American Patriotism
June 28, 2006American patriotism is a funny thing… I mean, when British people have celebrations, they burn effigies of people with names like… “Guy.” But America easily tops that.
See, we choose to celebrate our independence by blowing up miniature bombs that we bought from China. Yeah, we like to call this, “Independence Day.”
And don’t forget the little plastic flags–that’s a definite must. By the way, have you ever looked at the bottom of one of those? Made in Tokyo.
June 29th, 2006 @ 6:43 am (#)
Ha! Never thought of that before! I guess it’s kinda like Rebecca St. James (an Australian) singing an American patriotic song on the National Day of Prayer!
June 29th, 2006 @ 9:46 am (#)
During the climax of a fireworks show at the Salem fairgrounds, I once overheard someone yell “take that, you brits.” Though he was drunk and somewhat belligerent, I was happy to hear he’d paid a little bit of attention in US History.
June 30th, 2006 @ 8:45 pm (#)
@Adam: haha, that’s funny…
July 4th, 2006 @ 4:37 pm (#)
[…] Everybody’s talking about Independence Day (no, not that Independence Day). It is, after all, the Fourth of July. Today is the day that Americans everywhere are eating charcoal hamburgers, blowing up Chinese bombs, and making worthless political statements. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. […]