Political commentary, snarky pseudo-journalism, satire, and random adventures from your friend at shelbinator.com. You might have seen some of my videos under the old username "shighsmi," but people had too much trouble pronouncing that mumbo jumbo.

Some videos will be cross-posted from live-streaming websites Qik.com and Flixwagon.com. The quality of those might not be so hot but it's live-streamed from the field on my Nokia N95, so cut me some slack.

Aerospace engineer, burned out grad student, Democratic communications operative. Now I'm a citizen journalist, as they say, reporting for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08 after a tour with Huffington Post's Off the Bus.