Oooooh...

Yes, it's another one of my fabulously inventive subject headings for what is basically boring chatter about the news.

Kerry just named two of his economic advisers. And they're Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs.

Yup, that Steve Jobs.

So I don't care what this means about his economic policy. I don't know what Steve Jobs knows about taxes and frankly I don't care. (My interest in tax law hovers somewhere around "absolute zero.")

All I want to know is ... does this mean we're going to have a Pixar-animated campaign ad? Because that would be fabulous. And would appeal to young voters and all that. Sulley and Mike endorse Kerry. No question about it. *g*

And the Toronto Star whumps American papers.

Just another news-reading note.

People often feel safe from the draft. They figure that the government won't reinstitute it, or that they're safe because they're too old, or because they're not athletically capable, or because they're women.

But the U.S. Selective Service System recently wrote a plan for the future of the agency.

And it contains phrases like these: "In line with today's needs, the Selective Service System's structure, programs and activities should be re-engineered toward maintaining a national inventory of American men and, for the first time, women, ages 18 through 34, with an added focus on identifying individuals with critical skills." (How can young people possibly support a government system that treats them like objects -- I mean, thanks, but I prefer not to be inventoried?)

They also propose a requirement that people who are registered regularly update the Selective Service about any training in specialized skills. (It's unclear what they would be doing with this -- the previous draft used a lottery based on date of birth. Would this mean you could be drafted if you spoke Arabic -- even if the draft was not being instituted for soldiers?)

How safe can you feel reading that?

(On a side note, how sad is it that this is in the Toronto Star and that even when I use google news, all I find for "draft -NBA -NFL" in major American papers are a number of articles on college students debating the concept of the draft?)