Friday morning hangover.
It’s election Day! In Virginia! Seriously — early voting starts in Virginia today. (It starts in a number of states in the days just following.) Stirling and I are packing up the kids and heading South, assuming identities, establishing residency, voting, destroying evidence, heading back north, re-establishing real identities, voting again. That’s basically the shape of our next two months. Want to reach us? REALvirginiansforObama@aol.com.
But quickly before we hit the (Hampton) Road(s) a couple items to mention today:
* The guy who hacked Sarah Palin’s email got into it by guessing the answer to her “forgot your password?” question. Seriously. The answer: “Wasilia High.” Wrong guesses before he hit on the right one: Lock & load; Charlie Gibson; FurryCon; Life begins at conception; velveeta and Ritz crackers; martial law; salon selectives.
* Still not convinced the wars of the 21st Century will be about energy? The President of Russia is threatening to annex the Arctic for the oil. No shit. Seems like a good time to throw out one more plug for next Saturday’s “Green Jobs Now” day of action advocating a green “new deal” that’s not dependent on fossil fuels, or on President Palin shooting Vladimir Putin from a plane. Sign up! Do it!
* What would Edmund Burke eat? I thought this was a thoughtful take on Michael Pollan’s new book, which I haven’t read yet.
* Palin-McCain’s proposal for federal budget transparency in government already exists – Barack Obama passed it into law two years ago. Ooops!
More later today - Sandy has promised me some non-election related literary gossip omfg and Dinelle is checking back in with some stunning developments on the floating trash heap that’s going to kill us all or at least make us all choke on plastic. Lastly if you’re new to town (and we had some new visitors yesterday) please keep coming back! Sign up for our RSS feed, link us, add your ideas in the comments. Click on an ad maybe? Someone? Hellooooo. Welcome to Pinko.
About The Author - Ben Wyskida is a writer, activist, conscientious hedonist and political communications strategist living in Brooklyn. - Visit Ben's site.
This is why I don’t have a yahoo account anymore.
the answer to my question is SARAH PALIN