A lot of people think nothing happens unless somebody leads and others follow, an organizational idea that comes out of the Roman military where its more effective to have a unit trained to advance its line at the same pace and strike as a unit at the fierce barbarians.
We often talk about how the Republicans march in lockstep and repeat the same talking points and manage to use the media like a shield wall to prevent their taking any hits no matter what charges get flung at them.
I'm going to challenge that idea and suggest that in an ungoverned land like the internet some of us anarchistic barbarian types not only know what needs to be done we are fully capable of recognizing it simultaneously and striking together without instruction or command like a hive of bees when its disturbed by a bear looking for honey.
A swarm of bees is worse than unguided missles like the slings and arrows that bounce off their armor.
Bees can go right through a shield wall, right through the defenses of a legion marching in lockstep and make many little stings that cause people to throw down their shields and run in panic.
Like bees humour can be devastating. It turns big scary monsters like Cheney into whipped little whiners.
We know about our own constitutional crisis, our own poor and sick and elderly whose dire straits were exposed by Katrina, we know about the Walmart bottom line and the Oil companies obscene profits, the death squads in Iraq, global warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, the world wide spread of AIDS, famine and drought in Africa, rising tensions everywhere as the struggle for resources becomes more desperate and all that can be depressing but a few good jokes and cartoons can take the edge off, so I'm gonna ask anybody who has a favorite to contibute it to the KOS.