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Sunday, July 04, 2010

Happy Independence Day!

America, you're one resilient country. You survived a bloody fight for independence, a devastating civil insurrection, the moral wounds of African slavery and native genocide, two world wars, a cold war, two depressions, Jim Crow laws, stagflation, Three's Company and two terms of the Bush Administration.

And think of all the things you've contributed to the world: baseball, Duke Ellington, the iPod, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, the Ford Thunderbird, George Gershwin, Artie Shaw, Herman Melville, the 40-hour work week, the Harley-Davidson panhead, Groucho Marx, T.S. Eliot, the movie palace, and Rocket 88.

Happy birthday!

§ Posted by Uncle Mike @ 9:37 AM