Alabama's vale of tears and fears, tear-gas-masked law enforcement officers on horseback and on foot, smashing heads, bashing backs of unarmed protestors, seeking enforcement of equal voting rights for all Americans, regardless of color.
Some activists share jokes about the police, tweeting photos of broken-down doors and battered bodies with hashtags such as #bahrainstylereforms. Others swap recipes for Molotov cocktails, as protests evolve from peaceful calls for human rights and a proper parliament to angrier demands for the police to be bashed back, the closure of the American naval base and the end of the monarchy.
"She felt everybody was bashing poor Hillary," says an elderly supporter at Leisure World of Maryland, recalling how a friend founded a Clinton fan club back in 1992; and that's empathy, organizing to bash back, and there's a huge gulf between that and pity.
It always seemed incongruous this Depression-era hat-hurling, and the film clips left the story unfinished: was there always a confusing and awkward five minutes on the terraces subsequently when all the hats were politely returned to their rightful owners, and bashed back into shape?
Suddenly, the only way to right the myriad wrongs which have befallen you for being who you are is to bash back as hard and fast as you possibly can, wailing and gnashing your teeth as the blood splatters up into your face.
Javy Lopez and Reggie Sanders bashed back-to-back homers in the bottom of the sixth inning, tying the game at 6-6.
If you don't, just go Rambo and kill people by bashing, backing up, and then charging at them to repeat the process.
If you fail it is a long slow swim with waves bashing you back to the beach which is always very frustrating time.
By contrast, Finch played as if international cricket was as easy as a back-garden bash back in the Victorian township of Colac, where he learnt his fearless strokes.
