Civilized discourse

Thankfully, unlike many countries around the world, we here in America have the right to lodge protests when we disagree with government officials. That said, there are better ways than this:

Officials with the Cook County Board in Illinois said a discontented audience member at a recent meeting may have left feces behind in the boardroom.

The officials said board members smelled the feces during Wednesday's meeting and County Board President Todd Stroger called a half-hour recess while boardroom staff removed the offending substance, the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald reported Thursday.

I'm not a fan of giant paper-mache heads, "die-ins," and chants of "Hey-hey, ho-ho, [insert something you disagree with here] has got to go," but those things are definitely preferable to someone dropping a deuce in a public meeting.

That said, we need to free all of the political prisoners who have been jailed for urinating on the sides of buildings after a night out at a bar now! NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!!!