Alex Pasternack is a freelance journalist specializing in politics, culture and the environment. He has written for Time, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Far Eastern Economic Review, Paper, The New York Observer, Huffington Post and TreeHugger.com, among others, and can be found at alexpasternack.com.
When Joe Biden ventured to a Syracuse elementary school Sunday, he spoke with characteristic, um, candor about how long he’d thought about being vice president (not long), whether his dog was smarter than Obama’s, and how he’d fare in a game of Oval Office basketball.
