The Glorious 4th
Before sleep takes me, I am compelled to write about the 4th now, rather than tomorrow. I've spent hours this past week looking for brilliant quotes from long dead people that invented and/or led this country, and thought about how I might make some sagacious observation about how those brilliant words still apply to us now, how we should be grateful and blessed because this nation, this idea, exists at all. That anyone that is "American", by nature, is really "American" from somewhere else and that the entire notion of an "America" is, unto itself, the most radical idea of the last 244 years. But, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to make a suggestion, not pontificate, for I have no axes to grind, political or otherwise, any longer. I'm going to suggest that everyone watch, as I did for perhaps the twentieth time, the Ken Burns series on the American Civil War. It's about 12 hours of time we all have to g