blogging is for sissies.

so my buddy cindy issued a blogging challenge earlier this month. i didn't really accept, but... there she is, blogging her little ginger heart out.

what can i say? i'm trying to get into law school, people! and apparently no one reads posts about politics, because people don't read the news anymore, they just watch jon stewart. (pay no attention to the weeping behind the curtain.)

for now, i leave you with this:

Tall Ships

I'm not so good at blogging.

But I'm going to see the Tall Ships today in Duluth. Ever since I read C. S. Forester when I was a kid I've loved tall ships.


Eight of these beauties will sail into port today and tomorrow, and we have passes to climb aboard and take tours. (Unfortunately we're not sailing with them...)

I'll take pictures. :)

SALAMANDER TUNNELS.

So I'm watching the West Wing. Which is a great show, and interesting to me for a number of reasons. None of which are in this post.

A few weeks ago I watched the big block of cheese episode. Which contains this delightful clip:




Ah, me. A wolves-only highway. Good thing we don't actually do shit like that.

WAIT.

WE'RE BUILDING TUNNELS FOR SALAMANDERS.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

the constitution is free!

I'm working on something epic. EPIC. But you'll have to wait a bit longer to find out what it is. Or... I suppose you could just guess. That's cool too.

In the meantime, I just wanted to post a quick note about how to get a copy of the United States Constitution for FREE. On paper, I mean. It's all over the internet. But I love my pocket Constitution so much, I wish I had 300 more to hand out. Of course, mine's from the Girl Scouts, circa 1994, which makes it cooler than anyone else's.

(Mmmm. Thin mints.)

There are several different versions, and all are readily available. My second favorite is from the Heritage Foundation. All you have to do is follow this link and give them your address. You'll receive a pocket version in a couple weeks.

If you don't want the logo for a conservative think tank all over your copy, you can follow these links:

Constitution Facts (pay $3 shipping)
National Center For Constitutional Studies (pay $1 shipping for up to 9 copies)
Cato Institute (pay $4.95 for shipping)
TheCapitol.Net (send them a letter including two stamps)

Oh, you noticed? You mean the Heritage Foundation is the only organization that thinks it should be actually free? Those crazy conservatives. (And no, I didn't neglect to add anybody. These are the only legit sources I could find.) Of course, very few people actually know what the Heritage Foundation actually does, and it sounds harmless enough, so we can keep the embarrasing truth between us. I won't tell.

Liberty.

In Philadelphia in 1787, 55 men crafted a piece of writing that has never been matched in all of human history.

At the time, there was no nation on Earth governed with checks and balances on authority by those who were governed.

Our revolution has been the only true revolution of the people in human history. Every other "revolution" has ended in tyranny, and the oppressed people had to crawl their way back to the light.

The United States is unique. And a little weird.

The people of the United States have created for themselves something resembling that precious, lifegiving state: liberty. It was bought with blood.

But it will be taken away with paper. Thousands and thousands of pages of paper.

I intend to begin writing here to to sort out what we have, in laws and policy, and what we're losing in current and previous legislation. And possibly what we need to do to crawl back to liberty. I, like so many Americans, need to learn more about the Constitution, US and State Law, and the ideals behind them. I will try to be faithful to the facts but, as anyone who knows me can tell, I can't keep my opinions to myself. I hope you'll read them and respond.