Why are people hanging their chair in their yard?

[Narf]

I was riding the max today and I noticed a quite few houses have lawn chairs hanging from a tree in their front yard. I also noticed this on the Facebook's main page. Is this some kind of trend?

[A Yahoo! user]

With respect to Facebook, I don't know. Facebook also has a video you can watch on the subject of chairs, and they are basically saying chairs are a good thing. Okay, fair enough. But what's the point?

I think most people who are hanging a chair in their yards are doing so either as a homage to Clint Eastwood, and his performance at the Republican Party Convention wherein he did a monologue with an empty chair that was supposed to represent the President of the USA. Or they are doing so in rebellion or objection to Clint Eastwood's performance, and suggesting it was insulting to the President or others.

Or, in the alternative, since the chair represented the President of the USA, perhaps the HANGING of the chair has other connotations, meaning perhaps it represents a lynching of sorts. Not necessarily of any particular individual, but perhaps representing the lynching of the president's POLICIES.

Where you stand on this issue may depend, in part, on your own political orientation. No matter where you stand, it is not necessary to hang a chair from your tree. But you will have an opportunity to VOTE in November.