He doth protest too much
Where do they find these people? [link stolen from a gazillion other blogs]
I do like the guy in the second picture, the one with the suggestion that we should destroy the U.S.A. Now there's a rallying cry that Americans can get behind. You let us know how that goes, buddy.
I know that there are wackos from all over the social/political spectrum (good old Fred Phelps has been in the news lately too, it seems). But the seemingly ubiquitous college-student Marxist has always been my least favorite type of wacko.
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The commentator -- the guy who wrote up the site -- needs to remove that gigantic spiked pole from his posterior, was the main thing I noticed about it all.
I mean, seriously, he's a grade-A, head-of-the-class asshole.
You find strange and improbable things at protest rallies, yes. But I'm not sure any of them is as much of a sad waste of human life as the guy who spent all that time taking pictures and mocking them on his web site.
Ed:
Gratuitously asserted; gratuitously rejected. Sorry we disagree, but I do like your programming-themed web log.
Ed,
The rally report is political humor and commentary, pretty mild by most standards, reporting on the public activities of the far-fringe elements of the liberal spectrum. Most of the pictures manage to speak for themselves. Surely somebody who exercises their right to walk around with a fake George Bush head planted on a stake should be prepared to endure some mockery from people who find that ridiculous?
If you don't find it funny or worthwhile, that's fine. But calling somebody a "sad waste of human life" over it is pretty inappropriate, IMO.
I couldn't disagree with Ed more. I guess one person's a--hole is another person's comedy gold. If I had a camera to capture morons comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler, I would think it my duty to preserve that image and share it with as many people as possible, which would probably be through my blog.
As an aside, I think that anyone of us who starts telling another person his or her blog post was a waste of time ought to look through our own blog archives and ask ourselves if we haven't wasted a portion of our lives on a meaningless post or two. Maybe all of Ed's blog posts are of dire import, but I know mine aren't.
"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 377 (1927)