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The Last French Fry ConundrumUnkle Traktor wanted to be blacklisted. He needed to be blacklisted. It would be the affirmation of his life's work as a labor organizer, eager protestor, pamphleteer, and counselor at Camp Kinderland, whose motto was “Summer camp with a conscience since 1923.” Except he could not.
The sound of Zippo lighters opening and closing echoed in Unkle Traktor's head from the thousands and thousands of meetings he had attended, all with great sincerity and intellectual intensity. The scars from being clubbed by the police and jostled by fellow protesters were gone, but Unkle Traktor wished they remained. He had been a member of so many Trotskyist splinter groups that he never bothered to laminate his membership cards. The slightest provocation or philosophical shi
