My husband has just informed me that I'm independent of him today. :) This meme has been making the rounds; I like the version my parents sent me, which ended with something about how it's more important than ever this year for people to be reminded that true patriotism and dissent often go hand in hand. Tena at Eschaton recommends the LA Weekly piece "Give Us Back Our Damn Flag: The leftist case for patriotism" as appropriate reading for the day. And a name much in the news of late, Michael Moore, has some good musings about patriotism in the LA Times, reproed on his site. Lastly, there's also a good column in the Times today by Barbara Ehrenreich; since she's only a guest columnist through this month due to Thomas Friedman's leave, it doesn't look like they'll be seting up an archive page for her, but at least her bio's up there.
Once again, same as last year, no channel on my cable system has seen fit to show the movie 1776 today. In fact, I couldn't see mention of it anywhere in the TV Guide for the entire week, although I was corrected last year in that someone did wind up showing the non-letterboxed version around the holiday, so maybe I missed the small print somewhere. In any case, I'm going to celebrate the 4th by popping in the DVD of the movie and eating a few hot dogs.
Have a safe 4th, everyone, and keep soothing your pets during fireworks time, the noise can freak 'em out.
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