Satire is not dead, not in New York in August

Hundreds of activists-cum-performance artists are planning on making themselves heard during the Republican Convention later this month, not on the barricades, but through street theater depicting "Billionaires for Bush" and the like.

Their faith is touching. And doing something like that is certainly much more fun and camera-friendly than one more mass march or sit-in. But will all the playacting really swing a single swing-state vote?