Omaha and I really want to go to this. But, we're reasonable people. Exactly the kind of people who should be showing up to Jon Stewart's call for reasonable people, to gather together near the Lincoln Memorial, and hold up a few signs. We'll join the rest of the Reality Based Community, reasonably saying (rather than shouting or chanting) that we want reasonable change in due time.
Jon thoughtfully put it on a Saturday, because the 80% of the country that is not out of its mind has "sh*t to do," like going to work on Monday and getting the kids ready for school. It still not enough to get reasonable people like us to go haring off, buying cross-country tickets, getting Washington DC hotel rooms, with only 42 days of warning. Sad, but true.
Jon thoughtfully put it on a Saturday, because the 80% of the country that is not out of its mind has "sh*t to do," like going to work on Monday and getting the kids ready for school. It still not enough to get reasonable people like us to go haring off, buying cross-country tickets, getting Washington DC hotel rooms, with only 42 days of warning. Sad, but true.

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Date: 2010-09-20 06:09 am (UTC)Also, it's on the other side of the continent.
But I'm sure they can scare up a million reasonable people nearish the East coast.