You can imagine my dismay as I strolled through Government Center on the way home from work when I saw all sorts of Tea Partiers, placards in tow, walking away from Faneuil Hall. I'd missed all the fun!
If you're not aware, these tea parties were organized for sites all across the country, as a protest of . . . I can't really say. Higher taxes on the wealthy? Mortgage cramdown legislation? The Wall Street bailout? Tariffs on newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards? Who knows. The whole movement has become a catch-all for all manner of glibertarian causes célèbres. And I wanted to watch!
I did manage to catch a few pithy signs. "Free markets, not free loaders" was a good one, but not as good as "I can stimulate myself." I ran into someone who was apparently a member of the "Tar and Feather Committee," carrying a large sign entreating her fellow citizens to impeach those responsible for TARP.
However, comma, the highlight of my early evening was walking by a long-haired, bearded gentleman with a professional-looking sign that read "It's time to water the tree of liberty," a sign which, for obvious reasons, I found to be long on rhetoric and short on sanity. So as I read, I shook my head and chuckled, not because I found anything particularly funny, but rather as a cloaking device to hide my dread. As I walked past, the young revolutionary looked me in the eye and thrust an object in my hand. This:
A free book! I had this guy all wrong. Sure, he implied that letting Congressionally approved sunsets on tax cuts for the wealthy take place was cause for bloody and violent revolution, but he gave me a free book. Dedicated readers of Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun know that my motto is "If it's free, it's for me." Will I read it? Eh. Probably not, although to paraphrase my boss, Ron Paul is a lunatic, but he's my kind of lunatic. Irregardless, I got something for free, so if you're reading, Angry-Sign-Carrying-Guy, thanks!
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