It took this photoseries to crystalise for me what was nagging me about Jon Steward’s Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear. The signs featured are clever, geeky, ironic, somewhat smug, but apolitical. It’s protesting as performance art, bloodless and meaningless. Well intentioned, I’m sure, but meaningless. Seeing the rally on the news and reading about it on the internet I could not help but think that this was what all those well meaning, smart centrists and war apologists wanted the anti-war demonstrations to be back in 2001-2003. Polite, cheerful and ineffective.