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Some group is going around the neighborhood handing out these 'No War in Iraq' signs for people to put in their yards. I'm guessing it's a program designed to help liberals suffering from Wellstone / Mondale / Moe sign withdrawal to ease out of the election season and back into normal society.

Apparently some doves must not have been home when the sign folks came around because a lot of the signs going up appear to be homemade. They look like they're made by kids, but more likely it's just adults with those fat Crayola markers. It's impossible to make something look like kids didn't make it when you use those things. You practically have to make a fist when you hold them they're so fat. How can you draw like that? You can't, that's how. (You can, however, make your own crayons now. Mint!)

Anyway, yesterday afternoon one of the homemade signs went up in the yard of a house down the street from us. Huge letters colorfully demanded 'No War With Iraq!'. There was also a big fanciful peace sign drawn in one corner. Well actually it was the Mercedes logo, but I think it was supposed to be a peace sign. (Ahhh, Edina.) Either way, I figured it was good to see some activism in the 'hood.

Not to be outdone by some peace loving German car fan, the house across the street made a homemade sign for their lawn, too. Same reliable fat marker on tag board construction and - in what I presume was a 'tribute to heroes' - a small flag duct taped to one of the posts. The only real difference between this sign and the other one was that the new one said 'Nuke Iraq' and had a big mushroom cloud drawn on it.

Uhhh... Are those really my only two choices? Then I'll take heads. No wait, tails.

I couldn't help but stop and take a couple of pictures. While doing so, I got a kick out of the fact that I was confronting two political extremes while standing - ideologically and quite literally - in the middle of the road.

Then a bus drove up and I had to move.