothers were adults...

this post took a lot longer to spit out than i expected given the happenings over the past week: last friday night, i started again to have one of those wretched dates with myself by starting at happy hour with my two coworkers and drinking red wine on tap and deciding to drive to the most insanely-...

Sean Hannity marks 2008 as the year journalism died. But it could just as easily be the year journalism felt a thrill going up its leg. That Chris Matthews announcement in February, that a Barack Obama speech caused him a mild ecstasy, represented the everyday "mainstream" media view. Repo...

The year 2008 was politically the most exciting and unusual in a generation. It hosted a long, divisive and drama filled campaign season that featured the rapid rise and fall of Rudy Guiliani, Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee, the unlikely rise of John McCain and Barack Obama, and the eventual bitter...

2008 might have been a lousy year for the business end of the NY Times, but when it comes to editorial bias and stupidity, it was a banner year. But then again I am a little prejudiced since the past year was a year when Ed Lasky and I were singled out as crazy right wing bloggers doing our best to ...

In August when John McCain selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, with the exception of Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes who still had pheromone up their nostrils from the lunch they had with Sarah in 2007 when the cruise ship on which they were riding stopped in at Juneau, no one ...