What is the Pink Triangle? I haven't seen any of those.

I think he means the rainbow triangle. And don't forget that fershlugginer "Hate Is Not a Family Value" - I don't recall anyone saying it was. When an entire ideology can be expressed by eight words on a bumper sticker, something is wrong - with the bumper sticker AND the ideology.

There are both pink triangles and rainbow stickers--I think Hitler made gays wear the triangles or something of the sort.

The Left likes simple slogans and simple symbols because evan a sentence would exceed the limit of the ability of most of them to handle a rational idea.

And you are right about the "Family Values" bumper sticker-- I can't think of a shorter phrase that packages up so many straw men, and lies, and so much bigotry, sanctimony and self-righteousness as that one.

("Fershlugginer"-- I loved those paperback reprints.)

"I can't think of a shorter phrase that packages up so many straw men, and lies, and so much bigotry, sanctimony and self-righteousness as that one."

How about "there are no atheists in foxholes".

The "athiests in foxholes" is lacking in smarminess, which is also why you don't see it on bumper stickers.

Nah, OJ is wrong on this one. To far too many folks, Bush Lied (tm). This underlying reality hasn't changed at all; the where and how can simply be revised to suit.

Unsurprisingly, the attack was incompetent. The shell was apparently a 'binary' weapon, designed to generate the sarin from two safe chemicals that would be mixed thoroughly only at the last moment as the shell spun after being launched from a rifled artillery piece.

If you just set it on the ground and blow it up, you get two harmless chemicals and a negligable amount of sarin. An explosive shell would at least have made a big boom.

John Barrett Jr.: The phrase 8 word bumper sticker comes from a NYTimes Magazine Article, to which I replied as follows:

In the article Notion Building (October 12, 2003) there is the following sentence "Conservatives, he [Podesta] went on, 'have their eight words in a bumper sticker: 'Less government. Lower taxes. Less welfare. And so on.' Where's our eight-word bumper sticker? Well, it's harder for us, because we believe in a lot more things.'" I think that he needs to work on his artihmetic, before he goes into running a think tank. There are nine words on that bumper sticker.

Did any of the networks lead with this story tonight? If not, all the anchors should resign, more out of incompetence than anything else.

The local TV news pooh-poohed it as an old shell from the 1980s Iran/Iraq war.

When I was in law school in Moscow, Idaho I once saw an old VW Bug with the most unusual combination of bumper stickers. The first read "Meat is Murder" and the second one on the other side read "Keep Abortion Safe and Legal".

The weirdest bumper sticker I ever encountered came when going to a Tigers games about a decade ago - "FUTURE RAPE VICTIM", in big letters. Why anyone would willingly identify themselves this way is utterly beyond me.

>The first read "Meat is Murder" and the second
>one on the other side read "Keep Abortion Safe
>and Legal".

I discovered these linkages many years ago:

Vegans are always pro-abortion.
Animal-rights Activists are always pro-abortion.
Anti-death-penalty activists are always pro-abortion.
Likewise "We Have To Save The Children, The Children, The Children" Kyle's Moms.