Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York.
She writes the Green Lantern environmental column, which runs every week on Slate and in the
Washington Post. She's also a contributing writer at Slate's new women's site, DoubleX.
She was recently heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation, talking to the nation about desis and spelling bees.
Read her front-page story for the International Herald Tribune about the Icelandic
volcano, a missing mother, and the power of social networking.
Join her as she ponders the rise of South Asians on primetime for Slate.
Some other recent(ish) favorites:
Desperate unmarried ladies
Alien boobs
Vampiric cell phones
Forgotten environmental disasters
Green ablutions
Dubious Asian fetishes
Planet-hosing carwashes
Spastic spelling girls
White supremacist taxonomies
Earth-destroying cheeseburgers
Illegal boogers
Global motherf*ckers
Tree-humpers
Sexy vegetarians
Presidential PCs
Mass turkey breeding
Illegal hand sanitizers
Funky chickens
Excessive water drinkers
Reborn Scientologists
Unrepentant a cappella singers
Slacker employees
Energetic octogenarians
Republican shopping sprees (more here and here)