Free Range by Bill Whitehead for November 18, 2023

They could @ least have written in "curse"ive.

They’re protesting all of the asinine protest these days.

Exactely my words, dudes! (Especially when I hit my toe at the fan while hip hop dancing)

Old age, road rage…From a scene of destruction to a obscene of distraction…

It’s easier that way.

People who wants to protest, can always find something to protest about.

I see guys holding signs that have a big letter “N” on them. Is nothing sacred?

They would really be up a tree if they were to protest a grawlix.

Who can blame them?

They’re old white men, of course they’re complaining about everything!

Down with grawlixes!

Some today will protest just about anything they “learn” about on TikTok

One of those signs must read, “Stay off my lawn!”

I started noticing this with my high school classmates once we started hitting our 40s and 50s. Suddenly, everything kids were doing was bad, and nothing was as good as it was “back in our day.” It’s ridiculous, of course, but turning into grumpy old men is a time-honored tradition.

Grumpy Old Men.

Why not, their protesting everything. I have never been to a protest and do not desire to. I just write my Congressman, ( for what it’s worth) Being a non violent person is the main reason I don’t attend these events.

Whatever it is, I’m against it.

Looks like the news, every day

Let’s go block an interstate. I-5 in Oregon was blocked when I went there for my Grandson’s wedding. That wouldn’t happen in Florida. They would be cleared out by state troopers or run over by big rigs.

I see their signs all over “End Road Work”

And you kids get off my lawn!

The skull-bones usually refers to the “end is near.”

Had a university roommate years ago that used to protest protesting.

Li’l Abner cartoonist Al Capp became crotchety in his final years. He added to his strip a protest group called S.W.I.N.E., for “Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything.”

Haul them before a congressional investigative committee and lock ‘em all up.

The protesting curmudgeons.

Grawlix artists advertising their work.

Oh my goodness! It just hit me. All these old dudes are the right age (these days) that they would have been the teenagers and hippies protesting whatever was going on in the 1960s and -70s. And they’re still at it. True change takes more than protest.

Must be lefties. Oh wait. They say they’re always quiet and happy don’t they?