Sunday Stuff

(Posting is likely to be flaky this week, by the way, especially on Friday.)

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Moustache of Understanding in today’s Times (here)…

I’ve been trying to understand the Tea Party Movement. Sounds like a lot of angry people who want to get the government out of their lives and cut both taxes and the deficit. Nothing wrong with that — although one does wonder where they were in the Bush years. Never mind. I’m sure like all such protest movements the Tea Partiers will get their 10 to 20 percent of the vote. But should the Tea Partiers actually aspire to break out of that range, attract lots of young people and become something more than just entertainment for Fox News, I have a suggestion:

Become the Green Tea Party.

I’d be happy to design the T-shirt logo and write the manifesto. The logo is easy. It would show young Americans throwing barrels of oil imported from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia into Boston Harbor.

The manifesto is easy, too: “We, the Green Tea Party, believe that the most effective way to advance America’s national security and economic vitality would be to impose a $10 “Patriot Fee” on every barrel of imported oil, with all proceeds going to pay down our national debt.”

John Cole at Balloon Juice already beat me to it with a great reply, so I’ll merely link to him here.

Oh, and by the way, Little Tommy, here is a teabagger whom you can try to persuade. Go ahead (h/t Red vs. Blue)…



Update 4/26/10: You go, Ed! (here)

…and yeah, I kind of like this tune the way I liked Playboy for the interviews (and I really did).