Protestors sit w/their hands cuffed in front of the White House as a plastic flag waves in the foreground. This was also from Wednesday night, as was the pic at right which shows the same view except totally obscured by the flag. Notice that the flag has turned the White House blood red. Ahem.

A comment on yesterday's pic led me to this account of someone who was at the protest, and the comments there led me to the blog of a self-described blue collar drummer and chef who seems to have a lot of hostility toward people who disagree with him.

Why so angry? I wonder. And then I realize that people like this are probably angry for reasons very similar to mine: They think that if those who disagree with them were in charge, more people would die and the world would be a much worse place overall. The thing is, we've been mostly living in their “we must respond with force” world for, oh, centuries, and guess what? It hasn't really worked so well. Why don't we give something else a try?