A Day Without...

Originally posted May 12, 2006

The other day my boss and I were talking about the nationwide immigration rally, which I believe was dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants."

The name has become so popular that since then, every day has become A Day Without something.

A Day Without News (this is our favorite). A Day Without Gringos. A Day Without Money (another favorite). A Day Without Respect. A Day Without Signing Over Your Soul in Exchange For a Tank of Gas, closely followed by either A Day Without a Soul or A Day Without Gas.

That led me to wonder whether there could ever be A Day Without Protests. By designating a day on which you could not protest, you would, in effect, be protesting protests. Which is a protest in itself, and therefore would be violating the entire tenet of A Day Without Protests! It would be like matter and anti-matter...the day would cancel itself out and implode into a black hole, thus shattering space and time as we know it. We would cease to exist, or possibly be condemned to floating around space until randomly falling out of a tear in the cosmic fabric, smack in the middle of an alien tea party celebrating the colonization of Pluto. And wouldn't you know it, you just happen to be wearing nothing but your underwear that says "Friday," and it's Tuesday.

Come to think of it, though...if you refuse to protest a protest, are you then protesting the subsequent protestation of the original protest? I'm starting to think this is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.

Screw it...I'm going to the alien tea party. I'd rather deal with definites.

Mrs. Duhamel commented: Unfortunately with having children, there will always be protest. Any child that argues and does not like that they are not getting their way obviously is a protest. It was a nice idea though, kudos for trying!