There’s no one who disrespects out flag more then Wall St. and Madison Avenue along with right wing wackos who wear the flag on dirty T shirts or underwear or buy napkins and plates, etc. decorated with our American symbol.

We see the flag at 4th of July celebrations not as it’s supposed to be displayed but in form or advertising. Most of this transpired during the Reagan years. Most disgusting is that I’ve seen card board trash receptacles with the American flag emblazoned on them.

Proper flag etiquette rules say the flag is not supposed to be used on clothing, costumes, advertising yet every where I look, most often on new and used car lots, I see the flag used to attract customers.

This is all disrespectful.

Decals on dirty cars and trucks and on soft drink cans. You name it, the flag has been exploited and trashed but mostly by this corrupt administration full of chicken hawks who have never loved a war more then the one they don’t have to fight in themsleves but they insist that wearing a lapel flag pin made in China makes them patriots. Gimme a break!!!

A little bit of history: The lapel flag fashion statement was started by Richard Milhouse Nixon when he was endanger of being impeached. He thought it would make him look more patriotic. And then he resigned in disgrace.

While you can’t use a flag as clothing, you can have a flag on your clothing. Obvisouly somebody can’t read, or follow insturctions.

But yeah, I count myself very very lucky. I’ve got two gorgeous daughters who look nothing like me and are smart as hell, they really do make just about everything in life brighter.

Also, I just checked out your site, and I really like it. Definitely keep up the good work.

Mount Trashmore is a city park here in Virginia. It used to be a landfill but they renovated it into a really gorgeous place to take the family for the day. They have skateparks, jogging trails, an ENORMOUS playground, and all kinds of other stuff.

You can tell where the landfill was because it’s this big, long, hill.

Bands were playing free concerts all day long and as the sky darkened, people amassed on the hill with their glow sticks and such, thousands of aliens on a hill watching a cover band play “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and it was just great. Then we watched the fireworks burst over the lake, and I think I was more excited by my daughters’ reactions than by the fireworks themselves.

Great time.

Actually, this last fourth of july was pretty awesome. We went to mount trashmore, and saw the fireworks up close for the first time since my daughters have been born. It was pretty amazing just seeing all those people and coming together to have a good time.

When I was a kid, we went to the ball game and then did fireworks, so it was kind of a, I guess it was a side thing. I mean, you knew why you were watching fireworks, but you also went to the ball game and got hotdogs and sodas. This last fourth, it was all about the fourth. No ballgame, just one enormous friggin party, and the people…

Women in burkas barbecuing, dudes holding hands, rednecks and emo kids, thousands of them and all just loving the space and feeling the free.

K, need to stop now before I start sounding like a hippy. Definitely not old enough for that one, nope.