Actually, they're Zippo lighters

Yes, dude, they're candles.

There was an event in Berlin recently where they had 10,000 children light 1 million candles. That's what this picture is from. I think it may have been a UN sponsored event for world peace or something.

Now y'all know I'm not a big believer in demonstrations or grand symbolic gestures like this, believing that those are meant more to satisfy some peoples' moral vanity than address or alleviate any real problems. But I just thought there was something special in this photo. A photo of Alec Baldwin or Susan Sarandon hectoring people for their pet cause would make me roll my eyes; however, this photo of an anonymous little girl lighting candles touched me.