Old Shoe
I see on my CNN web page that another shoe has been tossed…”in protest.” This one aimed at Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboao. In case you forgot the last most recent shoe was cast at George W. Bush.
I was just commenting on episode 91 of Skepticality regarding a couple of inebriated foul-mouthed girls-gone-wild who tried to storm the Discovery Institute to hurl scorn and disdain at ii and it’s occupants.
I am often one of the first to chirp up, in Post-man-esque (Costner not Troisi) rhetoric, that “stuff’s gettin’ better, all the time.” But these recent events disappoint me.
What has become of the legacy of non-violent protest that has this year gained us such a remarkable victory as Barak Hussein Obama, as president of the United States?
To me the shoe throwers only hurt their own position by resorting to violence, as the drunken frat girls only damage the reputation of the skeptical community by being such boors. The first is clearly assault and the offenders should be punished for such. The second, is harder to file, but is disdainful none the less.
If you have better ideas, really better. Ideas that will prove to improve the world, life for humankind, that should be enough. You need not and should not muddle them up with bad behavior.