Ben Jonson at Folsom Street Fayre

Prologue

Scene 1

U:

Your Maiesty is welcome to a Fayre;
Such place, such men, such language and such ware,
You must expect: with these, the zealous noyse
Of your lands Faction, scandaliz'd at toyes,
As Babies, Hobby-horses, Puppet-playes,
And such like rage, whereof the petulant wayes
Your selfe have knowne, and have been vext with long.
These for your sport, without perticular wrong,
Or iust complaint of any priuate man,
(Who of himselfe, or shall thinke well or can)
The Maker doth present: and hopes, to night
To give you for a Fayring, true delight.

Apparently, tens of thousands go to a modern-day fair (hundreds of thousands on some estimates) and one or two couples bring... their kids.

At Scarborough Renaissance fair, a young "fairy" gets knighted by a "Queen"

Why anyone would bring their kids to such a fair is loopy.

But, the selectivity of the outrage from certain places on the Right reveals their ongoing shame-in-a-bottle.

Where was Michele Malkin when "Born Into Brothels", a stunning film out of India, was in circulation?

My point isn't that one cannot care about both issues, it's just that Malkinites seem to have absolutely no sense of proportion of the World's ills. Instead, fellow travelers are just scanning websites and street fairs for photo-ops to advance an anti-gay smear agenda (I cannot imagine who they hire to do this).

Truly, if one is idiotic enough to take a "street fair" as indicative of day-to-day "lifestyle" (running around bare-assed, for instance), then aren't we allowed to call them what they are, up to and including bigots?

I don't care if they object to non-Christian displays of sexual joy, as they see it, etc., but to use images from a street fair to attempt to smear an entire group of people is just wrong.

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By the way, if the new take-no-prisoners attitude toward Miller beer is the way to go, then I hope I'm not the only one keeping a list of Malkin's sponsors, too. So far:

Discover Card
Royal Carribean
Verizon

Here's Michelle defacing a corporate logo.

By the way, given the boycott she wants, how much Miller beer have her and her posse been drinking, eh? On their own admission, it's more than we know ...

Now, if she lead a boycott against hair salons, there might be a danger of an economic recession.

(There is a chuckle or two to be had in watching the right-wing use a boycott, which was historically the province of leftist activism. *chuckle*)

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