Recently, while Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans, Bahrainis, Syrians and Yemenis were using social networking websites to organize political dissidence, we Louisianians were cultivating our own brand of Internet-based civil resistance: DWI Checkpoint Facebook pages. That’s right    — the Arab Spring and the Cajun Summer.
Apples and oranges, you say?
Granted, but just as those two are fruits, so too are spring and summer seasons — and so too are these instances of organized civil defiance.
And just as apples and oranges are nutritious — the former indispensable daily for keeping the doctor away, for instance — so too, for democracy, are the Arab Spring and the Cajun Summer.
Nutritious — and delicious, too, as it were.
In other words, delicious in that we ought to count ourselves among the thousands — the Baton Rouge page claims 17,893 as of this article’s writing — who “like” these DWI Checkpoint Facebook pages. Delicious — as in good.
But before you get MADD, let me clarify: we ought to do so for the right reasons.
Yes, I drink. I drink moderately. In fact, I’m drinking as I write this. In fact, I’m drinking and driving as I write this, listening to Ludacris’s “Move B***