Poetic: Hippies Shut Down South Street

Here’s a bunch of protesters at Saturday’s Global Cannabis March down South Street. “THC, Fine by me!” was apparently this year’s chant du jour. The best sign I saw in there was “Hey America, let’s blow this joint: Liberate marijuana!”

And, yes, I’m still blogging at Drug Roar with the green and the pot logo and the hey hey. This week’s column is about criminalization of salvia divinorum (and other drugs) as a tool of first resort. It turned out okay.

War Supporters Adopt Lofty Rhetoric

The great thing about this country is the freedom to say whatever you want. We Americans have the right to protest anything; with more voices added to the debate, the political discourse shall be elevated.

Such is the case in West Chester, where peace groups have been protesting the Iraq War like every weekend. Rich Davis, a Navy vet, decided he wanted to protest for the war, and he told the newspaper, “The reason I’m here is that [they're] here every week, which I think is protest abuse.”

Protest abuse! And recently, the pro-war group came up with this oh-so-clever chant:

“Hey hey, ho ho, stinking hippies have got to go!” they proclaimed.

And the Iraq War went on forever and ever and ever.

Protester Faceoff Gradually Escalates [The Bulletin]

Allentown Hippies Safe From Bear Attacks

Breathe easy, stoners of the exurbs! You are now free to play disc golf without the threat of black bears.

A black bear — not to be confused with a cougar, a coyote or a puma, other frequent (”frequent”) area terrorists — was seen in the Lehigh Valley area, eating out of bird feeders and scaring away salmon.

But tensions reached new heights when he was spotted on a disc golf course at Upper Macungie Park, leading a coalition of stoners, hippies and stoner hippies to protest for a bear patrol. Now they may play their impossible sport in peace.

Black Bear Caught Near Lehigh Co. Disc Golf Course [CBS 3]

Peace, Love, Understanding No Longer Funny

I really can’t do much but reproduce the headline to this great opinion piece:

Okay, let me quote my favorite line, too:

Their BAWL (Buddha-Allah-Wicca-Lenin) is better than some old Judeo-Christian God.

Thank you, Jenean Mcbrearty. Trees really did deserve to die for this column.

Hippies still trying to ruin the country [Lexinton Herald-Leader]

Bonus! Our Fave Craigslist Postings Of The Day

• Are you looking for a new job? NBC 10 has an opening for an online news editor! The station is looking for someone “to write local stories, blogs, podcasts(from TV scripts, wire copy and interviews) and produce multimedia for NBC 10 (WCAU), located in the TV newsroom in, Bala Cynwyd, near Philadelphia.” Wait… online news editor… blogs… oh shit! Does this mean the end of Teresa Masterson?!?! Update: Hmm. It seems not. Phew.

• One of the best missed connections the world will ever read: “it seemed like we were hitting it off. but then I disappeared for a while and we didn’t get a chance to exchange numbers. you were tall, blond hair, wearing an abercrombie tank top. I was the girl in the blue halter top, who had sex with your friend.”

• Premium Mortgage is looking for a bilingual loan officer to give a loan to some very large Mexican immigrants who are going to hit Joe Vento over the head with foam bats.

• Someone searching for Craigslist for Hippies: “We are wondering if anyone knows of any similar types of websites like craigslist but with a kind of alternative slant to it, by alternative, we mean things like eco friendly, alternative energy, new agey, peace loving, spiritual, yoga, vegetarian, meditation, etc.. you get the picture.” Yes, because Craigslist is just spewing out carbon into the air 24/7, y’know?

• And, finally, a note from Raj Bhakta: “In response to Senator Biden’s callous remarks, the Raj for Congress campaign is asking you for $7.11.” Uhh, sure dude. Whatever.

Metro Breaks Stereotypes, And Plays Into Them

Yuk, yuk. But wait. Isn’t Metro supposed to be the lame, all-wire-and-just-a-lil’-local newspaper? (They actually have more staffers here than you’d think. But that doesn’t mean that’s not how people see it.) It’s small, it’s generic, it’s not going to surprise you, right?

Could you imagine the Inquirer writing something like that? Probably not. Daily News, maybe, but they’re too obsessed with getting the word ‘balls’ in the paper.

And remember, last year, Metro wrote “We hate to even think about how many people are going to get laid this weekend at Philcon, the annual science-fiction and fantasy convention being held this weekend. But we bet tons,” and ended up running the weirdest apology/correction I’ve ever seen. What does this all mean?

Basically, all we need to do is wait for the hippies to get pissed, and we’ll get another fun correction. Unless, of course, Metro means hemp necklaces.

Dec. 14: Breaking: Nerds even nerdier than once thought