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It's the 4th of July, and Cindy Sheehan is working herself up to another hissy fit. This time it's a hunger strike. If memory serves, she has used food as a form of protest in the past, on at least one occasion eating some dreadful stuff that she claimed was the daily diet of peasants in the third-world toilet du jour.
As reported by Breitbart, Cindy will be joined by at least four others. Dick Gregory has signed on. This is nothing new to him: the former fat-guy actually started a weight loss clinic after one of his earlier forays into political starvation. Former army colonel Ann Wright and environmental campaigner Diane Wilson launch serious, long-term fasts.
"I don't know how long I can fast, but I am making this open-ended," said Wilson. Which means he'll probably cave the first time a Good Humor truck cruises past.
Now here's where it gets really rich: Other supporters, including Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, novelist Alice Walker and actor Danny Glover will join a 'rolling" fast, a relay in which 2,700 activists pledge to refuse food for at least 24 hours, and then hand over to a comrade.
A "rolling" fast. Now there's a concept. Starvation by relay team. Presumably Haddad's will be on hand with a sumptuous meal for each of these celebs as soon as he/she finishes his/her shift.
All this, I'm sure, was inspired by the recent sacrifice of Saddam Hussein, who in protest of whatever is troubling him these days, actually skipped one meal.