Joe is a digital media specialist who has the seldom-used power of bringing party conversations to a record-scratching halt by mentioning that he has a Ph.D. in philosophy. Where he once wrote about just war theory and ethics for audiences that numbered well into the double digits, he now knows all about web content strategy and enterprise productivity software, courtesy of his job as Manager of All Things Internet at the Congressional Budget Office. In between writing philosophy papers no one read and learning the ins-and-outs of Drupal, Joe was a staff writer at FactCheck.org, where he was able to verify first hand that the President does in fact have a real, live birth certificate. In his spare time, Joe enjoys hiking, reading and/or watching science fiction, hanging out in coffee shops, cooking, running, sipping bourbon, giving a fuck about Oxford commas, and writing about himself in the third-person.