Activism and Hot Friends

I hope to eventually be largely responsible for devastatingly attractive children.

Daniel and Kristin are two people with whom I played matchmaker some time ago. Their relationship has budded nicely, I think, and they'll both be very uncomfortable that I injected this information into the unpredictably visible medium of the Internet. But so things go. I'm happy about it and decided to say something.

They recently had a bunch of modeling pictures done for free (a photographer-friend wanted some practice), and the results are so hot they're almost a joke. I would link to some examples, but Daniel's busy photoshopping some of his favorites, and hasn't posted any of them online.

So, yeah, anyway. There's that.

AND, I recently discovered a new website called "The People Decide." Check it out. You can either Google it, or click here. The concept of the website is to get people to be more aware of what kinds of things Congress is doing. What bills they're voting on, and how all of the different representatives in each state are voting. The ultimate goal is to eventually establish whether or not the elected officials of the country are actually representing their constituents.

Of course, the only way this site will ever reach its full potential is if an ENORMOUS number of people start to utilize it. There are a good number already, but it's still new, and it looks as though the number of subscribers is still the barest fraction of what it really needs to be. So I heartily, strongly, actively suggest that you visit the site and look around. Sign up. Vote. It's pretty quick, extremely easy, and definitely qualifies as good citizenship.

Most emphatically, I mean that last part. So many of us are at least concerned about the state of the country, the problems we face domestically and internationally, and the bloated and corrupt government. But what can we do? That's always the concluding, despairing question--posed both by the people at the wrong end of my verbose political diatribes, and myself, at the end of the day.

To get informed is an important and necessary start. It's something in place of the typical nothing that we do as modern, lethargic, ignorant, seemingly helpless citizens of this country. But it's not enough. We must be ACTIVE. We've got to vote, obviously, and we've got to be informed enough to do so. But what about the other three hundred and sixty four days out of the year? Do this. Of course there are other ways to get involved, but that website could be one of the simplest, quickest, and most effective ways of becoming politically active.

Clearly, the title of this post vs. it's contents were a little backward, but oh well. If that bothers you a lot, you'll hate me for this--here's something that wasn't even mentioned in the title:

Another plug for my "dumber" blog! You should visit it (Lasers, Bagels, and Other Abstractions), and click on only one of the links. Please trust me, and ONLY CLICK ON ONE OF THE LINKS you find there.

Okgoodbyenow.