Bruno the Pretzel Man

This makes my heart sing with joy. This is exactly the right combination of random acts of kindness (the pre-emtive kind) and ANARCHY! AHHHH! BLahrghrahr!

(Taken from the Daily Kos)
Slacktivist has a suggestion for fighting back:

By my junior year of college I’d had enough of the credit card advertisements.
They were on every bulletin board on campus. They were on the boards in the mailroom, in the dorms, even on the boards of the various academic departments […]

I didn’t like the way those ads were luring so many of my friends and classmates into perpetual debt. And I didn’t like the way all this increasing debt was changing the nature of higher education into a kind of glorified vo-tech system that was meant to do little more than enhance your future earning potential.

So like I said, I’d had enough.

I took down the ads. Every last one of them. I recycled all the posters, the fliers, the business reply envelopes.

They replaced them, of course, but I got rid of all of those as well. It became a weekly ritual. I’d take the rounds regularly. I carried a staple remover wherever I went.

So the point here is, if you’re a college student, or a college professor, or even if you’re the parent of a college student: Get yourself a staple remover.

It’s a small gesture, but effective activism can be built out of thousands of tiny acts.