On the one hand I like to think of every day as Earth Day, with every opportunity to do somitheng positive for the Earth a good one.On the other hand I can see how Earth Day is sort of like Rosh Hashana the time of the year when we look back on the previous year and make plans for the year ahead.Similarly, Earth Day could be the day to rouse people from their earth friendly slumber. I say that if even one person awakens and commits to doing everything in their power to compost, recycle, etc it's worth the party.

Personally I think that Prim's name being drawn at the reaping was a plant baseuce of how smug Effie Trinket was when she called her name. But I don't think the Capitol personally wanted Prim, I think they just wanted a 12-year-old girl, and that just happened to be Prim. Also, if the drawing was a plant (which I don't think it is) then Effie would've known that Katniss would step up and take Prim's place and when she does take her place, everyone (including Effie) was shocked, baseuce district 12 hadn't had someone fill in for a tribute in years.

Oh, I forgot to inmteon: you can set the language of your choice in your Google Reader settings. In German, the word they use instead of Like is Bevorzugen which means prefer or favor which at first doesn't sound much better. But here's the interesting (uh to me) part:Bevorzugen is linked, linguistically, to vorziehen. (The ziehen root there gets nounified and the verbified.) Vorziehen means to prefer or to choose as well, but it also carries a more literal meaning of pull/push forward/from behind, etc. Which is what you're doing when you mark a news article with the Like function in Google Reader.

Your next party invitation ?

aww malia and sasha look so cute

I fell the same way, and I think its important to know more about Mrs. Obama brother, who he married too, and his two kids. They are a part of history to.

Malia Obama daughter looks just like his sister i would like more photos on his sister and where she went with them also her daughter Barack niece and why they were not pointed out they are very inportant in his life to me