"No Rain"

We have been having an ass-load of rain lately, courtesy of El Niño. I wonder if the hippie tactic might finally work: standing out in it and chanting "no rain" like they did at Woodstock. Something about that seemed really Irish to me, a stylish exercise in futility. 

There's something about the Irish, a tradition not only of accepting their failure but celebrating it, and laughing about it and having a drink. They do this even with death. It reminds me of the "occupy" movements, which I admired, as long as it was good-natured.

The power disparity, between the protestors and the Wall Street crowd, was insane, downright undemocratic. They may as well have been chanting in the rain. That's where we all are now, helpless passengers along for the ride, up against the politics of big money.