Oberon, thanks for the invite! I’m impressed to see the response so far, and high quality stuff.
Hey kids!
How about leaders who don’t need no stinkin’ handlers?
How about leaders who can function without a script and can host events without a script?
Course, we have to p i c k these people…I think in 2008 we’ve started on the right track.
Speaking of scripts, I think that theatre should be a compulsory subject in high school. That way we would learn to recognize theatrical devices, cutting through the caca, and figure out what’s really meant by the monologues of candidates and their various functionaries.
Think of it…any given schoolday, millions of our youth strutting around on stage crying ‘what’s my motivation?’ We used to have Civics class but it hasn’t worked so well; so give theatre a chance, I say!
The photos posted so far are all food for thought, though some would threaten contented dining! My ‘faves’ have got to be those of the Phelps family funeral pickets (they were here a few years ago in support of a Straight Power protester who was censored in his high school). Did it occur to anyone, seeing the photos, putting the children and the words on the signs together, that this was sexual abuse and exploitation of minors, and these folks could have gone right to the slammer? Adults have been sent up on those charges with far less evidence than that.
On with the show!