Pimp Your Stuff Thursday

• Tomorrow I'll be at MarsCon in Williamsburg, VA. There will be fun, hugs, music, barbecue. My first set is "Filk and Cookies" at 10 p.m. Friday.
• naomi_de_plume will be on a panel there, just before my set, on Breaking Into Publishing. You can find out more at her blog.
• Check out Kim Boekbender's new album, The Impossible Girl. Free to download.
• Also free to download: stuff on a very cool site I intend to join called Jamendo. I commend you to their Top 100 list, particularly "Balrog Boogie" by the Diablo Swing Orchestra.
• Speaking of free, today's Giveaway Of The Day is a pretty useful Windows program called Project Lasso that helps keep your system processes from slowing down your machine.

Ready... Set... Pimp Your Stuff!

The Speech

So.

Thoughts?

CWAA

A leader of the Tucson, AZ Tea Party says it was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' own fault she was shot.

The Arizona congresswoman shouldn't have attended an event "in full view of the public" if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries.

[...]

"It's political gamesmanship," he told the Guardian. "The real case is that she [Giffords] had no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?"

I want to help elevate the discourse.

REALLY I do.

So, I shall use Charles Lavoie's suggestion for making New Yorker cartoons funnier by replacing the caption with a particular phrase. Your clue to this shall be the tag: CWAA.