The times were dire.

The good people were dispirited.

Evil silliness seemed to reign supreme, and threatened to overwhelm the good people and their lives.

The people cried out for a hero.

And from the east southwest, to the skirl of a plastic Viking horn, one arose:

Join me and other Freedom Loving Americans who stand in support of our Troops at the Lake Street/Marshall Ave. Bridge on the 5th Anniversary of the Liberation of Iraq. The Anti-war Kooks will be there. Let’s show ’em that they do NOT hold the majority opinion.

Bring signs, American Flags, Bells, Horns,

Enge – the irrepressible one-man conservative counterprotest movement – will be gadflying the “peace” protest at the Marshall-Lake Bridge from 5-6 tonight.

Enge was responsible for one of my favorite moments in my radio career. Four years ago, at the helm of the Engemobile (a stake-bed pickup festooned with right-leaning banners and flags, and a big honking sound system), Enge was gadflying one of the Smugosphere’s “peace” protests at Summit and Snelling. He called in to the NARN broadcast, then in progress.

I asked him to turn the Engemobile’s sound system over to AM1280, and drive through the intersection slow down in the middle of the crowd of “peace” demonstrators.

He flipped the station on, cranked the speakers, and maneuvered into the crowd.
“Grow up, take a bath, and get a job!

Great to have ya back, Enge. 5PM is a byatch, but I’ll give it my best shot.