Rant of the day: (actually of the last month...) peeple peeple peeple, please think of the image you generate with your onscreen names, nicks and email addresses. Working in a very large national center that processes documents important to the majority of high school students gives one a distinctly informed view of what email addresses are popular for youth ages 15 to 20 or so. Following is a list of particularly popular and waaaaaaay too cute nicknames used in email addresses:

cutie
cutey
babe
baby
babi
player
playa
da_(anything)
angel
angle (guess they can't spell)
devil
69
666
chick
chic
chik
xox - - - - - -xox
ox- - - - - -xo
xxx - - - - - - -
booty
panty
psycho
physco (another great speller)
girl
gurl
grl
krazy
QT
viper (2greg, 4u, etc.)
iam (name)
007
luv
gr8
sweetie
lil
- - - - - - demon
- - - - - - dragon
- - - - - - master

It must be a moment of "pause" perhaps when a student must list their email address on documents for return contact. Do you think that a business or professional contact will not notice that the reply is going to "lilcutiehotpantz@". LOL!

Dear friends, here is another gem from one of my favorite newsletter subscriptions I receive. pagans4peace is a yahoo group closely-affilitated with the Wilson's Almanac, mentioned in the past blog entries. Here is the "Psalm 2003" I received this last week, followed by site information.

"Psalm 2003"

Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He restoreth my doubts about the Republican party,
He guideth me onto the paths of unemployment for the party's sake.
I do fear the evildoers, for thou talkst about them constantly.
The tax cuts for the rich and thy deficit spending They do discomfort
me.
Thou anointeth me with never-ending debt.
And my savings and assets shall soon be gone.
Surely poverty and hard living shall follow me.
And my jobless children shall dwell in my basement forever."
This group is relatively unmoderated: make it your own, and please invite and welcome new members.
Join at our homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pagans4peace
-- we can all make use of its Files, Photos, Links, Chat Room, Calendar etc.

We are a group for discussing and posting information on peace and Nature-based spirituality, with activism for peace a main concern. We don't expect members to 'clean up' their language, but civility towards fellow members is expected by the rest of us. Please be tolerant of the spiritual paths of others at all times, as we are diverse in our beliefs.

it means that there are many, many people who are 'agin ya', to use Bush's phrasing from just a few years back. Here is a link to the basic online articles, and the story from the UK Mirror newspaper:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/

Note: Look at the phrasing by former Labour Leader Galloway, it's in bold...
200,000 MARCH AGAINST BUSH IN LONDON

Nov 20 2003
By Naveed Raja


A massive demonstration against George Bush drew up to 200,000 marchers on the streets of London today.

Organisers of the march, ending in a rally at Trafalgar Square, said the number was a record for any weekday protest in Britain.

With a huge police presence the Met reported no incidents of violence and the march passed off peacefully.

"This phenomenal response shows the depth of feeling of the British public towards this visit," said a spokesman for the Stop The War Coalition.

The march started near Euston Station and went past the House of Commons and Whitehall before finishing at Trafalgar Square.

When the march passed Downing Street anti-war protesters booed and jeered at Bush and Blair inside number 10.

A huge papier mache statue of Bush was hauled down by protestors in Trafalgar Square in protest at the Iraq war.

Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, on whose life the film Born on the Fourth of July was based, was the guest of honour.

Other speakers at the rally included former leader of the SNP Alex Salmon and Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Alice Mahon.

Former Labour MP George Galloway spoke to the crowd and described the march as "unbelievable".

He said: "This is the largest march on a midweek day that this country has ever seen - it is absolutely overwhelming.

"We're speaking for the majority of people in the world who want Bush out and who want Blair out."

"Tony Blair added insult to injury by bringing this ignorant, foolish and dangerous man to these shores and I think we are speaking for the majority of the country."

Since we often are confronted with media stories that seem to "disappear", this story is cut and pasted today. Credit to the author and publisher listed above. Again, the Brits come to the aid of Americans trying to get some "real" stories instead of the CNN and Fox versions...