I've seen a few posts in regards to the desire of Olympia Businesses to increase the sustainability of lifestyle and would like to see something like this in town...everything is well-thought out, from plant based food choices to what happens with the waste.

I just saw this article and I couldn't resist. It almost raises my opinion of the candidate, except that it lowers the term "clowning" to its most dangerous level: a foolish show-off. I've tried to be a neutral and apolitical clown, but if I don't speak my truth I'll just explode.

Like a big ol' esploding ceegar!

Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator

By Ralph Vartabedian and Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times

....

Southern Spain, about December 1961

McCain was on a training mission when he flew low and ran into electrical wires. He brought his crippled Skyraider back to the Intrepid, dragging 10 feet of wire, sailors and aviators recalled.

In his 1999 autobiography, "Faith of My Fathers," McCain briefly recounts the incident, calling it the result of "daredevil clowning" and "flying too low." McCain did not elaborate on what happened, and The Times could find no military records of the accident.

Oh.

I see.

It is a dog.

And he is smoking a cigarette.

As usual.

OK. Fine. Go ahead little UMLs. Set me up. Knock me down. 

I don't care. I enjoy it. Ha ha! I'm laughing, see? Very funny. Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry funny.

Next time. Next time. We'll see. We'll see who laughs next time.

Look! Look you now! There they go! Almost like the stars of the Heavens above giving us a celestial image of cosmic awareness. What sort of wonderful and inspiring image will they create?

And now I remove the grid lines and the little UMLs are free from the rigid lines of regulation and mathematical measurements. They can reunite in some other form than boring straight lines. They can create an image with meaning. Something that plugs into the mystical collective id.

The most depressing part about the story a week or so back about the most recent buyouts at the Olympian was the horn tooting by the paper's publiser about how they're fighting back the tide:

The paper is pushing its advertising and circulation departments to drive revenue and it recently launched Vitality411 — http://theolympian. vitality411.com — a new health care Web site, Miller said.

“We’re not just playing defense; we’re trying to play offense as much as possible,” he said.

Vitality411, to put it nicely, isn't a local product. It may have listings for local resources, but by and large, it is a canned copy product the Olympian bought from MediResources, a company from Toronto that describes itself here:

We are at the forefront of creating new technologies that deliver health content. We differentiate ourselves from others, as we don't just create health information or just develop technology, we do both. This has allowed us to have a unique perspective and create more technologically innovative ways to deliver information that effectively improves health.

The copy that the Olympian is buying from Canada isn't even exclusive to the Olympian. This column on dancing is also available here and here. Actually, now that I think of it, the Idaho Press-Tribune's health website looks exactly the same as the Olympian's, minus the masthead of course.

You would be well served to check out his other work, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVYfbKNgy04