bad blogger

I've been a very bad blogger lately, doing my best Andy impression. I'm making an effort to get something up every day until I leave for Europe in a week. We'll see how that goes.

Today, there's an amusing article in Slate where the author tries her hand a lobbying. She meets with a variety of hill staffers pitching her idea of a national law requiring animal shelters to spay or neuter all animals in their care. Not one to reminisce, the story did remind me of the dozens of meetings I took with causes from Personal Rapid Transit to a group trying to put an abridged version of the Constitution on the back of the $1 bill. What a glorious life hill staffers lead.

A couple of other random notes:

• So thousands of U.S. soldiers are dying in Iraq. But what brings the President to tears? An autistic kid playing high school basketball. Pathetic.
  
• On a wall in my office building: "Attention JFO Staff:
  the medical clinic has received a small shipment of hepatitis B. Please come visit us to get your injection."
  
• Finally....Censure President Bush. More on this later.