Happy Halloween.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007—AMERICA LOVE IT:
Pickup trucks are, in America, the perfect canvas for patriotism. I am the owner of an (unadorned) truck myself, so I can well appreciate the sheer square footage available for expressions of national loyalty. On a compact car, you can manage a few bumper stickers, a magnetic ribbon -- the usual, which is not quite as good as a t-shirt, since t-shirts can have far more complex messages than a bumper sticker, and better than a lapel pin, since lapel pin messages are pretty much restricted to "flag -- I has one".
But a pickup is a grand canvas indeed, and the messages can be varied. In the lowest form, truck art takes the form of a cartoon Calvin pissing on something. The things Copyright Infringement Calvin will piss on seem endless — hey, he's a rebel, he doesn't even care about copyright law, he doesn't follow your rules -- but his hatred primarily centers around other brands of trucks.
Confederate flags are an infrequent but still familiar choice, even here in California. I have no idea why a confederate battle flag would have any emotional attachment for a California truck driver, aside from the most obvious interpretation, but there it is. "Cowboy Up" is quite popular, as are other forms of implying cowboy or cowgirlship while on the way to picking up overpriced milk at the ol' Circle K.
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Tweet of the Day:
The carnival gypsy with the tarot cards was all we needed in my day. Now they have these huge cable networks doing the same job.
— @cdashiell via web
Today's
Kagro in the Morning show featured the first post-Sandy visit with
Greg Dworkin. Then, both Romney & Ryan staged "storm relief" events & both got panned. Hear how work stopped so the candidates wouldn't miss photo ops! Forget that the Red Cross says what's needed is money, not stuff. Central casting says you're getting soup! Mockable, yes, but there's always a larger point.
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