The car I owned when I lived in Columbus, Ohio was liberally (heh) decorated with bumper stickers. I occasionally got some heat from passersby about the “Come the Rapture, Can I Have Your Car?” and “The Religious Right is Neither” ones, and the Darwin fish. Fair enough, they’re kind of snarky. Astoundingly (to me at the time) the sticker that got the most negative comments was the one I picked up while I was volunteering with Open Hand, a nonprofit that delivers meals to homebound people with AIDS. It said “Love Shouldn’t Kill. Help Prevent and Cure AIDS.” In any sane and humane world, there should be nothing controversial about that sticker, but more than one person stopped to snarl, “That’s not love!” and worse. At the time, I was even more poorly equipped for off-the-cuff verbal argument than I am now, and my best responses were usually along the lines of “Of course it is!” or “How would you know?” delivered to a retreating back.
Via Pandagon, an exquisite pictoral response to a letter which would have made me blither incoherently-and uselessly-with rage.
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