Contest winner, and musings

Congratulations to Denise of Clear Creek Lavender! - You have won Dewey and something yarny. Thank you all for your contributions to Heifer International.

Re: teabagging. Newsday columnist Ellis Hennican posted a Tweet that says it all.

• Top marginal tax rates: Reagan (50%), Kennedy (77%), Eisenhower (91%), Clinton (39.6%). Today? (35%). Oh my God! Pass the Lipton! Tea time!
  

Anna has posted a link and meditation about Susan Boyle : Some days, life gets it right. Indeed it does.

Judith Krug has died. Whether you know who she is or not, please read her obituary in the New York Times. She was important.

And finally, (not) wordless.

April 8 : pass on the gift to Heifer International, and a giveaway

Anyone who reads Tea Leaves knows how passionate I am about Heifer International. Today, April 8, is Giving Day. Please give.

How about if I bribe you? If you leave a response telling me that you've donated to Heifer International between today and 14 April, I'll enter you in a giveaway for the the audiobook of Dewey, the Small Town Library Cat Who Changed the World (which I won last year, courtesy of EarlyWord, the Publisher | Librarian Connection) plus a yarny companion surprise.

I'll pick the winner on 15 April, and anyone whose country has been helped by Heifer International may enter -- which means, anyone on the planet!

Please give!

You make me laugh!

I don't love this book. Would you like to adopt her? Ha! You make me laugh.



No, seriously. Make me laugh. If your reason for wanting the book is the funniest or silliest of the hundreds of entreaties responses, the book is yours!


I'll give you a week. Make me laugh!