Or maybe ... yes! A Really BIG pair of sunglasses

Now, according to the Guardian, our very own government here in the USA wants scientists to research the use of giant space mirrors or reflective dust (or maybe a giant bottle of sunscreen) to combat global warming. This is going way beyond parody and into slapstick. Our entire government has become a Leslie Nielson movie.

I do like the note of desperation though. [purses lips] "Please don't make us give up fossil fuels." They're actually going to the UN with this. I'm not sure how much longer I can survive the humiliation. I feel like that cat in the Tom and Jerry cartoon who kept putting the bag over his head.

Of course, what this really is is hippie-hatred. Things like solar panels and hybrid cars, they're pure hippie as far as the right is concerned and thus to be forever opposed. When you think about it, read between the lines and the thing that drives the establishment, whether government, media, what have you, is the desire not to be hippies, to be connected to hippieness or to be infected in any way with dirty, pinko hippie germs. It explains "pro-war," the opposition to universal health care, the opposition to sex ed, the opposition to choice, flag-burning amendments, the opposition to the minimum wage, the opposition to breastfeeding in public, gay marriage bans, everything.

The name changes (radical, anarchist, socialist, communist, hippie) but one way or another, these guys have been fighting the hippies in their nightmares since the first spliff was sparked, and that goes a way back.

Someday, they're going to find out that, ideologically speaking, the "hippies" are the majority. I hope like hell to be around when that day comes.