Posted by
This Guy on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:08:47 PM
In times as confusing as these, it's nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I'm in need of a little truth and wisdom. That's why I love bumper stickers.
A great way to start the morning, and a nice bookend after work, I find my commute to and fro chock full of Enlightened Commentary and Deep Utterances of Truth, all supplied by the true patriots kind enough to serve their country by volunteering space on their vehicles for all manner of revelatory reading material.
For example, this morning I learned that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Previously, I had the backwards notion that the quality of one's dissent was connected in some way to the topic with which one was dissenting, but in one brief lane change, my fellow American simultaneously taught me that it's always in the country's best interest for me to express disagreement, and encouraged me to brake rapidly.
I also learned that war isn't the answer. I'm not sure what the question is, but at least I've had one possible response completely eliminated for me, right off the bat.
Also, I learned that God said "Thou shalt not kill". I always thought the commandment said
something about murder, but happily my heresy has been corrected by a thoughtful motorist.
I used to spend a lot of time mulling over all the bits of information I collected throughout the day, but now I've realized that's all been wasted energy! Now that I have a virtually unlimited supply of Wisdom conveniently packaged and presented to me twice a day, I'm about to have a whole lot more free time. And I'm going to use all that free time to create the perfect nation where our schools have billions of dollars to waste and the military has to hold a bake sale to buy all of its supplies.