Free Speech and Public Discourse During Wartime, Take One
Driving to work today, heading north on Lyndale Avenue, approaching Lake Street. Big black Hummer H2, brand-spanking new, with its war totally on, pulls out from a parking meter right in front of me. Never even sees me.
I'm quelling my rage when I notice the vanity plate. (Don't they all have vanity plates?) This one reads, quite ominously, "UR NEXT."
Ooh, that's very scary indeed. But what does it mean? Is it perhaps a message to Iran, or Syria, or North Korea? Will this gentleman's Hummer lead America to victory over the Axis of Evil? Or will he continue to buy big black Hummers until the evildoers give up?
Or is it just a friendly warning to our fellow motorists, giving the heads up that soon they too will be cut off by a big, black Hummer?
Either way, I found this absurd and, somehow, profoundly disheartening.
2:34:12 PM 
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