Seriously pissed? How about serious change? Decades from now, no one will accuse our generation of
not protesting enough, but you'll probably be making excuses for
how we did it. No offense to those who
have protested this way- your heart's in the right place and you've probably given lots of time and money to doing the right thing- but what if you're not helping? What if hundreds of thousands of people turned out in their very best, most serious clothes, with no puppets, no "clever" home-made signs, and no instruments?
It's worked before. As
Matt Taibbi put it in AdBusters (previously on MeFi), "Next thing you know, you’ve got guys on stilts wearing mime makeup and Cat-in-the-Hat striped top-hats leading a half-million people at an anti-war rally. Why is that guy there? Because no one told him that war is a matter of life and death and that he should leave his fucking stilts at home." These things always
start small, but who knows? This is serious- let's act like it. If you wouldn't bring it or wear it to your grandmother's funeral,
leave it at home.
posted by paul_smatatoes
on Sep 30, 2007 -
168 comments
It puts the lotion in the basket. [nsfw] You know how in that movie,
The Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer they're trying to catch is skinning women because he wants to make a suit out of
real girls? If this product was around, perhaps we could have saved the lives of a lot of fictional victims.
posted by Sully
on Jul 25, 2007 -
81 comments
"You look like a pimp," said the principal of a Chattanooga school to a student who wore a suit to graduation. Girls in gowns were also forbidden to walk across the stage to get their diplomas. Other than wearing, say, a chicken suit or something, can one be too dressed up for graduation?
posted by Oriole Adams
on May 19, 2003 -
47 comments
Google runs into Copyright Dispute... Does the Church of Scientology have a leg to stand on in suiing Google for linking to church documents? Be sure to check out
Operation Clambake, the site in question who claims all documentation on their site is
", is allowable under the "fair use" provisions of internationally recognized copyright law". If it is truly a question of copyright, shouldn't the Scientologists be suing the
site in question and not Google????
When Google removed the link, it outraged the technology community - can Google win in this case??? Check out what
Don Marti has to say about the issue...
posted by gloege
on Apr 22, 2002 -
1 comment
