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"What do we want?! Unfried chicken! When do we want it? Now!"

Oh sure, you can can get a handful of folks out to some desolate intersection to throw teabags at Washington or honk for the impeachment of Dick Cheney, but there's only one thing in America that can create a mass movement to surpass the Million Man March, where people will not be denied their basic human rights.

The 11th Article of the Bill of Rights: The free-dom of Kentucky Grilled Chicken:

Earlier today, a hungry mob of New Yorkers (the millennial generation's version of an angry mob) staged a '60s-style sit-in at a Manhattan KFC restaurant. Why? They were protesting the store manager's refusal to honor coupons for the fast food chain's new grilled chicken courtesy of the karma-grubbing cultural icon Oprah Winfrey. Funny and absurd, sure. But I can't help but see this kerfuffle as evidence of either the beginning of the end of all that's good in the world or (pause for sip of Obama-flavored Kool-Aid) the return of power-to-the-people engagement.

Right now, "KFC" is the No. 1 "trending topic" on Twitter, mostly angry folks who tried to get their free grilled chicken and couldn't get their coupons honored, sometimes because of ridiculous double-talk from store managers who started to realize around 11:30 a.m. or so that there's no freakin' way to simply give away junk food to EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN AMERICA.

Of course, wasn't it just a few years ago that Oprah was giving away free cars. Now we're ga-ga because she's giving away free chicken with a couple o' sides? Is this a great country or what?