Chandra & I were driving home, and noticed a lone demonstrator with signs in support of the Iraq War, wearing a starts & stripes bandanna and generally attired as you would expect any red-blooded jingoistic American. I referred to him as a "jackbooted moron," which after a pause got a laugh from Chandra. Personally, I don't find such creatures funny, but I would never turn my back on a line that gets an audible laugh from schnookums.
Still, I must re-iterate that jackbooted morons, whether they are rampaging cops in Houston or the wannabes in Washington, or misguided souls like the demonstrator in Athens, are not amusing. It's thanks to those jackasses (and their enablers) that we are now a nation that tortures innocent people, locks up protesters, and invades countries that have done nothing to us.
Posted by Jason at October 17, 2006 09:19 PM