How’s it going? You’ve got to be worn out, it’s been a long journey. You’ve been on the front-lines for close to two weeks, fighting the nobel fight. You struggled to decide if you should show your support or not, you took the 2-3 minutes to find that website that makes you avatar green with only a few clicks, you updated your Twitter profile. It makes my head-spin a little to think of the effort it took to show support for fair elections. We applaud you. And I’m sure that since you’re willing to make such an investment in time and energy to turn a 48pixel photo of your headshot or your favorite anime star or Bullwinkle green you must be really devoted to the cause of fair and open elections.

As such a staunch supporter of fair elections Mr. or Mrs. Green Avatar you must also be a bit conflicted with the results from the Minnesota senatorial race. I mean after all your concerns are about fair and open democratic process, not partisan bickering or ideological differences, right. You’re concerns are that the votes cast are fairly counted, that due process and legal remedies pursued and exhausted to ensure that voters true voices are heard. So whether in the US or abroad you’re a defender of the democratic process, you’d never go overboard criticizing someone for fighting to have the votes counted and recounted, never. You’d definitely support the fight for fairness in Iranian if you knew the races was decided by less than .001%. Good for you, champion of fairness. Hope you sleep well knowing you’ve done your part for democracy, regardless of political affiliation, point of view or ideology.

Signed,
The Hypocrisy, Irony and Fishing Clubs of America

If you want people to start really caring and doing something to live a more ‘green’ lifestyle you have to a) make it valuable to switch activities b) make cost as close to the same or less as it does today and c) make it fun and something people want to do. This does all of that, very cool.