too much time on their hands

As a rough rule of thumb, the usefulness of an idea is inversely proportional to the cube of the vigor with which it is propounded on any New York City sidewalk. Especially if that sidewalk is adjacent to Ground Zero.

Anyway, I asked them to smile when I took the picture, which they did, as much as people burdened with such a message of betrayal and doom are able to, I suppose. They posed, at least.

Every witch hunt, pogrom, and holocaust has its roots in a crazy idea.