For Arizona voters

I got this from Sandy Bahr from the Sierra Club. This is the craziest AZ ballot proposition yet, and that's saying a lot.

The witching hour is fast approaching; don't let Election Day become the 'Day of the Dead.'
Vote no on Prop 105.
If Prop 105, the so-called "majority rules" amendment passes those deceased who remain on the voter rolls would be counted as automatic NO votes. Is that fair?

http://proposition105.cmail2.com/l/565647/46tt6i3j/r

Happy Halloween

Be safe & have fun, everybody!

Help Esha Momeni

I came across an article on the L.A. times web site about Esha Momeni, a Los Angeles grad student who was detained while visiting her home in Iran supposedly because of her political activities for women's rights there. Amnesty International asks that as many people as possible send letters to the Iranian government as soon as possible asking for her release. Believe it or not, these letters work much of the time. Take a minute or two today and write an e-mail for Esha.

See Author Alan Weisman at ASU in Tempe

I wish I could go, but for folks in AZ, this should be very interesting:

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth

In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; what of our everyday stuff may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.October 29, 2008 - 7 p.m.Murdock Lecture Hall <http://www.asu.edu/map/interactive/?campus=tempe&building=MUR>Room 101http://www.worldwithoutus.com/http://www.worldwithoutus.com/about_author.html

Thanks to Jon Findley for posting that info.

I believe I recommended this book way back, but if I forgot to, this is also a chilling Halloween read! ;-)

Great Halloween Book for Kids

Getting into the spirit of the season? Tired of your routine bedtime stories and if you have to say "Goodnight Moon" one more time you will scream? Then run - run, I say- to your nearest bookstore and pick up Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex. We've had it for a year now and we read it all year round, but especially now it is perfection. Here is an excerpt:

And that's not even our favorite. We like the pages about the Phantom of the Opera who can't get "It's a Small World" and "The Girl From Ipanema" out of his head. Or, "Godzilla Pooped on My Honda" is a classic, though obviously scatalogical (photo included). Anyway, for kids 4 to 12, and grownups, it's a must have.

What election?

I'm stressed. I can tell because my nails are a complete mess. Can we just fast forward now through the next two weeks? And what is this feeling - hopefulness? The people now know who the real Barack Obama is, Sarah, and they seem to like him. Thank goodness.

Anyway, I'm voting in AZ because we're still not perma-Californians. Which means I can't vote against the California anti gay marriage bill but there's one of those in AZ too. Actually, the Arizona ballot is chock full of bad ideas, like prop 105. And Bob Lord is in a statistical dead heat with John Shaddegg! So, AZ Voters, vote no on just about everything, except for 202 and 300. And maybe my vote will matter on something. Wouldn't it be awesome if McCain lost Arizona? A girl can dream. I'm going to get this ballot in the mail. Yay, voting!