Our friends tell us a lot about who we are.

Here’s an example, Jackie Savitz over at Oceana is now on Twitter. She’s a well known environmental activist who doesn’t obscure the causes she supports or the campaigns she runs. She and I don’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues but such is life. I know basically where she stands on certain things and generally we disagree– nothing wrong with that.

But something about her Twitter account caught my eye; her very first follower would appear to be Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne. We’ve asked in the past whether Hawthorne was, like Savitz, an environmental activist or an independent journalist.

Just an observation in light of that ole’ birds of a feather saying.