Posted by The Sticker on December 3rd, 2007
There’s something kind of sexy about a tree hugger. It’s not for nothing that people talk about getting a “woody”, or that the ancient Greeks imagined that sexually attractive spirits lived within trees. Trees are phallic, penetrating the sky and earth alike.
Right wingers are out of touch with this natural symbolism of sexuality. They’re so much into dirty, stinking oil wells that I don’t think that they really have much fun in the bedroom. They mock environmentalists as “tree huggers”, and don’t realize that this very phrase reveals how much they’re missing the boat.
This t-shirt (made here in the USA, free of sweatshop child labor) takes the right wing insult and embraces it, much as environmentalists embrace trees: I don’t just hug trees - I kiss them too.
Posted by The Sticker on December 2nd, 2007
I was surprised, pleasantly, when I saw the news item from the Kucinich for President campaign entitled, “If you love Joe Biden, you’ll love Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, and Dodd – but not Kucinich”.
All the other major Democratic presidential candidates have been quoted by the Joseph Biden for President campaign - as agreeing with Biden’s foreign policy. Dennis Kucinich alone has the courage to point out what’s wrong with Biden’s pro-war foreign policy history.
The Kucinich campaign writes:
The Congressman has the utmost respect for Senator Biden and his years of service to the nation. He just happens to be wrong on some very major issues; and, if the other candidates agree with him, then they’re wrong, too.
They voted to authorize the war in Iraq. They approved continued funding of the war. They voted for the Patriot Act. They supported trade agreements that have had a devastating impact on American workers. They have failed to challenge the President and the Vice President for their unrepentant and continued violations of the U.S. Constitution.
I chose the progressive button design you see here at the top of this article because it shows Dennis Kucinich looking where the other Democratic presidential candidates don’t have the courage to look: To the left.
