Blue/Purple Toga Monday: Sending a Message to Red America

[CorpGovActivist]

The Roman Senate once debated a measure to require codification of dress, based upon class - with slaves wearing a particular color, citizens wearing another, and Senators wearing a very elite color.

The measure was very popular in the Senate. It was in the final stages of discussion, when one of the great orators and elder statesmen of the Senate stood calmly, commanding attention.

"My friends," he said, "If they see how many of them there are, and how few of us there are, we shall surely perish."

The measure was promptly defeated.

If we all wear blue or purple on Monday, it will show them - and us - just how few of them there are, and just how many of us there are.

I have hope for our Republic, and as Cicero himself said in De Officiis (On Duties): "cedant arma togae," let arms yield to the toga.

- Dave

P.S. Actual toga optional, though I suspect it will be a helluva toga party next Wednesday. Lamp shades beware!

; )

[PerfectSage]

1. I beat you to it Dave

I'm wearing blue jeans, a blue t shirt, a blue sweater and a blue Colorado Avalanche ball cap. ;-)

[CorpGovActivist]

2. And Yet You Watch...

... the National League?

; )

- Dave

[PerfectSage]

6. Try thinking

National Hockey league. Try thinking greatest country in the world.
Try thinking Vancouver Canuncks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens.

Try thinking Quebec Nordiques before they moved to Denver and became the Colorado Avalanche. hehe

:toast:

[CorpGovActivist]

9. I See Mets in Your Avatar!

As for hockey ... LOL!

We didn't "do hockey" in West Virginia when I was growing up (it's since gained some ground, though the teams have to travel far for games).

One of my best friends from college days thought it was a damn shame and travesty - a cultural blind spot - that I had never been to a hockey game before in my life. He grew up in Massachusetts, where they're pretty nutty (about a lot of things, including hockey).

For my birthday, he surprised me with tickets for the Beanpot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanpot

Bear in mind, this was my first hockey game - ever.

I have the puck I caught, with the ticket stub, sitting on my bookshelves.

: )

Good times!

- Dave

[conscious evolution]

3. purple people

are already evrywhere now.
I've seen it with my own two eyes.

[CorpGovActivist]

5. Yup, KKKarl Lost His...

... audience.

... touch.

... grip on reality.

Take your pick. Either way, some of those purplish/red areas of 2004 are now definitely purplish/blue.

- Dave

[HeeBGBz]

4. I cut my finger at work and found blue bandaids

And I thought that would be an interesting statement to wear one on election day after I voted. Kinda like a healing of all the wrongs done by the repubickin party.

[IdesOfOctober]

7. Toga party?!?!?

Where?

Ides

[CorpGovActivist]

8. Lunch Break?

Hit your e-mail.

- Dave