Ordinarily the day I am at the printer's, watching the latest edition of National Right to Life News roll off the press, TN&V is an article that appears in that issue. Today, inspired by a note in the online publication, "Slate," I thought I'd ask our devoted readers to do something similar to what the editors at Slate propose for their audience.

They have both an interesting idea and technology. The goal, in a collaborative way, is to have its readers "write this year's inaugural address." Not really, of course. Tongue in cheek they conclude that perhaps President-elect Barack Obama "will decide to borrow from your speech" when the 44th President delivers his January 20 inaugural address.

Slate will use something call MixedInk to cull and combine and credit. The crux is that there is a kind of cross-pollution of ideas at the end of which individual writers crank out a thoroughly pre-vetted "speech." Slate will publish the speech with the highest rating.

Well, we're not quite to that point, technologically. But, I very much would like for Today's News & Views readers to compose a "speech" for the most pro-abortion President ever and send it along to me.

It could combine any host of variables. For example, the address might include a sly admission that, "whoops, did I pretend to be searching for 'common ground'?"; an explanation of why he supposedly wants to "reduce the number of abortions" but opposes the Hyde Amendment and funding for crisis pregnancy centers which have saved millions of babies; an elaboration of why his hero, President Lincoln, freed the slaves but Obama is determined to continue treating unborn babies as their mother's property; or an explication of why the "Audacity of Hope" is fine for the planned and the perfect but not for babies (who did not will themselves into existence) who are "inconvenient"?

I have learned that my readers are dazzlingly articulate and brim-full of insights. Send your "speech" along, and I will extract parts of the most thoughtfully written. The address is daveandrusko@gmail.com.