A man is driving down the road, smoking marijuana, and is stopped by a police officer. The officer asks, “How fast were you going?”The man replies, “Gee officer, I don’t know, how fast was I speeding?”The officer says, “You were going 3 miles an hour.”

“…thanking my stars for having not chosen CU.”

**Wherein azlib raises his hand sheepishly and admits confesses that he is a CU graduate.**

We have always seen people gather and protest [The Current Thing]. Today, it is the “No Kings” people. Not too long ago, it was Black Lives Matter. Before that, Occupy Wall Street. Way back it was Save The Whales. Same people; different things.

Anyhoo, back in my days at CU, along that Highway 93, the Department of Energy ran a place called Rocky Flats, where they built the triggers for all of our nuclear weapons. As you might imagine, this drew the attention of the parents and grandparents of today’s “No Kings” knuckleheads, and they put on an annual protest at the place. They’d shout “No Nukes”.

I had a Navy ROTC buddy* at CU who saw the protests at Rocky Flats as a great opportunity for a little mischief. He joined the protest after having wrapped himself in aluminum foil and while wearing one of those RadioShack Fireman’s Helmets. This thing was obnoxiously loud, and I have a faint memory that there was a PA function to it, but maybe not. Today we would call this “trolling”, but that term didn’t come until we had the internet, which was decades in the future.

* My ROTC buddy was bipartisan in his trolling. In his Junior year, he pierced his left ear, which was then something that was done only in the gay community. But he wore a small Navy anchor as an earring, and the Navy tied itself in knots trying to decide how to deal with him. He wasn’t (to my knowledge) gay….he was just out for the troll. I sometimes wonder how he did in the Navy.