Ok, this is pretty funny.......Indiana women calling the Govenor regarding their periods......

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. This kind of political theater is very effective

Abbie Hoffman and the YIPpies and others in the 1960s knew this.


I am also reminded of a story Molly Ivins told:

1993 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1993/05/funs-fight

[font size="+1"]The Fun's in the Fight[/font]

Our Texas freedom-fighters have been prone to misbehavior ever since. A recent Ku Klux Klan rally in Austin produced an eccentric counter- demonstration. When the fifty Klansmen appeared (they were bused in from Waco) in front of the state capitol, they were greeted by five thousand locals who had turned out for a "Moon the Klan" rally. Citizens dropped trou both singly and in groups, occasionally producing a splendid wave effect. It was a swell do.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/turk-pipkin/steve-fromholz-a-guest-in_b_4663250.html

Steve and I did quite a few shows together over the years, but our command performance was in 1993 when we joined hands with a group of adventurous Austin types and mooned the Klan in front of the Texas Capitol. That’s right, the KKK was coming to town, and rather than protest and scream expletives at their racism and hatred, we decided it’d be better to turn the other cheek.

“It came to me as a flash... of light,” said Fromholz, who dreamed up the mass mooning. “If you don’t feed their hate, they’ll starve to death.”

Let me summarize by saying that Fromholz’s idea was beyond sublime. Our group began by singing, “If you’re happy and you know it, Moon the Klan.” Unable to reach the front row of the counter-protest, we brought up the rear by dropping our drawers. Many of us were wearing boxers. Mine had smiley faces on them. One guy’s drawers said, “Support Live Music in Austin.” As Molly Ivins described the scene, “It was a gas.”