#1:  “I’m gonna get drunk, then go to the protest, than get drunk again.”

I don’t want to paint the whole gambit as that, but there is a bit of that surrounding it.  I want to like this thing more than I do.  But I watched a swarth of it.  What I saw was one sign after another pointing this as a Left Wing self parody.  There was a whole swarth who did not not seem to be taking the thing seriously — it was along the lines of the Jon Stewart rally except pointed toward

“I AM Keeping Portland Weird”
I don’t know what to make of “4 Day School Week”.  Is that a sort of… pro-4 day week in line with, like the push for the 30 Hour Work Week, or is that protesting potential budget cuts?

“Free Mumia”… and then we’re stuck in…

#3:  “I like my political movements to be … specific about things.”

Yeah, I know.  It’s unspecified nature is by design.  Thy”re building “room” for “things” and “stuff”.  But…

And I see this guy.  He is dressed up in the Guy Fawkes costume.  And he has a sign.  And the sign says… “!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?”
I couldn’t agree more!

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