Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York.
She writes the Green Lantern column at Slate every Tuesday,
and the Explainer column every Thursday.
She's also a contributing writer at Slate's new women's site, Double XX.
She was recently heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation, talking to the nation about desis and spelling bees.
Some favorites:
Spastic spelling girls
Green sugars
White supremacist taxonomies
Earth-destroying cheeseburgers
Illegal boogers
Dirty butts
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)
Republican hairdos (sound)