Sign o' the Times

I am NOT, repeat NOT, going to allow my therapist to lay a guilt cloud down on me 'cause I blew her off to go to an anti-war rally.

Hundreds of high school students walked out of classes all over Chicago today, and convened downtown with a huge crowd of activists. Was talking with a friend about how exciting that was: how relatively supportless we felt when we were that age, when kids of our generation were supposedly all clean-cut unquestioning little Reagan Youth. Well, we weren't--and we'd be feeling vindicated now, had we actually been listened to at the time. Oh well - that's the way the hand is dealt. You GO, Generation Y or Z or whatever they're calling you this week (and I have a bone to pick with whoever named us after Billy Idol's old band, but I digress).

(People at the rally actually ranged in age from approx. 4 to about 80something, but it's always the good-looking young ones who get the press.)

We took up most of N. State Street with the march. No counterdemonstrators. Lots of honking and thumbs-ups and peace signs even from people whose rush hour traffic we were jamming. Will anyone admit to wanting this war besides the Bush League? Not in Chicago, where a citywide anti-war resolution passed in the City Council 46 to 1.

Sign o' the Times

I am NOT, repeat NOT, going to allow my therapist to lay a guilt cloud down on me 'cause I blew her off to go to an anti-war rally.

Hundreds of high school students walked out of classes all over Chicago today, and convened downtown with a huge crowd of activists. Was talking with a friend about how exciting that was: how relatively supportless we felt when we were that age, when kids of our generation were supposedly all clean-cut unquestioning little Reagan Youth. Well, we weren't--and we'd be feeling vindicated now, had we actually been listened to at the time. Oh well - that's the way the hand is dealt. You GO, Generation Y or Z or whatever they're calling you this week (and I have a bone to pick with whoever named us after Billy Idol's old band, but I digress).

(People at the rally actually ranged in age from approx. 4 to about 80something, but it's always the good-looking young ones who get the press.)

We took up most of N. State Street with the march. No counterdemonstrators. Lots of honking and thumbs-ups and peace signs even from people whose rush hour traffic we were jamming. Will anyone admit to wanting this war besides the Bush League? Not in Chicago, where a citywide anti-war resolution passed in the City Council 46 to 1.