Shake up the world

Imagine if, like a Boggle game, someone picked up the Earth and shook it up, and let all the countries fall into new slots, wherever chance happens to land them. Imagine if, suddenly, our neighbor wasn't Connecticut, but Afghanistan. Wow, what would the world be like? You know, if we had to expect crazy worldwide Boggle-storms every few years that always had us wondering where we'd end up next. Well, I'm really only pondering this because I saw an image of the artist Martin Wilner's piece Making History on an art blog called Moon River. I love how much this piece got me thinking. I also love Moon River. You're always met with something beautiful there.

End of summer, thanks to offshore drilling

GOOD's blog has been awesome lately, their new blogger Alexandra is funny and fun. I had to repost this image somewhere, it's a great t-shirt design on Threadless.

While on the subject, Grist made a good point on how best to drive home to people how bad an idea this is: Oil drilling = Oil spilling. This concept is even most applicable in lots of red southern states that have big support for keeping coastlines clean. I hope the Republicans and McCain will continue to shoot themselves in the foot!

Oh and also on the shooting themselves in the foot topic, The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby pointed out that though overturning the DC gun ban is another horrible idea, it could actually free up gun owners to vote for Obama, since the Supreme Court ruling means McCain's influence isn't needed to keep guns legal. At least there's a silver lining!