Unfortunate Boosterism
Surely you remember all those magnetic ribbons that were far more popular on the rears of cars a few months ago than they are now? All those yellow "support our troops" ribbons, followed by red, white, and blue "support america" ribbons, and then pink ribbons and green ribbons and camouflage ribbons (I'm not kidding)…. Why, some of us are even old enough to remember the original red AIDS-awareness ribbons that were actually ribbons.
Anyway, I was driving in rush hour this morning so I got to observe the rears of lots of cars, and the few ribbons that were on the rears of those cars, and I saw one that I thought a little odd given our current post-Katrina, post-Rita sensitivities. It was a medium blue in color; evidently referring to a high-school "mascot" it said:
Go Hurricanes!
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on Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 23.41
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Now just last week I was driving in the Pacific Northwest, where I (from Canada) was struck by how many car bumpers were sporting two or three or four of these ribbons, mostly very patriotic in nature, with a preponderance of the "support our troops" one. I suppose the people who put them there equated supporting the troops with approving of the Bush invasion and occupation of Iraq, as if the nobility of service legitimizes an immoral war. I thought it was probably not a good idea to question the drivers of any of these vehicles, however.