While our rights are steadily eroded in the halls of Congress, the minions of fascism have been very busy this month on my local suburban streets. Their little trucks have been everywhere, administering to the telco infrastructure like bees to a well flowered meadow. Verizon and Optonline are the two big providers in my area, and if I was supposed to think that whatever they were doing over the last few weeks to our local wires boded any kind of well for me and mine, sorry to say but that wasn't going to happen.
But then Thor decided he'd had about enough of this.
An outrageous thunderstorm hit Nassau County, Long Island on Saturday night/Sunday morning, knocking out power to thousands of people including most of the city of Glen Cove, and blowing away the 911 system for the county for several hours.
One of the more local effects was that a telephone pole got zapped, either by a direct hit or as a result of gigantic falling pieces of a tree nearby which was thoroughly splintered. It happens that this particular pole was one that the busy little Verizon bees had been hovering around for most of the last two weeks. They haven't been back since. I suppose they are a bit scared. ;-7
Being a practitioner of the old Germanic/Norse religion as well as an IT professional with 20 years in the business, I could not help but see a certain amount of humor in this. So I decided to quite literally take it and run with it. The pole, of course - that is, the rather large top section that was hit by lightning.
I took the Thor-touched trophy of the war on fascist stupidity and brought it to my house, where I set it up in my front yard and began attaching signs to it.
So here is the entire wacky phone pole in all it's glory:
It's good to know that at least one God is on our side. Hail Thor!