Simon, of The Dossing Times had the ingenious idea of responding to Enda Kenny’s suggestion to drug test schoolchildren with a petition to drug test Dail Eireann.

Then Damien Mulley had the brilliant idea of coming up with a logo to spread the word. So here it is, put together by myself, for anyone to use.

Feel free to grab the logo and put it in your sidebar of your website or blog, or put it in a blog post, or wherever you think it might be handy.

At the bottom of this post you will see three different sizes, 200 pixels wide, 150 pixels wide and 100 pixels wide. One of those should fit in your sidebar.

Please, please, please download them and put them on your site with a link to the petition so we can get as many signatures as possible to show Enda what we think of his suggestion.

If you have any difficulty in using them leave a comment and I’ll try to help you if I can.

There’s even an EPS version of the logo (900k) available for those who know what that is - so you can print out posters if you felt inclined!

Just spotted on Damien Mulley’s blog that Enda Kenny wants to drug test schooldkids and that there is a petition online which calls for politicians to be also drug tested.

If Enda Kenny is seriously suggesting this, then I absolutely think the same should be done in the Dáil. What insanity.

According to quotes, Kenny thinks drug testing will discourage drug taking due to peer pressure. This is a stinker of an idea. As several other have asked, what happens when a child is tested positive?

There must be a better way, as one commenter said over on politics.ie, incentivising those who could voluntarily produce a clean result might be a better approach. I certainly don’t see any benefit to going after schoolkids who are taking drugs - it will surely only lead to further alienation, resentment and truancy to avoid testing. Simon over on Irishelection.com makes a few good points on his post about it.

To quote a another commenter on Politics.ie:

40 years of criminalisation, hectoring, screeching, actual real wars, locking people up, cant, hypocrisy, and creating a powerful wealthy and violent criminal empire - while all the while drugs become cheaper, more available and more widely used - and what is your answer? We have to “accelerate” our right-wing codology and start criminalising our children. FFS. Catch a grip.

I’m sure nobody who knows me will be surprised to hear I would be against drug testing schoolchildren, but I also just finished reading the Corner - a book which highlights the failure of Americas ‘War on Drugs’. Let’s not make all the same mistakes over and over.

Is this just designed as an easy way to get concerned conservative parents emotionally invested in Kenny for the elections…?

Get a button for your sidebar and spread the word…!

Although Frank was bemused by the previous Pac-Man post, rumour has it he was type cast in this video after playing a similar part in a show that toured the country last year. The band are called “The Go! Team”. What were they like to work with Frank ?

I’ve been catching up on my RSS feeds today so here are a few bits of film news I thought people might be interested in.

Dan Akyroyd has confirmed a Ghostbusters 3. CGI apparently!

Rumour has it Harrison Ford may yet quit Indy 4.

Another rumour has JJ Abrams, director of Mission Impossible 3 and creator of Alias and Lost, quitting the 11th Star Trek movie but it’s not to be believed.

Russel Crowe is to star in a revisionist version of Robin Hood.

Disney have sold 1.3 million movie downloads on Apple’s iTunes. If only Hollywood had been quicker to embrace the internet? Ah well, it’ll never catch on…

One more that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Harvey Dent (alias Two-Face) will be appearing in The Dark Knight (sequel to Batman Begins). Casting rumours are rife but Edward Norton seems to be the favorite. Meanwhile in Bat-land Katie Holmes will not be reprising her role as Rachel Dawes, but the character will be back. Who will replace her? Rumours, rumours, rumours.

Check this out for more Dark Knight information.

This is an idea I have for a t-shirt, it’s a pretty simple idea but I like it a lot. The little fellow in green would be glow in the dark - the rest wouldn’t, and Ideally he wouldn’t look any different from them. I know glow in the dark stuff can tend to look greeny so I left him a different colour for now.

Not sure where the idea for this came from, or why it occurred to me - in fact, I had forgotten about it until I was looking through a notepad of mine and found the sketch for the ghost.

Eoin has a t-shirt with rows of sheep on it, with one wolf in sheeps clothing, that may have been a contributing factor to this idea. People seem to love noticing that wolf. This wouldn’t be quite the same, because the humour of the wolf isn’t there, it probably got me thinking about the whole ‘one of these things is not like the others‘ thing.

I also like the idea that the glow in the dark fellow would rarely have an opportunity to glow, kind of like a ‘hidden feature’ or something…

So what about it? Would anyone buy this t-shirt?