A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved. . . it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.