New projects

After thinking on this conversation for a bit, particularly the part about growing up with Vietnam in my living room, I started this blog. Warning: graphic images.

And inspired by Operation Mosquito, I've started another letter-writing campaign.

What a difference a Friedman unit makes

One of my New Years Resolutions for 2007 was to lobby Congress [okay, send them e-mails] about the farm bill, health care, the Mideast [just for starters]. It's not something I kept up with, but I got a few replies. Form letters to be sure, but replies nonetheless. Six months ago the good [and not so good] people of Congress didn't exactly see it my way. Now, though, they're singing a different tune.

We'll see what happens.

Write.

That's what you used to do. Put pen to paper and let the ink and the words flow. Letters to the editor. Letters to Congress. Letters to the President even, though I think this particular one might not listen.

I'd begun to think it was a lost avenue of communication here in the digital age, but I could be wrong. People are writing to their Senators and Representatives. Or at least they're thinking about it.

Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money.

To me. I may need bailing out.

I've been agitated for too long now, and it's time to turn the tables and become an agitator myself. I'm going to start by e-mailing everybody in Congress.

I invite you to join me. Borrow my letter[s], or write your own. I've added links in the sidebar over there for writing to Congress people. If I figure out a way to make that easier, I'll fix it.

Suggestions, comments, critiques, or criticim invited, but you'll have to make them here. I've turned off comments over there. It's not like I need yet another discussion forum to keep up with, much as like all y'all.