Well, I finally broke down and signed up for Facebook when my cousin sent out invitations to join a family reunion group. Signed up yesterday and have already found a bunch of friends--regular friends and relatives, friends from the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, friends/acquaintances from the Baltimore poetry scene. Very interesting seeing who is on here. I thought most people on Facebook would be college students and teenagers, but the user base seems more diverse than that.

I've tried feeding my blog to Facebook-I think it worked. This post is actually a test to see if it gets picked up here from Selene's Spot to Facebook. I stopped the import feature at six months so it wouldn't import everything.

Facebook, LiveJournal, whatever--another distraction, another invitation to spend too much time on the internets... On the other hand, Facebook could be a useful tool in promoting/networking oneself professionally (e.g., photography).

The American people are demanding a public option. What's so wrong about taxing the wealthiest 2 percent to help pay for it? What's so wrong about levying a "sin tax" on soda, booze, and cigarettes? Aren't those options better than raising taxes on those who can least afford it? How about a little karmic justice on the brokers, bankers, CEOs and politicians whose greed wreaked havoc on the economy in the first place? It's Main Street, not Wall Street, who is paying the price. 

In the "I can't believe my ears" department... Pat Buchanan on MSNBC was busy trashing Sonia Sotomayor being helped by affirmative action, implying that she didn't pull herself up by her own bootstraps like Sarah Palin. In addition to hard work and sacrifice, affirmative action gave an equally-qualified poor Latina woman the opportunity to compete on a level playing field. The woman has a solid, impeccable legal resume. A white male nominee for the Supreme Court would not be treated the same way (they would be treated more respectfully).

And I would not hold Sarah Palin up as a model of intelligence, industriousness, and integrity. Her continued popularity rather baffles me, but I guess she (and Rod Blagoevich) are considered by some to be outwardly charismatic and attractive no matter what they say, and are entertaining in a Paris-Hilton-sort-of-way.

Imagine the media reaction if Joe Biden suddenly resigned the vice presidency and went crabbing in Delaware.