Welcome, distinguished ladies and gents, and all others besides. My name is Gina Leigh. I am an experimental theatre artist and puppeteer out of Philly. Apparently I am Receiving Me?’s first female blogger, the pioneering bloggerette, the woman wordslinger around here. So I’m gonna start, appropriately enough… [continue]

Gentlemen, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. We just got our derrieres punted good, and it looks like the old pay back leg is winding up for another round. We don’t do something soon, we’re all gonna be standing around too sore to sit.

We all know what happened over the last eight years… The damned … [continue]

President Barack Obama made some very large promises during his first speech to a joint session of Congress. For those viewers worried that overhauling healthcare, reversing the economy, saving education, fixing the auto industry, reestablishing the integrity of banks and customer access to loans, and ending two wars (while increasing troops and paying everyone involved a lot more) wasn’t enough, … [continue]

President Obama is working way too hard. Honestly it’s making the rest of us look bad. I just wish he understood how it feels to get out of bed at noon, flip open the paper, and see a picture of him signing stuff. Nobody ever asks me to sign anything; least not since my credit card got … [continue]

As we enter the closing days of what has become a controversial pre-administration the time come to take history’s first passing glance at what has just transpired. On November fourth, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama won the national election. It’s hard to believe, but a child born on that day would already be almost three months old, and … [continue]

When voters were asked to name the most important issue in the 2008 Election, they lied– they chose “the economy”. Apparently “electing the first African-American president,” “electing an inspirational president,” and “electing an intelligent president” were all unacceptable answers. I suppose hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Grant Park to cheer “Yes, we can!” with tears rolling down their … [continue]

In more civil and banal times, I could get behind the President choosing a cabinet to promote stability and continuity, or for simple political reasons.  This is no time for Carter-ian prudence, though.  America voted for change.  America gave Obama the mandate to bring the motherfuckin’ ruckus.

The voters, or maybe the fates themselves, have already decided how to … [continue]

The election is well over and done with.  Gracious was the loser in defeat; magnanimous the winner in victory.  As ever, the wheel of history turns and so we look toward a new day, a new administration, while behind us, possibly stuck in a ditch, is history’s by-blow, the man who would be president had a … [continue]

Washington DC- With a severe economic crisis and two on going wars, President-elect Barack Obama will, from the first day of his administration, face challenges as great as any incoming president has since the end of the second world war.  In light of this, Senator Obama has already begun to move towards establishing his administration. 

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Dubuque, Iowa. Millions of white voters have been disenfranchised due to a faulty “Bradley Effect.” All across America, the cries of injustice can be heard. Here in a small diner famous for it’s lemon meringue pie, I spoke to Dubuque’s shocked residents.

Henry Smith worked at the local aluminum extruding plant until it’s doors … [continue]