Friday's Quirky Newsy Bits

This is why I constantly bang the drum about Americans NEED to PARTICIPATE in their own electoral process.

Adds a new spin to the phrase "EVERYTHING Goes!"

John Cameron Swayze on Global Warming

An innovative way to smuggle drugs goes bust.

The rhyme is NOT "a gherkin a day...".

Gratuitous plug for Top Gear. This guy is irrepressible. Funny, obnoxious, loud. I adore him.

and lastly...

Go Granny! I knew all those Agatha Christie novels would come in handy some day!


Quote of the day:
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber

Speaking of Electoral Process...

I received the following email from MoveOn.org yesterday:

Dear MoveOn member,

Just yesterday, the Los Angeles Times ran a column talking about how hard it can be to connect with presidential hopefuls face to face.1 Grueling travel schedules, an imbalanced primary system, and a premium on media appearances mean dwindling time for candidates to talk with—and listen to—voters. But we're turning that dynamic on its head.

Tuesday, April 10th, MoveOn is partnering with Air America Radio to bring you our first ever Virtual Town Hall meeting with the '08 presidential candidates. (The full list of candidates invited to attend is below.) The topic is Iraq, and we want you to have a front row seat.

You can join other members of your community and tune in via the Internet to hear the top candidates answer questions chosen by MoveOn members. Afterward, you'll have a chance to discuss what you heard, and then vote by email on who will do the best job of bringing our troops home.

I signed up for Oakland hosted event this coming Tuesday night. I also said I'd bring my laptop so we can have more people online from the party. I hope to gods he has wireless. I guess I'd better go buy me a damn wireless card, huh!

If you're not a member of MoveOn.org or if you are and your curious about this event, I encourage you to hit their website and look for a location near you to participate or host your own party!

Oh Geeze!!

No, I did not receive one of these:

Some Berkeley residents found a poster on their doorsteps this week from a white supremacist group calling for skinhead "death squads" to take up arms in an "Aryan people's insurgency."

This part REALLY got me!:

Greg Withrow, leader of the group promoting the pamphlets, said Berkeley was targeted because "people there enjoy flying their little Communist flags."