Peanuts ends up in the news in strange ways at times. There was a Snoopy float in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade this year…. but everyone on the float got kicked off by the cops. Why? Well, as you may know, at Mardi Gras the folks on the floats throw beads to people. Note that word: to. But according to the New Orleans police, the folks on the float, the Krewe of Thoth, were throwing beads at certain people, a far more violent action. Who? While there were rumors they were throwing them at federal agents, the police clarified that they’d been pelting folks with anti-ICE protest signs along the route. And so, the Krewe was ejected from the float (no actual arrests made, at least not as of last report), and the float which was led by a doghouse with Snoopy and Woodstock on top continued riderless through the rest of the parade route.

(Before anyone asks, I have no knowledge of whether Peanuts Worldwide had approved of the float in any way. I shall not presume one way or t’other.)

Just another thing that I get top cover as the AAUGH Blogger. (Hey, did I ever get around to writing up that 1980s religious group that supported themselves in significant part off of bootleg Peanuts merch? I don’t think I have…)

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