Bed-In for Peace.

Yes, John and Yoko actually staged a "Bed-In" for peace. I swear the handmade sign above their heads reads "Hair Peace." Those crazy kids! Wielding the brave, absurd flame of love (and sex – come on, those were some sexy hippies) against another senseless, increasingly unpopular war. That was before the ACT UP era of die-ins, when angry queers made headlines by staging mass street funerals and chaining ourselves to the White House gates to protest Bush père's murderous inaction on AIDS.

Shrub's (read: the President-select's) administration is spending $8 billion a month on the war – I mean "democracy-building mission" – in Iraq (including those sweet no-bid Halliburton "reconstruction" contracts). That's $2 billion a week, $267 million per day, $11 million every hour.

Every hour. Let's think for a minute about how many college educations, affordable homes, diapers, library books, life-saving medical prescriptions, acres of protected rainforest, urban parks, and public school music teachers that would cover. (Just call me Bleeding Heart, baby.)

Where are today's moral giants? In these terrifying times, we could use a few more celebrities taking to their beds.