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[hatman]

Fighting Glenn Beck with the power of... poetry?

A recent quote from Glenn Beck offended people even more than usual:

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church website. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice are code words [for Communism and Nazism]. Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!

In response, a Jewish organization launched a new movement today: Haik U Glenn Beck

You can write a Haiku to protest Glenn's insane paranoid vitriol, read entries from others, and even rate them. If you use Twitter, you can write your haiku there and add the tag #becku. The website shows the latest entries there, and they're automatically added to the moderation queue. (Poems aren't officially added to the site until they've been approved.)

I've written a few already. Five of them have been accepted so far. (Search for "hataroni" if you want to see.) The only one so far not accepted:

Godwin's Law invoke
how many has your side lost?
calculator broke

Not sure if they didn't know Godwin's law, felt it was too general, or just didn't think it was appropriate. Ah well.

Don't know how it's supposed to make any actual difference, but hey, it's fun. :)

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I forget where I encountered it first. But it's handy sometimes. And getting more so, thanks to the Tea Party...