Occasionally, he and I would sit down during those rare moments when a teenager suddenly has time to fit you into their extremely busy schedule and talk about substantive things... news, politics, girls, culture, society, buying him a new car...you know, the usual stuff.
I was always impressed at just how much he knew about what was going in the world. He never watched the news or read the newspaper. Where was he getting this stuff?!
To my surprise, my boy was tuning in to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on a daily basis! These guys made it fun, kept it light but conveyed the message. So hat tip to both of them for that.
The Stewart camp has orchestrated the Rally to Restore Sanity which is to take place today in our nation's capitol. I'm really liking the idea and what it represents - "Take It Down A Notch for America".
Stewart is offering to provide signs with the "appropriate" level of political emotion, such as "I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler."
You could also go with "I am not afraid of Muslims/Tea Partiers/Socialists/Immigrants/Gun Owners/Gay...but I am scared of Spiders."
There's too much infighting in these United States. The divisiveness and rift in the fabric of our nation and society is larger than anything I've ever witnessed in my life time.
If this group of toned down patriots can impress upon those we've seen in the past engaging in shouting matches and exercises in who's-balls-are-the-biggest to indeed ... t o n e it d o w n a notch, there may be hope for us after all.
