The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #1598491
Posted By: Amos
06-Nov-05 - 12:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Somewhere in this broad land, protest is raising its angry head; some people are protesting one thing, some another. Wherever in this gentle land human life has been encroached upoin, toes stepped on, wrong characterizations offered, injustices promoted, crimes disguised, there you will find the clarion voice of Protest. For example, a friend of mine is protesting a traffic sign that was erected right in front of her front door by the road, without any consultation or agreement on her part. Someone else is protesting the nomination of Judge Alito. It doesn't matter whether the issue is large or small. Often, it doesn't matter whether the issue is even real, or wholly imaginary. Protest -- like justice -- is often blind.
An interesting study could be made in the ways people handle the feeling of protest; often they just stop their gobs and suck it up. Other times they make small suggestions. Sometimes they march, yell, wave banners or scream. Occasionally they (gasp) do something.
The other night my friend wanted to know how to renew the blade in a hacksaw. I wonder what her outlet of protest could be.
I may be offline sporadically this weekend -- my computer has been temporarily moved to the dining room with a long jury-rigged extension to the Ethernet running over the floor. After ten years of developing carefully nurtured stacks in every quarter, I have had to empty my office literally to the floorboards. Reason is we get new floor put into tit Monday. Meanwhile every stick of library and desks and stuff is stacked up in the garage.
Happy Saturday, Mom!! I saw your name today on a map of ancient Palestine. Right next to Edom.
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