It's every party planner's worst nightmare: no one shows up. That's what happened yesterday at Occupy Congress, a protest that was prepared for 10,000 people but only attracted a laughable few hundred.

The same thing happened at the Key Bridge protest, when more media turned up for the show than actual occupy protesters.

I get that it's a bad economy. I get that many are underpaid and unemployed. It totally stinks for a huge majority of teens and twenty-somethings...

...but aren't there a few marketing majors in the Occupy crowd? Event planners? More»