Kooky cardboard best left out of politics

I hope we don’t go to war with Iran. And I really hope we don’t go to war with the Islamic Cardboard Republic of Iran.

The latter is what a reporter called Iran after a highly kooky ceremony involving a cardboard cutout of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. They were celebrating the anniversary of Khamenei’s return from exile.

Reports show pictures of the cutout being escorted off an airplane and posing for pics at the top of the stairs a la Nixon. The cutout was also paraded past troops for “inspection,” then whisked away in a big shiny car.

Now trust me. I like kooky (I would love to meet Pee-wee Herman). But high doses of weird simply don’t mix with politics.

A better application of cardboard cutout technology? Cardboard Darin. I once had life-size cutouts to promote a publication. Now retired, the Cardboard Darins live behind my couch (and scare the pants off my cats).