A recent survey given to MARTA riders to determine their food and drink preferences came back stating that the most desired items were water, juice and fresh fruit.  In that order.  “Packaged candies and snacks” came in fourth.

Which raises the question, “Are MARTA riders just naturally healthy or do they, like most of their impressionable species, just respond to surveys with answers they believe people want to hear and not what they actually desire?”

Mingei World Arts writes in and lets everyone know that Atlanta INTown has a bunch of Decatur businesses on it’s multiple choice list of “Best of the Holidays” survey.

Hoopla, Greene’s, Heliotrope, Cook’s Warehouse and Mingei have all been nominated.

I noticed almost-Decatur Wag-a-Lot on there too.

Emory just sent out this crime report [via Clairmont Heights Civic Assoc], which many of the major news outlets are now rewriting into little story blurbs.

October 26, 2009. To the Emory Community: This message is being provided to the Emory community as a public service. Two crimes recently were reported as occurring outside of the University’s campus, but the locations were close enough that we wanted to alert you to exercise caution when in those areas, particularly after dark.

• On Sunday, October 25, at approximately 9 p.m., an Emory student reported being robbed at gunpoint in front of her apartment building at Clairmont Reserve Apartments, across from the Clairmont Campus. The woman, whose purse was stolen, was not physically harmed. The assailant escaped in a red, two-door vehicle. A description of the assailant was not available.

• On Friday, October 23, at approximately midnight, a woman reported being robbed at gunpoint on the sidewalk in front of 1450 N. Decatur Rd near the Oakdale Rd. intersection. The woman, whose purse was stolen, was not physically harmed. The two assailants were described as:

• A black male, about 30 years old, 6’4”, 170 lbs., green shirt, light-colored pants;

• A black male, 6’0”, light-colored jeans, white/blue/red plaid shirt, white skull cap with blue stripe.

Both incidents are being handled by the DeKalb Police Department. Anyone having information relevant to these incidents is encouraged to call the DeKalb Police Department at 770-724-7850.

In juxtaposition to that, my weekly email from CrimeReports.com shows no real crime inside the Decatur city-limits in the past week. Apparently the email isn’t all that accurate in reporting what’s actually on the map.

Ah, but not the one you think.

What?  You thought I was going to do a straight up “who will you vote for poll?”?

Please.

I can already see all you scarily passionate candidate advocates deleting your cookies as many times as you physically can before the carpal tunnel sets in.  It would be worse than Afghanistan.

The trick with completely unscientific online polls is to only ask questions that no one has enough of a vested interest in to stuff the ballot box.