I currently have a need for volunteers to go out into the community and fill out forms with people. The information collected is only used for the purpose of providing statistics and in the future will serve as a measuring stick to gauge the effectiveness of the ten-year plan. No identifying information will be collected.

If anyone is interested in helping out please call me at 359.3293, or leave me a message on this site.

Just discovered this web site Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. They are covering armed conflicts around the world. The philosophy of the crew and the resulting reports are fascinating.

Don't expect any hard-hitting, or even really insightful commentary, more just an audio notebook of what i get up to from time to time.

I hope to record some pod-commentary about the upcoming Canadian election (next Monday).

To subscribe (free) and listen, stick this in your preferred podcatcher: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChoogleOnWithUncleWeed

Or subscribe to "Choogle on with Uncle Weed" at iTunes

Description sez: Uncle Weed and Cosmo head to Olympia's legislative building for a forum on progressive blogging, creative media outreach and general mudrackery.

From the Olympian:

The South Sound economy showed continued signs of growth in December as Thurston County’s unemployment rate fell to a six-year low, the state Department of Employment Security announced Tuesday.

The county’s unemployment rate dropped from 4.8 percent in November to 4.3 percent in December, while national and statewide unemployment rates also declined.

In actual fact, the reason the unemployment number is so low is that anyone without a job is so depressed by this weather that they are huddled in the fetal position in bed and are unable to apply for benefits, thereby skewing the statistics.

From the Olympian:

Director Hany Abu-Assad puts a human face on the unwieldy subject of Israeli-Palestinian violence with “Paradise Now,