“We are drowning in the “impostures of pretended patriotism,” used to cover the lies that got us into Iraq, the defense of torture and the violation of our basic liberties.

“As the Fourth of July approaches, six in 10 of those surveyed in a USA Today/Gallup Poll say sporting an American flag pin indicates that a person is patriotic, one of a half-dozen actions that most say reflect a love of country.”

The recent controversy over the Reverend Wright has produced another round of the old, right wing cliche about loving this country or leaving it. You would think think that after all these years of using the same hackneyed catch phrase that these people would find something a little more creative than “my country right [...]

and no, it isn’t mine- so read away
watch and weep- human voices
“Our Bushtopia can always find a way to get you to buy oil, no matter who suffers in the process and they’re very good at making it sound like patriotism. Of course real patriotism has little to do with lapel pins or [...]

i was having a chatfest with a friend of mine the other night and we got talking about world affairs and whatnot. nothing heavy- we already had chatted for an hour or so anyhoo- somehow we got on the topic of saying the pledge- and she was upset that someone she had [...]

C-Money and this bitch have been watching John Adams on HBO. So far so good, but a bitch is a fan of revolution (wink) and my ass has been known to watch the same episode of The Revolution on The History Channel multiple times without getting bored.
Some people watch American Idol…a bitch watches reenactments of [...]