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I could not agree more with the April 20 letter of the day, "For Earth’s sake, will someone pick up litter?" It seems this is the week dedicated to keeping the earth clean and green!
However, I don’t think this small allotment of time is enough to educate people about keeping our living area clean.
Every day I see people throwing cigarette butts and fast-foot wrappers out of their car windows. Apparently eating and smoking break up the monotony of driving but these people can’t carry their trash home with them.
I was driving on Hwy. 100 with a friend one day and seeing a snowstorm of cardboard, plastic and other debris floating all over the road. We caught up to the offender, which was a junk truck with his load being blown all over the highway. The irony of this was that we both at the same time drove by a highway patrolman with a radar gun! He did not even look at the garbage or the truck, only oncoming cars that might be speeding. If an officer of the law is not going to stop and ticket this "litterbug" is it any wonder other people are going to do the same?
We called 911 and reported the truck, but I doubt the driver was caught.
My point is that unless more people become proactive and call people on their "litter habits, " Earth Day has little meaning.
A new inductee into the Adoption hall of Fame
Many Minnesotans may not realize this, but our Sen. Norm Coleman was honored last Wednesday night for his dedication to adoption and foster care issues through his work in the U.S. Senate. I was flattered by an invitation to present him with the honor of being inducted into the Adoption Hall of Fame, as the award could go to a no more deserving man.

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It’s back to normal on CBS tonight, which means the criminally insane will be ranting on mindlessly as people watch in horror. But enough about Big Brother; let’s discuss Criminal Minds and CSI: NY, both with their first post-strike episodes tonight.
On Criminal Minds, the rest of the BAU team step in to assist Rossi (Joe Mantegna), as he decides to reopen a case from his first go-round at the FBI that focuses on the murder of two young parents. If this represents the show starting to close the book on Rossi’s long alluded to emotional scars, then that would be wise, because it doesn’t seem like most viewers much care. Nicholas Brendon of Buffy fame, the nice geek who filled in for Penelope after she was shot, is back tonight as well.
The good people of CSI: NY get an anonymous tip that leads them to an abandoned warehouse in search of the Second Life assassin that we first encountered in the fall. I don’t know that this plot was ever so entertaining for most fans that revisiting it six months later makes a lot of sense, but this show usually beats whatever ABC and NBC have on at this time, so the producers might know what they’re doing. I wonder what happens if the real-world killer is found, but remains at large in cyberspace?
America’s Next Top Model (CW, 8 PM): On a very special Guantanamo episode of ANTM, the models are photographed lying face down in water; the remaining girls are split into two teams for go-sees. I never realized go-see was even a noun until this show began.
Big Brother 9 (CBS, 8 PM): Either Joshuah or Sharon will be voted out. Sharon’s solicitude for those guinea pigs is a little bit frightening. It’s like the first stages of watching someone unravel in a horror movie.

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