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12 Mar 2024

How I Fell In Love With Oakland’s Funktown

When I first figured out that San Francisco wasn’t for me, I didn’t know where I was going to end up. I had initially hoped that I would return to The Laurel, a neighborhood that straddles the line between East Oakland and the Lower Hills where I spent a long

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
25 Jul 2023

How Buddha Saved An Oakland Neighborhood From Crime

Back in 2009, a dude who lived on a block with a lot of illegal dumping decided to do something about it. What did he do? He got a Buddha statue. People who may not be familiar with the Clinton (or Funktown, or East Lake or Little Saigon depending on

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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21 Dec 2021

Fix Inequality or Get Robbed? The Connection Between Crime and Poverty

The ‘90s are back, and I don’t mean that in a good way. While every one of us is somewhat guilty of being nostalgic for the days when Green Day made good music or when Chumbwamba was getting knocked down only to triumphantly get back up again, I guarantee we

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03 Jan 2019

Trump Is A Skilled Communicator to a Select Audience

I never hear Trump say to his audience, “You need to be
more tolerant, compassionate, benevolent, kinder, act with integrity, better educated, and improve yourself”.

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11 Nov 2016

An Apology from a Straight Middle-Class White Man

Let me first say I did not vote for Trump, I voted for the future of America by casting my ballot for Hillary Clinton. Who I am might appeal to you but my beliefs, worries, angst and fight might not. I’m white, born a man, straight (although I love all

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10 Nov 2016

5 Things to Do with Your Feminine Rage for Good

A few weeks ago, I wrote 5 Things You Can Do with Your Feminine Rage. It was, in its way, meant to skirt the line between humor and reality. I did feel Feminine Rage, quite regularly, and not just in regards to the election season or the Stanford rape case

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20 Oct 2016

The Final Prez Debate: A Vegas Threesome

Three is the magic number. The third Presidential debate was everything Goldilocks was looking for, and I don’t mean Trump. Although I’m pretty sure he thinks it was. All disjointed delusional billionaires aside, this debate was perfect for anyone who had seen all three or just this one. The first

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22 Sep 2016

Hillary Clinton Does Between Two Ferns w/ Zach Galifianakis

If you haven’t watched the “Between Two Ferns” series with interviewer Zach Galifianakis, you’re missing out on perhaps the funniest albiet most awkward interview formats ever filmed.  Zack interviews nearly every A list actor at the Oscars one year, he f*cks with the biggest popstars like Justin Beiber and even the leader

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