New direction for PolitCorps

After another fruitless PolitiCorps brainstorm session, which again descended into coarse slogan territory ("pubically-interested leaders"), Leon and Adam put their heads together, and decided to do something entirely different. Here's what they came up with:

Rejected PolitiCorps '07 slogans

Here at the Bus Project, we do NOT fuck around with slogans. What you're about to read is a sample of the rejected slogans for next summer's PolitiCorps program. PolitiCorps is one of the flagship programs of the Bus Project. It is a summer fellowship and a political leadership school where college students and recent graduates split their time between classes and political organizing. The fellows work campaign-style hours and for many, it's a first-time plunge into the real and often grueling work that comes with an election season. Without further ado, we present you with the list of rejects...

• PolitiCorps 2007: The dumb and boring need not apply
• PolitiCorps 2007: A coalition of the young and willing
• PolitiCorps 2007: A coalition of the young and marginally attractive
• PolitiCorps 2007: Highly-paid summer vacation
• PolitiCorps 2007: Highly-paid winter vacation (psst, it's actually in the summer)
• PolitiCorps 2007: Aborting political apathy
• PolitiCorps 2007: Burning the flag of apathy
• PolitiCorps 2007: Lighting a fire under the ass of democracy
• PolitiCorps 2007: Not just a school of fish navigating the waters of democracy
• PolitiCorps 2007: Enforcing democracy with an iron fist
  
• PolitiCorps 2007: Not like stuff you don't like
• PolitiCorps 2007: Driving leaders through the amber fields of public service
• PolitiCorps 2007: Probing for leaders
• PolitiCorps 2007: Choose your own adventure
• PolitiCorps 2007: An army of several
• PolitiCorps 2007: Drawing a line in the sand against Apathy Hussein
• PolitiCorps 2007: The Bus is coming, but not in a dirty way.
• PolitiCorps 2007: Training the Padawan for the Jedi of tomorrow (Low-Midichlorians need not apply). Awesome.
• PolitiCorps 2007: Riding the steed of democracy bareback with the chaps of the public interest (not in a dirty way).

Vote for your favorite, or suggest your own. Thwack!

Slithering through the grassroots

Here at the Bus Project, we do NOT fuck around with movie themes, especially following our tragic "Titanic"-themed trip, when two-thirds of the volunteers froze to death. That's why we chose "Snakes on a Bus" for our trip to Washington County this weekend, where we will talk with voters about renewable energy and progressive legislative candidate David Edwards.

"Snakes on a bus," you might know, has taken on its own colloquial meaning in contemporary popular culture. To thwart this amazing Bus Trip, our opponents seem bent on erasing every mention of that phrase from the interweb, and they would have succeeded, but before they got to Wiktionary, we managed to take a screenshot of the entry, and you can find it here. Snakes on a bus, friend!

What do snakes have to do with renewable energy, you might ask? OMG LOOK OVER THERE!!!!

Anyway, as we were in the middle of saying, the Bus believes that clean energy is a key component to healthy communities and a robust economy. And it's all possible through the legislature: we can help make Oregon a model for the country by electing progressive candidates who are willing to fight for the public interest, such as David Edwards. Join us for this trip, Saturday the 23rd, or the snakes will sneak up on you, and they will brutally attack you, and you immediately will feel the poison course through your veins. Rendered immobile, you are helpless to stop the beasts as they devour you completely. What a way to go. Don't let it happen to you.