Isn't it ironic?

This morning, while making my daily Starbucks run, I parked next to a pickup truck. In the back window of this pickup truck was a sticker. This sticker was one of those bootleg Calvin images which depicted Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes fame, peeing on something. When those peeing Calvin stickers first started appearing, Calvin was usually peeing on the logo for a competing truck company; the aficionados of that sort of thing would put Calvin peeing on a Ford logo in the back window of their Chevy truck.

Those were tacky and annoying, and an obvious copyright infringement, since Bill Watterson has never licensed the characters from Calvin and Hobbes for anything. But the sticker I saw today goes way beyond tacky into the realm of unintended irony: Calvin was peeing on the letters ACLU. I can only assume that the driver of the truck takes issue with some of the stands of the ACLU; I'm guessing that the driver doesn't care for some of the separation of church and state positions that the ACLU has supported. Just a hunch.

But I'm also guessing that the irony of infringing copyright to denigrate an organization that upholds free speech escaped the driver. It's not the most ironic bumper sticker statement I ever saw; that prize belongs to the car which had a "Jesus said it; I believe it; that settles it!" bumper sticker on one side and a "Question Authority" bumpersticker on the other side, but I'm less sure that the irony was unintentional in that case.

You just can't make this stuff up.