Government Shutdown
By Ted Rall
Click here to see other reasons why the shut-down isn't totally bad.
NOTE: not pictured, but definitely an upside - a branch of the KKK, the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, had received a special use permit to hold one of their hate-spewing rallies at the Gettysburg National Battlefield. On Day 1 of the shut-down. CANCELLED!