The craze in recent months has been to climb the New York Times 8th Ave building in order to bring attention to ones pet cause.

Recent climbers include French climber and daredevil, Alain Robert, Brooklyn copycat Renaldo Clarke and David Malone of West Hartford. While Robert and Clarke were promoting causes, Malone was promoting his book. Malone’s move was described as unusual because while other authors aim at climbing the New York Times’ best-seller lists, Malone choose to climb the New York Times building itself.

Had I not been afraid of heights… because there is no parking space in the air; if not that had I not been afraid of ladders… because a stumble could lead to death; if I climb the New York Times building, these are the causes I may try to promote as soon as I get to the roof of the 52-story building. There I will display a banner that will say:

•Autism is not natural. It is caused by something. And somebody knows what it is. He just ain’t telling.
•If Kosovo could be a separate country of its own, why not Biafra?
•Support People for the Ethical Treatment of Witches (PETW).
•Cloth the bones, Feed the Models.
•Dear Media people, what happened to the Avian flu that was supposed to wipe us out?
•If your mechanic is not your doctor, how come your marriage counselor is your Rev. Father?
•If the American dollar is soft currency and the British pounds sterling is hard currency, what then is the Zimbabwean money? Toilet currency?
•What if your phone stores all the conversations you ever had somewhere?
•We protect the Ivory, we protect the rain forest, but who is protecting the indigenous people?
•If your God is great, why do you have to fight for him?
•I wash my rented car, what about you?
•Support the natural character of our Zoo. Keep Hugo Chavez alive.
•If Tom Cruise is the greatest movie star in the world, how come he is so short?
•Who is more dangerous? Someone who has used nuclear weapon before or someone who might use it in the future?
•If our scientists are that smart, how come they can’t make petrol/gas in the laboratory?
•If your religion is peaceful, why must you kill in its name?
•Do you know how many people AIDS killed today? Do you care?
•What did we ever do when we had no cell phones?
•Someone knows what is causing all the cancer but he is not telling.
•Save a hungry writer – buy Children of a Retired God.
•Why is Al Qaeda not outraged that Muslims are killing other Muslims in Darfur?
•The world is obviously poorly governed. Isn’t it time to try the government of scientologists?
•What if your TV can see you and hear all you say in your house?
•If the world out there, of galaxies and stars is shrunk to planet earth size. The earth will be like a bus on the road. And we, on earth, will be like ants on a bus. How does that make you feel? Small?