We’ve taken our shots at liberal bumper stickers in recent years.<\/p>\n
Dr. Emil from Atomic Trousers has taken the logical next step; a top ten (?) list<\/a>.<\/p>\n To wit (with some post-facto<\/em> nominations of my own):<\/p>\n \u201cCOEXIST\u201d<\/font><\/strong><\/a> (spelled out with various religious symbols)<\/strong> – If some of the followers of the religion represented by the crescent moon \u201cc\u201d on your cute little bumper sticker would stop hijacking planes<\/font><\/a> and blowing up buildings, coexisting would be a little easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Honorable” mention in this category: “My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma”.\u00a0 That’s right, oil-belching Subaru-driving earth-granny, the fact that you don’t attend a “church” with other “believers” does <\/em>make you “better than me”.\u00a0 Or whatever.<\/p>\n \u201cA PBS Mind In a FOX News World\u201d<\/strong> – This particular bumper sticker is positively oozing with smugness. \u201cGod, I can’t stand being surrounded by these Wal-Mart-shopping, NASCAR-watching, deer-hunting troglodytes. How can these country-fried rubes allow themselves to be spoon-fed White House talking points from Bill O\u2019Reilly? They must not be smart enough to enjoy watching some dusty old Brits mumble through a clunky drama on PBS like I am.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0As if Bill Moyers isn’t the left’s high-gloss Bill O’Reilly (or, for that matter, that Bill O is a “conservative” in the first place).<\/p>\n \u201cLive Simply So That Others May Simply Live\u201d<\/strong> – The airheads with this little chestnut on their bumpers are confusing simple wordplay with incredible profundity. This bumper sticker sounds really deep until you realize that a.) it doesn’t mean a damn thing and b.) the dork in your office who asks if you\u2019re workin’ hard or hardly workin’ is making an equally clever play on words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And when all of us tax-paying, charity-donating first worlders move to yurts and revert to tending cattle and hunting and gathering, who is going to help those\u00a0who can’t “simply live”, simply, live?\u00a0 Without western (read: First-World) charity, whither Gambia?\u00a0<\/p>\n (…)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPro-Child, Pro-Choice\u201d<\/strong> – I\u2019m for the kids, but I\u2019m also for aborting them willy-nilly too. This bumper sticker has the intellectual consistency of \u201cPro-Ants, Pro-Raid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (…)<\/strong> (…)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPeace Through Music.\u201d<\/strong> – Trouble in the Sudan, you say? Send in State Street\u2019s bongo-playing hippies. They\u2019ll calm things down. Al-Qaeda insurgents wreaking havoc in Iraq? I\u2019m sure Mr. Johnson\u2019s fourth-hour band class can get in there and straighten things out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A few nominations of my own:<\/p>\n “You Can Not Simultaneously Prepare for Peace and for War”<\/strong> – This quote, attributed to Einstein, ignores the fact that Einstein had to flee for his life from <\/em>a continent that largely “prepared for peace” after World War I, in the face of a belief that repudiated “peace”, and ran to a nation that did <\/em>prepare (belatedly) for war.\u00a0 Better sticker idea; “Preparing for peace without preparing to defend it is worse than meaningless”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve taken our shots at liberal bumper stickers in recent years. Dr. Emil from Atomic Trousers has taken the logical next step; a top ten (?) list. 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\n\u201cDefy Corporate Domination\u201d<\/strong> – I spotted this gem on the rusty bumper of a Honda Civic on November 8th. Chances are you have never heard of Honda, but its a small automobile-making co-op based out of Mazomanie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
![\u201cCOEXIST\u201d<\/font><\/strong><\/a> (spelled out with various religious symbols)<\/strong> – If some of the followers of the religion represented by the crescent moon \u201cc\u201d on your cute little bumper sticker would stop hijacking planes<\/font><\/a> and blowing up buildings, coexisting would be a little easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n“Honorable” mention in this category: “My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma”.\u00a0 That’s right, oil-belching Subaru-driving earth-granny, the fact that you don’t attend a “church” with other “believers” does <\/em>make you “better than me”.\u00a0 Or whatever.<\/p>\n\u201cA PBS Mind In a FOX News World\u201d<\/strong> – This particular bumper sticker is positively oozing with smugness. \u201cGod, I can’t stand being surrounded by these Wal-Mart-shopping, NASCAR-watching, deer-hunting troglodytes. How can these country-fried rubes allow themselves to be spoon-fed White House talking points from Bill O\u2019Reilly? They must not be smart enough to enjoy watching some dusty old Brits mumble through a clunky drama on PBS like I am.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0As if Bill Moyers isn’t the left’s high-gloss Bill O’Reilly (or, for that matter, that Bill O is a “conservative” in the first place).<\/p>\n\u201cLive Simply So That Others May Simply Live\u201d<\/strong> – The airheads with this little chestnut on their bumpers are confusing simple wordplay with incredible profundity. This bumper sticker sounds really deep until you realize that a.) it doesn’t mean a damn thing and b.) the dork in your office who asks if you\u2019re workin’ hard or hardly workin’ is making an equally clever play on words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd when all of us tax-paying, charity-donating first worlders move to yurts and revert to tending cattle and hunting and gathering, who is going to help those\u00a0who can’t “simply live”, simply, live?\u00a0 Without western (read: First-World) charity, whither Gambia?\u00a0<\/p>\n(…)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cPro-Child, Pro-Choice\u201d<\/strong> – I\u2019m for the kids, but I\u2019m also for aborting them willy-nilly too. This bumper sticker has the intellectual consistency of \u201cPro-Ants, Pro-Raid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nA close runner-up in the worst abortion-related bumper sticker goes to \u201cAgainst Abortion? Don\u2019t Have One.\u201d (Against Robbery? Don\u2019t Rob People!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n(…)<\/strong>\n\u201cDefy Corporate Domination\u201d<\/strong> – I spotted this gem on the rusty bumper of a Honda Civic on November 8th. Chances are you have never heard of Honda, but its a small automobile-making co-op based out of Mazomanie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(…)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cPeace Through Music.\u201d<\/strong> – Trouble in the Sudan, you say? Send in State Street\u2019s bongo-playing hippies. They\u2019ll calm things down. Al-Qaeda insurgents wreaking havoc in Iraq? I\u2019m sure Mr. Johnson\u2019s fourth-hour band class can get in there and straighten things out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA few nominations of my own:<\/p>\n“You Can Not Simultaneously Prepare for Peace and for War”<\/strong> – This quote, attributed to Einstein, ignores the fact that Einstein had to flee for his life from <\/em>a continent that largely “prepared for peace” after World War I, in the face of a belief that repudiated “peace”, and ran to a nation that did <\/em>prepare (belatedly) for war.\u00a0 Better sticker idea; “Preparing for peace without preparing to defend it is worse than meaningless”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve taken our shots at liberal bumper stickers in recent years. Dr. Emil from Atomic Trousers has taken the logical next step; a top ten (?) list. 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