Over at Boing! Boing! a post about Helen Caldicott’s idea to ask the Pope to go to Iraq to be a human shield (still trying to figure out why that would be a deterrent to war — that would likely get NOW and other feminists on board for the war) triggered a discussion about other possible human shields.
My idea is we need a reality show on Fox to help pick a human shield. Hold auditions, narrow the field to about 10, and then have people so in need of their 15 minutes of fame that they’re willing to explain why they would make better human shields than the other contestants.