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Blog Action Day - See My Climate Change Post(s)

I know it's a little late in the day, but I just remembered to cross post a reminder here. It's Blog Action Day, when blogs all over the world write about the same topic. This year it's Climate Change, a subject near and dear to my heart -- well, I guess I mean I write about it all the time over at GreenDaily.

Please take a minute to check out my Blog Action Day post over there, which includes my favorite 10 posts on the topic. The subjects include Alpha Green Al Gore, the Clean Coal Unicorn, naked protesters and a simplified guide to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

I know, you're so excited you've already clicked over, and no one is reading this last sentence.

Fundraising for Rob Miller, Opponent of "Liar" Joe Wilson

 

If you tuned in to hear Obama's healthcare speech last night or listened to the pundits afterward, you're familiar with the many charms of South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, who heckled the president when he noted correctly that illegal immigrants will not receive free coverage under any of the proposed plans.

One good thing came of it. Heck, two: there's more focus on what a jerk Strom Thurmond-loving Wilson is, and people are banding together to donate funds to Rob Miller, his rival in the upcoming election.

ActBlue reveals that readers of The Daily Kos alone have donated nearly $48,000 as of this morning; total donations hang just below $100,000.

As for post-speech recommended reading, head over to The St Petersburg Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact.com to check out their appraisal of the truths and fibs in Obama's speech. Wilson's "You lie!" is rated a false; Obama's claim that preventative care saves money is also ranked as untrue.

Mayor McHottie - The Early Years

Hellloooooooooooo sailor!

If this is a taste of what's to come, I think we're going to enjoy this gubernatorial race quite a bit.

I Will Buy A Ticket To See Rahm Emanuel Kick Samberg's Ass

Forget Mark Walberg, let's see Rahm Emanuel on SNL reacting to Andy Samberg's smart ass impression. I bet he'd be the best cameo ever. You know, he has a lot of stage training, from his ballet time. He could kick Palin's ass, literally and figuratively.

Like my buddy From SF, I have a little shame crush on Rahm-bo. There's something about a cussing ballet dude that just works, you know? It's something about the calf muscles. Not to mention his mangled finger. His middle finger. Deep sigh.

If he wore an eye patch I would leave Chief and forsake Christian Bale.

Val Kilmer for President in 2016

"Good morning, New York Post home subscriptions, how may I help you?"

"Babe. It's Val."

"Excuse me? This is the New York Post?"

"Shit. I told the operator "New Mexico" Post. Alright, it doesn't matter. It can't wait until I'm back from Bulgaria. Tell them I'm in for this governor trip. Yes! It's all going just like me and Bill R. planned during that last smudge ceremony in Taos."

"Sir, this is the subscription desk. May I transfer your call?"

"Wha? Jezzushhhhh. Fine, let me talk to my old gal Cindy A. She still owes me for that night in 1981. I was a boy, and she made me a man. A man with memories."

Silence, then, "Please hold."

*******

For a minute there, I was scared that we wouldn't have anything to talk about now that the election is over. The good guy won and that stone cold bitch is back in the Hinterland where she belongs. End of story.

Sure, we can look forward to the (nine-fingered) iron fist of Rahm Emanuel, which I suspect will provide hours of entertainment.

But that's a sophisticated chuckle over name brand liquor, not the fervent, emotional hoots and hysterical tears cried into pitchers of beer, not the emotional roller coaster we got addicted to over the past few months. That kind of excitement is over.

Or so I thought...

It never occurred to me that Julliard drama school graduate, coke whore lover and all around genius Val Kilmer was waiting in the wings be the next candidate of our heart.

Mr. Kilmer is legend in my home for his star turn in The Doors. You really haven't lived until you've endured enjoyed Chief and his brother The Artistic One doing dueling impressions of:

• Val-Jim on hallucinogens in the desert!
• Val-Jim slurs the lyrics to every Doors song!
• Val-Jim ruins Thanksgiving! (Sometimes I help by playing the Meg Ryan part: "Jim Morrison, you have ruined Thanksgiving for the last time! Mime throwing mashed potatoes. Thwack!)

As if that performance wasn't enough to make you love him, let's not forget Val's work in Top (Gay as Tim) Gun, Willow and The Island of Doctor Moreau, where he went bite for bite with scenery chewer Marlon Brando.

Plus, he's the voice of KITT. Yes, the sarcastic car from Knight Rider. What can't Val do?

Yesterday, just in time to rescue me from boredom and depression, Val confirmed, via a cell phone call from Bulgaria, that he is "mulling over" a run for Governor of New Mexico when Bill Richardson receives his appointment to some role (maybe Secretary of State?) in the Obama Administration.

Before you laugh, why the hell not? Val has lived in New Mexico for 25 years. He knows how to work a popularity contest in the media. He certainly can't chase more skirts than Bill Richardson. Plus, he needs to start somewhere, and soon, if he's going to be a credible candidate in 2016 after eight glorious years of President Obama.

Say hello to Governor Iceman! Suck it Tom Cruise!

Change we need!

No lines at the polls in SF, I was in and out in five minutes.

That's even though we had 22 city-specific propositions on the ballot. Yeah, we're detail-oriented like that.

Propositions A-V covered the usual stuff like bonds for hospitals and more interesting ones like decriminalizing prostitution.

And of course, we're all crossing our fingers that Proposition R passes. We really, really need to rename that sewerage plant after George W. Bush.

Did you vote yet? Go!

Mayor McHottie says "Vote NO on Prop 8!" in his usual seductively hoarse voice

I am voting No on Prop 8 anyway because it's stupid and prejudiced and mean and flat out wrong. But I'll also take any opportunity to post about Gavin "Mayor McHottie" Newsom.

Here he is, appearing yet again as Batman, in this PSA. To paraphrase from an earlier Gavin speech, unironically used by the nasty right to scare their ignorant conservative base into action, GAY MARRIAGE IS HERE TO STAY SO GET USED TO IT!

Why should straight people have all the fun? Watch, enjoy and vote!

The Blue Angels: Patriotic or Idiotic?

Video: Top Gun, A Manly Love Story

It's that time of year again in San Francisco. Warm, sunny days. Gorgeous, azure-blue, cloud-free skies. And the ear-splitting blast of killer planes buzzing office buildings and city homes.

Cripes! We're at war. Gas prices are at an all time high. Every time Iceman and Goose fly by, I imagine them punching yet another hole in the atmosphere, melting the ice caps and killing a polar bear. Is this annual martial display really necessary?

Each year I complain about the waste and environmental toll, and each year Chief strongly disagrees with me, reminding me that it's a) "fucking cool" and b) the biggest recruiting tool in the armed forces' arsenal.

As a marketing professional, I question the efficacy of the acquisition tactic. Does making pets cower and babies on the street cry, while you burn liquid gold and further pollute our skies, the magic ticket to make guys (and gals) want to serve our country?

Don't answer. Let's assume, for the sake of my pinko-greeno-liberal sanity that, "No, it doesn't work."

In that case, I have a recommendation for an alternative approach: a cost-effective, targeted, direct mail campaign!

Sarah Palin's Debate Decision Matirx

Thanks to our brilliant friend Suzie for forwarding Aden Nak's BRILLIANT illustration of the decision tree Sarah Palin used during the debate last night.

Did you feel like she avoided questions? Resorted to winking and false folksisms? You were not imagining things! It was all too true, and in fact, planned:

Thank you Aden, for illustrating it so much more clearly than the candidate was able to do herself. Wink!

The New Humor Paradigm: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is Funny Despite Being True

Ugh and at the same time, Bono, King of Ireland? Fucking hilarious because it's true!