Looking over everyone's favorite site to get all Cathy over, Zombietime, in order to find shots of last week's not-so savage anti-Savage protest, we came across something disturbing: adolescent protesters.

Sure, children are upsetting in and of themselves, but that goes doubly so when ma and pa hand them picket signs, ones that some of them can't even read, whining about their own bizarre political agendas.

Bringing kids to protest rallies reeks of on-set insanity. Granted, most political protests in the Bay Area over the last decade have turned into little more than retro-themed social gatherings and preaching-to-the-choir parties. But why not let your tykes figure out their political identities on their own, minus all the yelling and Frank Chu eccentricities?

Why would you put your little blessing in such a position? And if you're doing it to expose your kids to some sort of antiquated SF protest fetishism, then you have clarity issue to work on, not political ones. When did protesting turn into a nifty weekend outing, and not a forced and unfortunate necessity?

And if children were to march against anything, it would be for longer lunchbreaks, more sugary cereals with better prizes, or against teachers' ugly looks. Abortion and the war in Iraq? Probably not so much.

Anti-Savage image: Zombietime