Beth Ingalls

Beth Ingalls
Location
California,
Birthday
October 30
Bio
Writer, editor, columnist, producer, parent, activist, former elected official and lifelong Deadhead. I mainly write about politics, pop culture & tech, but my dream is to work with David Simon on any of his projects. I'm pretty sure he doesn't read this blog, so if you know him please have his people get with my people. Oh yeah - and I've got a killer memoir inside of me that's gonna win a pulitzer prize someday.

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JUNE 29, 2011 12:55PM

Bachmann, Angle, Palin: Triumvirate of Tea Party Idiocracy

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With supporters like these, who needs detractors?

I normally try to be supportive of other women in politics in spite of their party or positions since I was once in politics myself. Like Sarah Palin, I'm a former small town mayor. As far as commonalities with her, the bus st

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JUNE 21, 2011 1:14PM

Shits & Giggles from an Emerging Nevada Wonkette

Breaking News: I've dipped my toe into the murky wading pool of Nevada state politics and I'm proud to report I survived covering my first major event - a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee.

You see, I'm working hard to get myself up to speed on the issues and theRead full post »

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MAY 25, 2011 11:18AM

My (Potentially) Life Altering Party Foul

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My house was the local hippie crash pad and I liked it that way. Conveniently located near the corner of 17th St. and Arapahoe in Boulder, it was close to campus, a quick hop to the downtown mall and two short blocks away from Liquor Mart. Whether you were headed/Read full post »

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MAY 24, 2011 9:47AM

Nobody Rides for Free: The True Cost of Social Media

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A few years back I posted a Facebook update declaring my growing annoyance with the “find singles near you” ads that seemed to be multiplying daily on the right side of my profile page. One of my self-righteous “friends” commented immediately: “Beth, you have noRead full post »

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OCTOBER 12, 2009 3:18PM

What's In A Name? Not Much, Just My Whole Identity

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Here’s a dilemna most men never have. What to call themselves.

I had my birth name/maiden name for roughly 24 years. Then I took my first husband’s name. When we divorced and I took my old name back as fast as I could.

Then I got married again and took… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 4:31PM

The Rachel Zoe Project: Dangerous & Coercive "Pop"aganda

I'm here today to say, unabashedly, that the Rachel Zoe Project is the worst thing that has ever happened to TV and possibly to western civilization. Her sudden appearance and meteoric rise as the go-to stylist to the stars is a solid indication that we may be destined to witness the d… Read full post »

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AUGUST 4, 2009 12:02PM

Defending Our Unalienable Right to Dry

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“Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines"

 Claude McKay

 

The summer of 1968 in Ohio was stifling hot and seemed to last forever… Read full post »

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JULY 30, 2009 6:09PM

Adrian Grenier, Tequila Shots & Assholes

 

There we sat in the Wanderlust Festival VIP lounge looking out at the majestic peaks of Squaw Valley rising around us, sipping cold beer and chillin' for a bit when all of the sudden in walks Adrian Grenier.

Adrian Grenier 

If you don't know who Grenier is, you're probably a little… Read full post »

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JULY 21, 2009 4:55PM

New Syndrome "Attention Deficit (News) Disorder" Rampant

Last night I watched the re-broadcast of Walter Cronkite's historic coverage of the moon landing in 1969 and became blubberingly nostalgic for the technologically uncluttered days of my youth. The simplicity of a man sitting at a desk reporting the news while looking straight into the camera is… Read full post »

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JUNE 25, 2009 6:47PM

RIP M.J. Archive Video Classic

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JUNE 22, 2009 6:56PM

White Neo-Con Rappers on Fox!

"I got sumtin' to say, and I need the world to hear it. I'm a lyricologist. I can rap about anything. Shrink, shrink. Blinkity-blink. Tried to make me think. Wanna go to my sink. And vomit. Clean it up wit' Comet. Earth is my planet. See? I'm the shiznit. "

Said… Read full post »