...So, in memory of both John Phillips and my friend -- who, I believe, would almost certainly disagree with my opposition to Bush but would also, I choose to believe, think this a hilarious prank -- I propose that we 'lighten up' a little and show our disgust with the current occupant of the White House, George W. Bush, in a very 60s way.

With apologies to Norman Mailer, who uttered the original idea 36 years ago in a speech against President Lyndon Johnson, I propose that we wallpaper the country by sticking little pictures of George W. Bush, "pictures the size of post cards, the size of stamps... to walls and posters and telephone booths and billboards... -- upside down."

Let's warn Bush, just as Mailer warned Johnson: "Silently, without a word, the photograph of you," George W. Bush, "will start appearing everywhere, upside down. Your head will speak out... it will say that not all Americans are unaware of your monstrous vanity, overweening piety, and doubtful motive. It will tell them that we trust our president so little, and think so little of him, that we see his picture everywhere upside down."

So, smile and grab a picture of Bush from the Internet -- there's a good one at georgewbush.com.  Flip it upside down.

*Email "Upside Down George" to all of your friends, tell them what it means, and tell them to do the same to all their friends.

*Add 'Upside Down George" to your web page if you have one.

*Email 'Upside Down George" to the White House. Email ten to Karl Rove. Email a hundred to Dick Cheney. Email a thousand to George Bush. Email it to every member of the Cabinet.

*Email 'Upside Down George" to every governor, every sSenator and every congressman. Fill up their email boxes with little pictures of 'Upside Down George.' Send them one every week until they figure out what it means.

*Email 'Upside Down George" to the United Nations representatives.

*Email it to Vicente Fox, to Tony Blair, to the Japanese, the Chinese, the French, the Germans. Email it to Vladimir Putin.

*Email 'Upside Down George" to Jeb Bush and Kathleen Harris and Jim Baker and Ted Olsen. Bury them in weekly mailings.

*Email 'Upside Down George" to every media outlet, every reporter, and every pundit whose address you can find. Bury them in piles of little pictures of 'Upside Down George.' Send them one every week, too, until they get curious enough to ask what it means.

*Email 'Upside Down George" to corporate executives.

*Print out pages of little pictures of 'Upside Down George.' Mail them to Congress and the media. Plaster them on bulletin boards, hand them out at supermarkets, put them in birthday cards, paste them on your trash cans, your books! Tape them to the soles of your shoes!

*Entrepreneurs, start making sheets of stamps, post cards, T-shirts, hats, bumper stickers, and posters of 'Upside Down George.'

*Media, make 'Upside Down George' a regular feature of your publications.

Let's make the national media pay attention! Let's make George W. Bush pay attention! Let's make him so uncomfortable that he can't stand to look in the mirror! Let's have some fun!