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I ain't as good as I once was...

I'm not even as good once as I ever was, but I can still get my ass over the barrier. The Former Aggie Horsecow Team (FAHT) had a strong showing a few weeks ago at the Diablo Valley college all-comers meet. I hadn't run in a week, but I manged to not kill myself and looked respectable over the barriers. I forgot how fun and easy the steeplechase is!

PETA

Oh, man! PETA is so awesome. Too bad bacon is delicious. You can see more.

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad

Inauguration Day

So, I am back in california now. Below are some more pictures from Inauguration day. This first one is where I watched the inauguration from. Although I wasn't pressed against the fence, I could touch it.

Looking back down the mall was amazing, just a see of humanity. It was so cold you could see heat rising off the people like the street on a hot day.

Here is Rick Warren praying, when they introduced him some people booed. I yelled, "Separate church and state!" I said the same when people said, "Amen."


Here he is the man of the hour...

Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible for me. I love you all.

Picking-up the Ticket

Monday morning I headed down to the Cannon House Office Building to pick-up my ticket, turns out a couple of thousand other people had to do that as well. I was on the early side, but as I left people were streaming out of the metro.

I started in line by the bench near the person in the red coat. The line stretched down around the corner as far as I could see. Everyone had to pass through airport style security (metal detector, x-ray, shoes off). Once the building opened it took about an hour for me to make in to the building. When I left I heard the line was over two and a half hours long!


The temperature was fairly low, I am guessing high twenties or low thirties. We had a brief scare when it started snowing, but it only lasted for a few minutes.

Right before I got in the building, a group of high school students came out and I recognized a letterman jacket. There was a contingent from Davis High. Go Blue Devils!


Here I am with the congressman before I picked up my ticket. He had a nice food spread in his office and was chatting with people as they came by to pick up their tickets.


Once I had my ticket packet, I jumped onto the metro and headed back out to my Aunt and Uncle's in Alexandria, VA and we went to see the farm.

Inauguration

Tired. More tomorrow.

Mr. Fairclough Goes to Washington

Here I am leaving this morning. I don't know where I will be relative to TV cameras but look for the red hat and the Proterospongia flag.

Off like a prom dress!

Alright, I am off to catch my flight to the Presidential Inauguration! I will try to post pictures, video and commentary during the trip, so check back. I'll say, "hi" to Obama for everyone.

The Problem Articulated

Making fun of Republicans, it's fun AND easy.

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Reagraham Lincool

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Not What She Intended

Last night I started reading Frances Moore Lappe's classic Diet for a Small Planet. The seminal work in socially responsible eating, Lappe catalogues the impact of our food choice on the planet and our fellow inhabitants. Written nearly a decade before I was born, I had to laugh as I read the introduction where she describes how she began writing the book by repeatedly using the phrase, "I followed my nose..." Having growing up in the next generation, this phrase immediately evokes images of Toucan Sam from the fruit loops commericals. Not the imagery she intended...

Too True.

WTF?

Remember Joe the Plumber? This guy in case you forgot:

Well, now this flaming moron is going to Gaza to be a reporter for pjtv.com. Holy Shit! Jesus Christ! I think my head is about to explode. This is too funny. Protected by God. HAHAHHAHAHAAHA!

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Clean Coal?

Shortly before the end of the year the Tenesse Valley Athority had a little accident. The picture above is from the TVA (Via Bay & Environment Blog). This house was deluged when a retention pond for coal ash burst, spilling an estimated 1 billion gallons of sludge, a years’ worth of waste from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s adjacent coal-burning power plant, over an area of 300 acres. Coal ash contains fun stuff like, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. This is stuff we don't want in the air (hence the sludge pool) but it is less regulated that house hold trash. I have been surprised by how little coverage this has gotten since it the biggest toxic spill our country has so far experienced. Clean coal anyone?

The Growth of Wal-Mart

My friend, who is a cartographer of sorts, sent me a link to this website that plots the growth of Wal-Mart by store location over time across America. Talk about two Americas.

The Dangers of Skiing

Well, this seemed like a good first post for 2009. A skier in Vail, Co, fell out of the chair lift. Fortunately, his pants got caught and prevented him from falling to the ground. Unfortunately, he was suspended half-naked from the chair for fifteen minutes before he was rescued. Talk about shrinkage. There are more pictures here.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone. I'll be posting regularly again next week.