Suburbial Trickery

Friday morning started quite interesting. I went out for my morning smoke and found a pamphlet wrapped in plastic laying on the driveway. At first glance, I assumed it was propaganda for lawn care or something similar. I looked around at the houses in the neighborhood and the houses near me had the same pamphlet laying in their driveways or yards too. I opened up the plastic and peered inside and to my surprise, it was a recruitment advertisement from the KKK. WTF? I looked through the papers, read the nonsense on them and threw them away. I did however, save one of them to show my wife and upon doing so, she shredded it as well.

That evening, I noticed a local news crew truck interviewing neighbors. It was only a matter of time before they showed up at our door, asking for comments in response to the pamphlets. We obliged. But I gotta believe that the KKK got what they were after in the end, whether it boosted their recruitment efforts or not. Think about it...you distribute 100 or so of these letters...you know someone is going to call a news source and report it, and bam...the KKK just got free publicity all over the news stations. Now the whole damn city knows the KKK is looking for additional people.

*sigh*

One of the downsides to living in a subdivision.

But, I'll leave you on a good note...onto the top 9 of 2006....

#3 The Prestige -

Oh yeah...bitchin' movie. I'm really starting to like director Christopher Nolan, who's also directed 'Momento' and 'Batman Begins.'