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Editorial
Hello and welcome!
Well, there isn't anything in current events
that has set me off on a rant for this month, so maybe its about time
for something lighter to grace my editorial again. Quite possibly
everyone has seen a short little piece on CNN about the wit desplayed
on the signs carried by the current crop of anti-war protestors. Even
if you don't agree with the protesters, you'll have to admit that they
have some talented minds among them. Luckily for me, the nice people
over on the Larry Niven mailing list collected a listing of these
slogans. I'd like to quote them for your entertainment. Please join me
in thanking the Niven List folks for their work in making this listing.
And thank the protesters themselves for being so inventive.
War Is SO 20th
Century
Don't Mess With
Mesopotamia
Draft The Bush Twins
War Is A Dick
Thing, Peace Is A Heart Thing
Bush does for
Christianity what Bin Laden does for Islam
When Bush Comes To
Shove
Brains Not Bombs
Goddess Bless the
Whole Wide World
George Dubya:
Weapon Of Mass Distraction
Beat The Bushes For
Peace
Weapons Of Mass
Destruction: Look Under The Bushes
Drop Bush, Not Bombs
Evolve! Work For A
Non-violent Future
If War Is The
Answer, We're Asking The Wrong Question
Killing Innocent
People Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Save America, Spare
Iraq, Make Texas Take Him Back
Real Patriots Drive
Hybrids
Drop Names, Not
Bombs
Who Would Jesus
Bomb?
Stop Mad Cowboy
Disease
George Bush
Couldn't Run A Laundromat
Bush Is A Servant
Of Sauron. We Hates Him!
There Is No Path To
Peace - Peace IS The Path
Justice Or Just Us?
Tame The Tyrant In
The Mirror, Then The One In Iraq
Cheney, Bush,
Rumsfeld: Axis Of Weasel
Go Solar, Not
Ballistic
Nonviolence, Not
Nonexistence
A Village In Texas
Has Lost Its Idiot
How Many Lives Per
Gallon?
Make Alternative
Energy Not War
How Did Our Oil Get
Under Their Soil?
Regime Change
Begins At Home
More MPGs, Less MIAs
Rich Man's War Poor
Man's Blood
Our Grief Is Not A
Cry For War
Smart Bombs Don't
Justify Dumb Leaders
We Have Guided
Missiles And Misguided Men
Who's The Unelected
Tyrant With The Bomb?
Peaceful Solution
Not Daddy's Retribution
All Humanity Is
Downwind
If You Are Not
Outraged You Are Not Paying Attention
Ariel Sauron -
Needs $12 Billion more for the armies of Mordor
Let's Try
Preemptive Peace
There were many more signs on the list, but
these that I quoted are some of the best and most inventive ones.
Feelings run high on both sides of the question of war. No matter how
you personally feel, please make your feelings known to your
governmental representatives. You have a right to express your
opinions, but you should express them where it will do the most good.
Its a big world out there, but we are all connected in some way. Let's
try to think of a way to make it a better world, too.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled
fiction...
Thanks for your time,
Dan
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