Doone: someone who is "out to lunch"

A spoof is unconditionally a good thing, all things religious deserve a spoof, everything political deserves a spoof. Otherwise we think we are it and we are not. Even though R-Rateable, the recent spoofs parodying Hitler on YouTube were outlandishly imaginative and funny.   

Though the Occupy Wall Street movement won’t last long because it seems to be noise without mind and voice, it’s a good thing because gross and growing economic inequality and consummate greed warrant protest. But also because it shows the world peaceful protest in free and democratic lands, over against the massacres that began peacefully as the Arab Spring. The church is aiding and abetting OWS but we shall see what governments do about the demonstrations -- most likely nothing because the crowd went home for lunch. 

It was a criminal outrage and is excruciatingly painful to remember, shouldn’t be necessary even to mention our own Kent State Massacre and those fairly peaceable but reasonable and vigorous protests that changed the face of the nation -- or to recall the view expressed by someone, perhaps anonymous, that all government is all ways all bad, which Kent State proved. When political, financial, social, and religious institutions go bad they can only be brought down by the victims, and it begins with peaceful protest, either hopefully or angrily or both. In America, the right to peaceful protest is as central as the right to bear arms. 

If legitimate peaceful protest doesn’t bring about change, it may, can -- sometimes should, will, and must -- escalate beyond peaceable. 1776, Women’s Suffrage, Civil Rights, Vietnam War, Arab Spring, ... OWS? 

Nevertheless, anything that takes itself seriously deserves a spoof. Even the bag over the anonymous, incognito OWS's head shows spoofable mindlessness. And who better to spoof than Doonesbury, who spoofed Dan Quayle with a feather instead of a head, Bush with a Stetson as "all hat and no cattle," and even helped spoof The Donald off the stage of presidential hopefuls with swirls and swirls and swirls of absurd and outrageous comb-over.

Just kidding.

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