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Call Your Senator!

I realize that calling for direct action isn't really Cake Police's thing, usually. However, times done had been changin'. Since Barack Obama's incredibly belated personal health care proposal does NOT include a public option (read: is cowardly), it's time to take to the streets (telephones). There is rapidly growing support in the Senate to pass a public insurance option through "reconciliation", which is a not at all apt seeming word for a process of passing a measure requiring only a simple majority of Senators, doing away with the 60 vote requirement which usually is incredibly effective at allowing nothing to ever get done. 23 Senators have already signed off on the letter to Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid that they would support such a bill. Add Reid himself, who has been a longtime supporter of the public option, as well as Biden's tie-breaking vote, and you know he's down, and we're already half of the way there! So, for reals, guys, call your Senator! If you go to this website and type in your name, e-mail address (get over it), and zip code, they will give you the phone numbers for your state's Democratic Senators and a script to read when you call. This could not be easier. This really looks like the last best chance the public option has, especially before the elections later this year maybe fuck everything up and give the Republicans a majority in the Senate again.

CAKE POLICERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

R.I.P. Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn died last night of a heart attack at 87 years of age. Zinn was a historian and activist best known for his book A People's History of the United States. This guy is a Hall of Famer when it comes to policing cake. Zinn was scheduled to speak at my school on Saturday, so the real tragedy here belongs to me. JK. In all seriousness, the world is definitely worse off for his departure from it, so the tragedy is all of ours. Below is a clip of Zinn talking about what he wants to be remembered for.

OMGZ U GUYZ NU VAMPIRE WEEKEND IS SO GUD!!!!!!

If you majored in Cake Eating at an Ivy League institution.

Do yourselves a favor and listen to this instead.

Cake Police

Follow-Up

Kurt Cobain Done Been Shitted On

SO, I would like to echo the dismay expressed by Jesse's Kranzler concerning the lack of respect shown to the man on this blog on this Monday. I'm not pointing any fingers, but Magical Fuckers fucked up. Let's not let that happen again, cus in a world where Kurt Cobain is allowed to be forgotten, cake eaters like Eddie Vedder win.

Secondly (and much more seriously), I don't know if any fans of the game known as "Guitar Hero 5" read this blog, but if you do own said video game, and are reading this, I would like to strongly urge you to take to the mothafuckin' streets and murder/burn/fuck that game and the despicable cake eaters who made it in the face.

In this game, you can "unlock" an avatar of Kurt Cobain, which will then digitally perform horrendous shit such as, but not limited to, Flava Flav, Bush, and Jon Bon Jovi's seminal illustration of how mindless and soulless music can possibly be; "Shot Through The Heart." Having the digital likeness of Cobain "perform" songs that are diametrically opposed to everything he represented and believed in is a horrendous disservice to the memory of an awesome musician, person, and Captain of Policing Cake. Courtney Love is trying to get this shit recalled, even though she may or may not have authorized said shit in the first place, so lets all cross our fingers and hope the forces of good prevail.

Also, lets do our part to combat this historical revisionist bastardization and keep Nirvana Mondays alive from now on. K?

So you know what I'm taking about: