Not One Red Cent

Just a reminder to everyone out there who wishes he or she could stand along the Bush inaugural parade route with a basketful of rotten eggs (or worse) that there is one thing you can do this Thursday -- or rather, there's one thing you can refrain from doing, and that's spend money. This Thursday, January 20th, Inauguration Day, is also Not One Damn Dime Day in America, red state, blue state and decline to state alike. The urban legend-busting site Snopes.com says it's a particularly ineffective way to protest, but I'm still encouraging people to do it, if only to make yourself feel good. Sometimes that's enough.

So don't buy gas, don't buy groceries, don't buy lunch, don't buy the house a round (hey, wait a minute...), don't buy tickets to the movies or the opera or the symphony, don't... well, you get the idea. Just don't. Leave your wallet in your purse or your pants. Stay inside and throw things at the TV instead.

OR... come out to Civic Center in San Francisco at 5 PM Thursday and join the protest. Yes, I know it's sponsored by International ANSWER, a group with which I am less than enamored, but again, sometimes it's all about doing something just to make yourself feel better.