The 2009 Ann Arbor Street Art Fair

Celebrating its 50th year, the four-day fete was at once huger than ever and perhaps down a bit from last year.  http://www.artfair.org/

The ACLU volunteer wearing the Liberty Crown wanted me to believe that I needed her permission to take her picture. 

 Her friend to the left reframed the demand in very fluent legalese. 

As a journalist, I scoffed.  As libertarian, I chortled. 

The cyclist was explaining to the ACLU that he does not mind

being stopped for a breathalyzer when he is a pedestrian because he has nothing to fear from the police. 

We all kept our scoffing and chortling to a polite minimum.

Two different groups, Michigan Atheists and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Larry and Emily were among the dozen or so volunteers who stayed busy all week,

meeting old friends and making new ones.

The Washtenaw County LP shared its booth with Ron Paul's "Campaign for Liberty"

which seeks to audit the Federal Reserve Banks.

Protestor standing next to the Libertarians claimed that

libertarians do not use gun safes to secure their weapons.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.  They gave me a condom

in return for my donation to their cause.  Don't know what I'll do with it.

Not the kind of place to raise a kid -- in fact it's cold as hell --

but it is still important to go there.  And someday, we will.

Dug Song gives the Vulcan salute on behalf of the Ann Arbor Skate Park initiative.

Actually, I am opposed to the Skate Park.  I think that skateboards

 ought to go anywhere that an automobile, bicycle or wheelchair can go

and for the same reasons.  A vehicle is a vehicle. 

Discrimination against skateboarders is cultural and age-based.