“Political stickering is a fun, effective, and cheap way to promote messages,” advises the Madison, Wisconsin, newsletter Nukewatch Pathfinder (Fall 1991). “Stickers like these [This product causes cancer or this teaches killing] will stick to almost any surface and are small enough to carry in a pocket….The act of stickering is illegal as it defaces property, but prosecution is very unlikely as it is a minor offense and you must be caught red-handed. Experience has shown, however, that store owners do get upset when stickerers completely plaster over products they don’t intend to buy…[and] car owners become very irate, especially if you block the view on their front windshield.”
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“In politics, you are what you eat,” explains Barbara Ehrenreich in Mother Jones (July/August). “One-thousand-dollar-a-plate meals produce one type of [candidate]; Danish and coffee on a plastic tablecloth produce quite another.”
Political incorrectness for first-graders. Writing in Salt (July/August), Marya Smith quotes Mary Heidkamp, an Illinois mother: “Although my idea was to dress her in jeans and comfortable clothes, my 6-year-old daughter wouldn’t wear anything but a skirt or dress from the time she was 3. As far as she’s concerned, the frillier the better. I used to be embarrassed to have her meet my feminist friends. But I learned to let go and let her do things in terms of her own interests.”
