Signs highlighting demonstrations
Economics is our most devastating (long-term) strategy.
Either mindlessness or Bush? Remember the illegal 5,000. Living in indignation. What is dignity doing here?
Lunovis videt somnium. Would the devil? Still mopping up.
The moonsheep, dreaming, sees itself as universal space in Latin: lunovis videt somnium se culmen rer' ess' omnium, lunovis.
Bushites Ashcroft (soul like water).
Don't war.
Paper tiger No. 1 by mirror and Mao.
intellectual underwear.
sad and expensive portrait by van Gogh. Dissociate the (You know who they are) Bomb threats of America.
Don't WAR Joke Book "Such was the manner of his passing" Bible verse.
closer Joke Book
What new Vietnam war comedy team joke book is this?
Left edge: God Bless you, and that sanctimonious prick, your president, and also your worldwide roundup [Copyright 2001 Bruce P. Barten] was cut from 75 laminated cardstock nukerplunkers made early in 2001 with six tetrahedrons joined in a convolyted ring. Larger nukerplunker patterns made with 17-inch by 22-inch cardstock laminated together contained this text on eight tetrahedrons joined in a convoluted ring. Portions of the original 11-inch by 17-inch pattern were scanned and posted as pictures at an msn.com group discussing Nietzsche in an album called "Protest signs." Sometimes I have been able to find a page of my pictures by doing an internet search for "tossing the nukerplunker."
Look along the right edge of the picture below to see Jack Ruby pointing a pistol at
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Inside nukerplunker looking toward bathroom wall and towel rack.
Mop with headbands and nukerplunkers at the corner of my tub.
lady or the tiger, like a rocker riding a mirror, pipe cleaners for whiskers, thumbs up for magnification.
Want to borrow back my war?
No tanks waging war (cover portions of "God's chosen people are now waging war on earth").
No tanks waging war on earth. This series of pictures shows the end of the tub where the drain is, and anyone waging war ought to be concerned about what is being drained away when no one is getting a just peace.
Almost invisible on the wall at the back of the tub above is a picture by Egon Schiele made when he was in World War I, showing a sick Russian soldier, 1915. I was thinking that the Russian was a prisoner, since Austria was on the side which was fighting against Russia, and Egon Schiele's beautiful handwriting was needed by the Austrian army until he could find someone whose handwriting was just as good to replace him. Osama bin Laden might be sick, too, in 2006, but jihadis do not consider him a prisoner.
The question, "Want to borrow back my war?" was a difficult concept because at the height of ambivalence, it could mean, "Are you willing to take back the fight against godless Commies in order to fight for secular values against religious fanatics who consider America the great Satan and Dubya our el Diablo?" or it could be asking, "When Bush policies go to hell, do you still want the anti-war movement to be more unpopular than whatever war gets itself going in Iraq in the future, the way polls showed that anti-war demonstrations were more unpopular than the war in Nam itself, because current protesters, by thinking about American policy, violate the great groupthink eleventh commandment: THOU SHALT NOT THINK?" Nam might not be a problem for me if I actually forgot it, as the typical psychological approach to treating wars and failed relationships with women is supposed to work. Thinking that truth is a woman is doubly offensive when it suggests an obsessive relationship typically engaged in by complete idiots, like the failure to plan for anything besides sweetness and light, as Americans in Nam kept waiting for an army of Vietnamese to show up who would be able to do it all themselves, and it was the North Vietnamese Army that brought in tanks to do what they had not accomplished at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
"Back my war" is a reasonable expectation for any war that won't last longer than three weeks, but after three years and close to 3,000 lives of American troops, hardly anyone seems as stupid as American interrogators in Iraq who can't tell who is who. Detainees and enemy combatants are not terms that I have ever protested. I never actually intended to produce a coherent sign. Just thinking: "May Bushites flow from your John Ashcroft soul like water, a sure sign of Iraqi diarrhea" is far beyond any political position that an American party could adopt to win elections. I want to hold up a sign that means: you can't believe what I did, but you sure as hell won't believe what I said, just like old times.