Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for December 30, 2023

Idle hands make protest signs. That’s how I read it.

What is the American Sign Language for “protest”?

Love his poems. Don’t understand them all, but love them :-D

Ah, yes, the summer of ‘66. ‘For What It’s Worth’, there’s more to come.

What a field day for the heat

A thousand people in the streets

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say hurray for our side

Hart’s unique way of protesting against protesting.

Nothing to do can be very stressing. You never know when you are finished.

What a field day for the heat (Ooh ooh ooh)

A thousand people in the street (Ooh ooh ooh)

Singing songs and they carrying signs (Ooh ooh ooh)

Mostly say, “Hooray for our side” (Ooh ooh ooh)

For What It’s Worth Buffalo Springfield

Burma Shave

The irony is that most that protest eventually become the ones they protested against.

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, Blockin’ out the scenery, Breaking my mind. Do this, don’t do that. Can’t you read the sign.

Almost like writing poems. :)

Yes too many people that have nothing to do. It is true and it was true in 1966.

And the protest signs do nothing too…

and then they beat each other with the signs

Many times protesters offer no solutions and do nothing to improve what ever it is that they are protesting.