For a few months I was having a hard time figuring out what those little blue decals were showing up on many of the cars on military bases.
I decided — incorrectly — that they were some sort of smug shorthand code for supporting the Global War On Terrorism, similar to the Human Rights Campaign’s yellow equal sign for gay, lesbian and transgender rights.
Finding a car with both stickers would be like discovering a lucky clover, or at least a Log Cabin Republican (equally rare).
You generally do not expect to see some things cross paths, like gunfire this weekend at the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle:
The fight occured during a relatively peaceful afternoon at the festival next to a drum circle . . . One man got into the suspect’s face, screaming, “This is a peaceful event!”
Last week I bought tickets to the Rock The Bells tour, after debating whether or not we would get stepped on too much in the general admission area near the stage. But now I can say that it is definitely going to be safer than a folk festival!
As a kid in Berkeley, there was always a Sunday drum circle on the lower level of Cal’s Sproul Plaza, mainly a bunch of weatherbeaten guys and the occasional dancing hippie chick. Today drum circles are some sort of audio acid test. Driving on base? Show your ID. Going to a demonstration of some sort? Please reveal yourself in bongo. So many codes to keep track of.
Still, back in Seattle, what is going through the mind of the green chicken thing guy as the suspect is being led away?
photo by Joshua Trujillo, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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The top sticker is the Thin Blue Line. Supposedly they let police officers know when other officers were around. Now everyone has them hoping that they can get out of a speeding ticket, and they can probably be used as a proxy measure for potential corruption in any given area. Washington DC is filled with them.