Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
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.
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”
I’m not in a position to judge what the best tshirt ever is, but this one would be among my nominations, to be sure. It features a handsome young boy, giving us the peace sign with his right hand, and a slogan written as a definition, “Pacifist: Someone with the nutty idea that killing people is a bad thing.”
The button links the Barack Obama for President campaign to the old story about America’s first President, George Washington. The story goes that, at a critical historical moment in the origin of the United States, Washington was looking at a chair that had, carved into it, the sun on the horizon. He looked at that sun, and asked whether he thought it was rising or setting, a meditation upon the fortunes of the United States itself.
The Creationists want us to pay taxes to teach religion in our schools, so why not have the reverse take place, and have churches pay for biology teachers to come and teach evolution in Sunday School?
Al Gore has plenty of grassroots support from Americans who recognize the seriousness with which he has argued for the recognition of the issue of global warming. As an author, a speaker, a filmmaker, and producer, Al Gore has shown the skill to persuade through facts, not faith-based shots in the dark.
A set of postcards metamorphosizes a pro-war slogan from weapons of mass destruction to wigwams of bass destruction. High linguistic playfulness. Far out.
Irregular Bumper Stickers