Still pissed

Those of you who have been around here much know that when I get really pissed about something, I can’t blog much.  So that’s where I am now and why it’s been pretty quiet around here today.  I’m completely spun up about this McCain-deciding-not-to-debate thing.  I know I wrote about this yesterday, but I think [...]

Who needs a flag pin?

We have this …

 
Congratulations to the US Ryder Cup Team.

More on patriotism

Sometimes the best I can do for y’all is to send you somewhere else.  This is one of those times.  Please, please, please go over to HuffPo and read The African American Patriotism Quandry by Leonce Gaiter.  Here’s a tease to whet your appetite:
Imagine you were born where you and your parents did not have [...]

On Patriotism and the First Amendment

I’ve been off grid for a week, vacationing in the land of Mickey and sunshine.  Returning to the frozen northeast, I find that the political world is turning its myopic brain back to the issue of patriotism as related to Barack Obama and his non-flag-pin-wearing-self.  In an AP article this morning, the question of Obama’s patriotism [...]