State Sponsored Comb-Overs and Purple Fingers
The "Mission Accomplished" banner of the Iraqi election is the purple, ink-stained fingers of Iraqis raised in defiance leaving the voting stations. Now that the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution is the apparent victor, I wonder if this image will come back to haunt us. Would we have gone to war to establish an Iran-style Islamic Theocracy? Just Asking...
I've heard it on the grapevine that the Bush Administration might encourage people attending the state of the union address to dye their fingers purple in a show of solidarity with the Iraqi people. Of course, anyone who refuses to go along with these theatrics will be branded unpatriotic. Let's hope it's just an unfounded rumour.
To me, such a display is reminiscent of the bizarre dictates of the North Koreans, who have recently banned long hair, with one notable exception.
The hair campaign, which began in October and is dubbed "Let's trim our hair according to socialist lifestyle," requires that hair be kept no longer than five centimetres. But the state trendsetters allowed an exception: old men can grow hair up to seven centimetres to hide balding.
The campaign claims that long hair hampers brain activity by taking oxygen away from nerves in the head. It doesn't explain why women are still allowed to grow long hair.
The North Korean Ron Burgundy: "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists, you dirty hippies"!
Read it!
I've heard it on the grapevine that the Bush Administration might encourage people attending the state of the union address to dye their fingers purple in a show of solidarity with the Iraqi people. Of course, anyone who refuses to go along with these theatrics will be branded unpatriotic. Let's hope it's just an unfounded rumour.
To me, such a display is reminiscent of the bizarre dictates of the North Koreans, who have recently banned long hair, with one notable exception.
The hair campaign, which began in October and is dubbed "Let's trim our hair according to socialist lifestyle," requires that hair be kept no longer than five centimetres. But the state trendsetters allowed an exception: old men can grow hair up to seven centimetres to hide balding.
The campaign claims that long hair hampers brain activity by taking oxygen away from nerves in the head. It doesn't explain why women are still allowed to grow long hair.
The North Korean Ron Burgundy: "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists, you dirty hippies"!
Read it!
