A Few Things for Your Monday

1. My current profile picture is of a truck that was parked at the County Market the other day. It takes all kinds.

2. We went hiking on Saturday and did not see a bear. We saw bear poop, though, which is better because it can't maul you to death. We also heard something big moving in the woods but did not stick around to see what it was.

3. Things are getting all Depression-y and scary. If we had any money, we'd be keeping it under the floorboards. But apparently, what we really need to be worried about is a former sixties-radical-turned-law-professor and the fact that Barack Obama met him/spoke to him once or twice a decade or so ago. Cause that's the real threat to the American way of life, doncha know.

4. Relative to #3, I registered to vote today. If you haven't already done so, you should do it now. And remember, you're not voting for the PTA president or a new member of your book club, you're voting for the President of the United States, and it's okay, in fact it's more than okay, if the President of the United States is highly educated and intellectual and maybe even a bit of an elitist, as long as they still understand what the middle class and those living in poverty need. You don't have to sit next to the President at a dinner party, this isn't a vote for Homecoming Queen. It's not okay if the President of the United States is a smug, smirking ignoramus whose best argument for election is that "She's just like you!" And yeah, yeah, yeah, she's only the VP candidate. I hate to get all morbid, and I certainly don't wish anyone ill, but google the statistics on melanoma. If they're elected, the odds are very good that Palin will wind up as President, the thought of which is enough to keep a body up nights. Thought Bush was bad? Meet Bush Light.