Eric Ringham: Is my approval rating listing -- or just me?

Hey, you guys, this Facebook online computer virtual social network thing you suggested is great. What a campaign tool! My first term on the county board, and already I've got more friends than Hubert Humphrey ever did. :)! Hahaha.

But a lot of my friends are getting "tagged" (what's that mean?) and "poked" (what's THAT mean?) and being given drinks (I know what that means). What am I doing wrong? Nobody has sent me a drink. Nobody's tagged or poked me. A constituent did invite me to play Scrabble, but after a couple of days she stopped paying attention to the game.

Anyway, I see a lot of people getting tagged in "25 things" lists, and the deal seems to be that if you get tagged, then you have to write a list of 25 things about yourself. So in case I get tagged, here's a draft I've been messing around with. I think it's a good way to get my message out:

1.I never wanted to hold public office, but my friends kept asking me to run for the county board. I said LOL, people, cut it out! But they wouldn't.

2.The stimulus program is going to ruin our economy.

3. I will fight for every dime of stimulus money coming to us.

4.Facebook makes it too easy to change your relationship status. I think it's one reason for our high divorce rate. I can prove it, probably.

6.My friends have been urging me to run for mayor of Duluth.

7.The first clue my wife wanted a divorce was when she changed her relationship status to "it's complicated."

8.She told me she was leaving to spend more time with family. When I pointed out that I WAS family, she said she was leaving to pursue exciting opportunities.

9.Snow emergencies are just a way for the government to print money.

10.My daughter has a movie called "10 Things I Hate About You."

12. My favorite movie is "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." BTW, many of my friends have been urging me to go to Washington.

13.I try to dance like no one is watching but people look at me like I'm a freak.

14.I am the change you've been waiting for.

15.If we let school districts begin the year in August, we should pass a law requiring schools to schedule field trips to the State Fair.

16. I know what Bill Murray whispers to Scarlett Johansson in "Lost in Translation."

18.I know why seagulls congregate in parking lots.

19.I mailed the Dalai Lama a DVD of "Groundhog Day." I never heard back.

20. You'll take away my pit bull when you pry him from my cold, dead fingers.

21.Medical marijuana will just give people incentives to get cancer.

22.Many of my friends have urged me to submit my name as a compromise candidate in the U.S. Senate race.

24.I like "24."

25.I had no desire to write a list, but all my friends urged me to.