I was granted the rare treat of witnessing the "anti-war protest" staged Wednesday at the campus entrance at Allen Street and College Avenue. Perhaps someone should have handed the aging baby-boomer buffoons a calendar and told them it's not 1968 anymore, and America hasn't been in Vietnam in 27 years. Oh, and also that they are "The Establishment" now.

It was particularly hilarious to see these nitwits parading about with signs that read, "Don't be part of an oil war," or some such nonsense while festooned in petroleum products. The plastic rain slickers, impact-resistant bifocals and even the false teeth in their block heads all are petroleum products. Need I even note that most of them drove to this "oil war protest" in their gas-guzzling Expeditions, Jeeps and Suburbans?

I certainly would not deny their right to be heard. After all, this is America, the country where a movie called Jackass can be No. 1 at the box office and a person matching the same description can write anything they want on a sign and march around in public. I simply want to say thank you to them for brightening my otherwise dull day with a moment of absurdity.