Food for Thought

If you're counting David Horowitz is the latest conversative to receive a pie in the face while on the lecture circuit this year (the others being Paul Wolfowitz, Ann Coulter, and Pat Buchanan, who actually got hit by salad dressing. Someone else got hit by some sort of red substance, to symbolize Palestinean blood, but I can't remember who that was). It's kind of a crazy rebuttal; that someone says something so distasteful and out of touch with reality that the only response is, in fact, an equally absurd one. We can debate all we want about the childishness of pie throwing (I wouldn't do so), but I think a larger symbolic point can be taken from these acts of incivil disobedience: the snake oil you sold isn't working, neocons, and the crowds want a refund.