“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing The System’s game. The Establishment will irritate you, pull your beard, flick your face to make you fight — because once they’ve got you violent, they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” — John Lennon, 1940-1980

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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
It looks like The Establishment knows how to handle non-violent protest in Oakland. Attack it anyway. 😦
It’s a sad testament to what we’ve become as a country that they can do it and not only do a lot of people not seem to mind, an all too large a share seem to support the police attack.