9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for November 30, 2003

Transcript:

"And now for a ghastly, agonizing, horrific, zombie-generating, cruel and unusual..." "...character-building lecture." "It is time you understand the importance of rules, Miss Burber...which is to make us all pull for a common good." "We can't be guided by our own little idiosyncrasies. There is a larger picture." "What would we have in moments of dire conflict if everyone, everywhere, disregarded their leaders to toboggan on clipboards..." "If every soldier disobeyed orders and bought an electric-pink feather boa instead..." "...If the world's citizens universally ignored the call of their countries so they could draw blood-shot eyes in the middle of their foreheads for Lent?" "...Wouldn't we have......peace?" "Okay, bad example."