OMG what a crock. What a pathetic crock. I attended ANSWER's "Hands-off-Cuba! Hands-off-Venezuela!" protest today. I did it because I swore, I SWORE, to keep you people up to date on the goings-on of this sort in DC (where else would you get it if not here?). And this is what I get ... six (6) freaking hours of guys and chicks like this. Two (2) hours of that marching (!!!) from Malcomb (or is it Malcom ... I've seen it both ways) X Park to the White House by a most circuitous route which took us past the "Cuban Interests" delegation or whatever, a short harangue at the Washington Post offices (they need to tell the TRUTH about Cuba!) and thence to Lafayette Park for some stunningly boring speeches. I'm exhausted. I needed two Manhattans before I could even think of approaching this. Was it worth it? Just look: "1917". Priceless. Freaking priceless. He even posed ... twice ... the first one he had his eyes closed. He and his buddies spent most of the time debating "dialetic materialism" or some other BS Victorian crock orthodoxy off in the bushes, trying (I think) to impress some equally geeky chick contingent (or committee ... whatever) with their commitment to scientific socialism. PFFFFTH. Actually, that's pretty much what EVERYONE at this protest was doing whenever they got the chance ... you never saw so many talkative idiots so willing to share their particular moronic epiphanies in bladder-wrenching monologues. It's like ... OK ... I think I smoked THAT joint circa 1974. And yes, this was another geriatric wasteland. Go figure. I do have about an hour's worth of video I need to sift through, so I won't have any of that up until ... er ... tomorrow I think. Please check back for updates. Don't get me started on the signage. At least there weren't any puppets. This was the worst of the bunch ... let's just get that over with. What happened here? Left-over Home Depot spray-paint on extra middle-school-project poster board? Some of the stuff was of this variety, although most of it was pre-printed. I think these guys are starting to wise-up. This guy came with a group of other Grizzly Adams "do-it-yourselfers". I'll include the other posters in the update. That little blob at the bottom-right is like a baseball-card sized photo of Bush with some text. How bloody superfluous. I'm just trying to get on the board here, folks. More to come. About an hour into this disaster I started collecting "Che" images. You wouldn't believe how many different ways there are to visually honor this murderous half-shaven bastard. I'll put my collection up as an update later on ... this is just to whet the appetite... Please check back. I even caught a sitting DC Councilman in the throes of "Viva Cuba" ... what a town. Statehood. Yeah.