Kase Wickman is a freelance journalist and epic nerd from Oregon. She contributes regularly to Air America Media, and her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Daily Free Press, The Houston Chronicle, The Bangor Daily News, The Quincy Patriot Ledger and on PoliticsDaily.com. She is a senior at Boston University studying journalism and political science. If she watches too many episodes of The West Wing in one sitting, she confuses it with reality.

Blog Entries by Kase Wickman

Dear GOP: Watch Your AstroTurf, We're On to You

10 Comments | Posted August 20, 2009 | 11:02 AM (EST)


Dear Republicans: It's awesome that you've caught up to this whole newfangled Internet craze, but what's with the fixation on that late-60s invention that we all know and have skinned our knees on? That's right: AstroTurf. AstroTurfing is the plastic sensation that's sweeping the GOP nation, and,...

Read Post

Obama Talking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth on DOMA

16 Comments | Posted August 18, 2009 | 04:24 PM (EST)


President Obama threw a bone Monday to the LGBT activists he first pissed off in June by filing a brief arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act is both constitutional and a defense against incest and pedophilia. The concession took the form of a new brief in...

Read Post

Iran Elections: Quit Turning Your Twitter Avatars Green and Do Something

23 Comments | Posted June 23, 2009 | 05:30 PM (EST)


If you've been on the Internet in the last week and a half, you've know: Green is the hot new color. Twitter avatars, Facebook profile pictures, Web site logos...Iran's Sea of Green has taken over the Internet. It's a well-intentioned fad, but a fad nonetheless, and it's time for...

Read Post

Starbucks Offers Better Same-Sex Medical Benefits Than Obama

40 Comments | Posted June 18, 2009 | 01:23 PM (EST)


Originally posted at Air America Media.


What's the difference between an 18-year-old girl slinging lattes 30 hours a week at Starbucks for $5 an hour and a middle-aged man who has put in years behind a desk working for their country? Well, other than a...

Read Post

The Iranian Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- It'll Be Twittered

9 Comments | Posted June 16, 2009 | 05:30 PM (EST)


As protests of Friday's Iranian election and the victory proclamation by incumbent President Ahmadinejad rolls on for another day, one thing has become abundantly clear: tomorrow's newspaper is too late. Now that press have been all but escorted out of Iran, the world's news is coming minute-by-minute from the little...

Read Post