Eagle-eyed contributor Ashley Dreyfus spotted an interesting flyer in Mark’s Cafe. She reports:

Thursday will bring vodka parties, but why not ease into Fling with a Wednesday tea party?  This Wednesday a.k.a. April 15th a.k.a. Tax Day, Love Park will host tea festivities in an attempt to…send some message to Congress about taxes or something? Ok, we don’t exactly know what the purpose is, something to do with exposing “the bankrupt liberal agenda of the White House Administration and Congress,” but it sounds like a good excuse to grab a bag of Earl Grey (or Green Tea for the Buddhists out there) and head down there to see what all the fuss is about. (Too bad Tucker Carlson won’t be in town until the next day!)

If you can’t make it or don’t feel your $0.65 tea bag is worth the effort, but your state’s representatives are really pissing you off, you can always join in by sending him or her some virtual tea bags to show your disapproval.

Saucy, sassy and all-around fabulous Street editor and DP columnist Julie Steinberg managed to score an interview with our crush of crushes, Anderson Cooper, when he was on campus yesterday.  Here’s what he had to say.

UTB: What was your favorite story to report or break?
AC360: Hurricane Katrina was a really clear instance where authorities weren’t reporting what was happening on the ground. What the authorities were saying was plainly different than what was actually happening. There was a great need for reporters on the ground.

UTB: What the most physically or emotionally challenging story you’ve ever done?
AC360: I spent three years reporting in Somalia and Rwanda. I was there for the famine in Somalia and the genocide in Rwanda — those two places had the most impact.

UTB: If you hosted a dinner party, which three literary or historical figures would you invite?
AC360: I’m a bit of a social recluse, so it would probably be hard to have a dinner party, and I also don’t cook, so it would be a disastrous dinner party.
UTB: OK, what about a tea party?
AC360: Tea party I could do. Hmm, that’s a tricky question. I would invite Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain and James Joyce.

UTB: Would you ever go back to work for the CIA?
AC360: Not in a million years. I had a summer internship there, and I didn’t choose to work there then, so I wouldn’t do it now.

UTB: Would you ever consider running for president? Maybe in 2012? Or, how about now?
AC360: Never. I would be a terrible politician. It’s hard to speak with your heart when there are so many competing interests.