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Dear Advice Puppy,

Are you an Indigo Pet?

Advice Puppy, I am hungover. What is the best way to ensure the day proceeds pleasantly?

Dear advice puppy,

How do I tell if my freakishly swollen throat is from a cold or allergies?

Advice puppy, how have I lived 16 years without experiencing the extreme amazingness of De La Soul?
And why is pretty much all of my brainpower put into music? You'd think I was an aspie it's such an obsession.

OK sure.  I think you'd be fairly safe, and I know we plan to eventually have this on a P2P network, but I'll think of something.

Later today = after I have slept.

Which will probably make it tomorrow for me, or very late tonight for Murrican-spags.

Dear advice puppy,

How can I lose 20 pounds quickly?

Advice Puppy, what should I do today?

Advice puppy,

Is this the single best thread that has been posted in Apple Talk in the last three months?

Right, I'm going to upload album 3 later today, and album 4 at an unspecified time later this week.

Advice puppy,
can you help me get a date?

Against the death penalty?

You = subversive anarchist.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/92212/

Finally, at long last, I have something in common with Muhammad Ali.

No, I'm not the heavyweight champion of the world, and haven't been named spokesperson for Raid bug spray. Like "the Greatest" - not to mention far too many others -- I have been a target of state police surveillance for activities -- in my case against the death penalty -- that were legal, non-violent, and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected. In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security, I am "Dave Z." This nickname was given by an undercover agent known to us as "Lucy." She sat in our meetings of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, smiling and engaged, taking copious notes about actions deemed threatening by the Governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich. Our seditious crimes, as Lucy reported, involved such acts as planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing up a petition. Adding a dash of farce to this outrage, she was monitoring us in the liberal enclave of Takoma Park, Maryland, a place known more for vegans than violence, more for tie-dying than terrorism.

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and the ACLU, we now know that "Lucy" was only one part of a vast, insidious project. The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted near 300 hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and Maryland's use of death row.

My dear friend Mike Stark, a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty is at times referred to in "Lucy's" report as a "socialist" and an "anarchist." One can only assume this is the pathetic time honored tradition of reducing people to simple caricatures, all the better to garner Homeland Security grant money.

Veteran peace activist in Baltimore, Max Obuszewski, who initiated the suit, was as well consistently shadowed as he walked down the streets. His "primary crime" (their lingo) was entered into the homeland security database as "terrorism - anti govern(ment)." His "secondary crime" was listed as "terrorism -- anti-war protesters." The database is known as the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or HIDTA. Yes, a respected peace organizer of many decades standing is checked as a terrorist, his actions listed as criminal, for doing nothing more than exercising his rights. It boggles the mind.

Former police superintendent Tim Hutchins defended these totalitarian practices by saying, "You do what you think is best to protect the general populace of the state." (The article mentioned that Hutchins is now a federal defense contractor. I guess The Global War on Terror is just the gift that keeps on giving for the Hutchins family.)

But "protect the general populace" from what? The surveillance continued even after it was determined that we were planning nothing more dangerous that carrying clipboards in a public place. Hutchins and the Ehrlich administration have undertaken an ugly violation of our civil rights, manipulating fears of terrorism to stamp out dissent.

Advice Puppy, am I bipolar?

this thread is killing me.

Advice Puppy, if it turns out that this thread doesn't kill Squiddy, what will?

Only 12 years overdue.

Dear advice puppy,

What sort of advice would you give yourself?

should i be offended when she calls out her father's name instead of mine?

Advice Puppy,

What is love?

You weren't even born in the 90s.  Stupid puppy.