| Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
20:12 - Drive-By Politics
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Yesterday, as I was driving home through downtown San Jose on I-280 eastward, I passed under an overpass, as I always do. Except this time, from some distance away, I saw that someone had hung a large American flag on the fence.
I thought, hmm-- haven't seen one of those since late 2001. Wonder what the occasion is?
Then I got closer, and saw that to the left of the flag was a smaller sign, which someone was in the very process of hanging up. It said: PEACEFUL DIALOGUE WITH CUBA.
I thought, huh? What brought that on?
And then, today, both the flag and the sign were gone.
I don't know what to make of this one. The street in question was the one you end up on if you take the Bascom exit, and it fronts right along San Jose City College, so maybe there are some one-issue firebrands at work... but geez.
Freeway overpass sloganeering: pioneered in the wake of 9/11, and so quickly cheapened.
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