Code Pink, Once More With Saucepans

Today’s warm weather brought lots of people in pink into the Central Park of Davis, where we banged saucepans, sang songs, and presented George W. Bush with a pink slip (more like a pink neglige). Organized by Code Pink Davis along with the student chapter of NOW and the newly-reformed Davis chapter of Amnesty International, it had all the makings of the outrageousness that has been a hallmark of Code Pink since its inception last year.

Such silliness masks the fact that there is a far more serious, and urgent, side to this kind of gathering. One student said she was scared Bush was going to blow up the world. She’s not the only one…