Somebody sets up a sign and throws a shin-dig every Sunday at 1:30 in the middle of the Park Blocks.  It’s a typical Christian gambit.  The sign says Communion is taking place.  I walked along, wondering thy there were several (decently dressed) men standing there, spied and read the sign — which prompted the head of this religious clique to wave in as a means to beckon the obvious curiosity-seeker that I was.  I shook my head and walked along.  I had a couple problems with them to work out — first to move in a different definition of Communion, instead of my Catholic assumption on hearing the word as Eurcharist — and secondly — I couldn’t square the conversation I overheard from them.  They were talking about the dire need for a Balanced Budget, — indeed I thought I had stumbled upon a group of evangelical Republicans or evangelical Libertarians (evangelical in the lower case adjective sense).

Moving downtown, I saw that some activists had plastered some chalk writing on the sidewalk in front of some banks– and in some cases taped crap on the building itself.  They were protesting environmentally unsound banking practices in terms of who they invest with and lend to — what interested me about this was to see that the chalk writing stopped at bank’s edge, such that it was clear the activists had no beef with — for instance — Rite Aid — where the messy chalk writing stopped at store’s edge, and all was clear in front of Rite Aid.

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