Email from Bert, regarding my orange bloggery, blogged here with his permission:
Hey Betsy, I even had an orange shag rug in my living room!
My favorite Orange blog thing actually is mostly green yet speaks volumes about orange?????
Neeka’s Backlog has been coming mostly from Kiev during the recent political events:
Orange has a special meaning in the Ukraine. In their recent presidential election, pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko was nearly poisoned with dioxin (Agent Orange). Supporters, wearing orange to show solidarity, went on to triumph–even though his opponent got millions of rubles in campaign funds from Russia.
Neeka reports that the “orange revolution”, now being more broadly defined as anti-Putin and pro-democracy, has spread to St. Petersburg, where retirees are protesting cuts in their benefits.
This doesn’t sound good for Bush’s friend “Pootie-Poot.”