SlowpokeBlog

I won’t be able to go to NYC next week, but here’s hoping we can stage a huge, peaceful demonstration like the tremendous March for Women’s Lives I attended in D.C. Over one million people of all ages attended, a huge slice of the real Middle America (not the bigoted “heartland” the Radical Right frequently refer to). Of course, the powers that be in NY are trying to do everything possible to ensure an ugly scene that will cast us in an unsympathetic light on TV.

My one piece of advice to protesters, which will doubtlessly go unheeded, is this: LOSE THE BONGOS. A vast majority of protesters will, thankfully, be bongo-free and are to be commended. But at any event like this, there will always be the dreaded drum circle, with its earnest bucket-pounding and dippy dancing. Stop it! Protests are not the place to get your groove on. The sooner the left sheds these flaky clichés, the better.