Will Durst: FIREWORKS IN THE FOG
Posted in: Today's ChiliAaaah. 4th of July. The Great American Holiday. Dead solid center summer. Picnics, baseball, watermelon, fifth graders flying past with red, white and blue streamers flowing from their bicycle handlebars. And ice cream. In the street. From a truck. Blaring John Phillip Sousa. Where’s the bad?
It’s a party the whole country relishes celebrating. A day to forget what divides us and to concentrate on what binds us together. Hard to get bogged down in politics while watching a parade. Except for that whole- making fun of the clownish numskulls waving at us from the backs of convertibles- deal. This particular birthday festivity transcends partisanship. You don’t have to live in a red state to charcoal red meat.
Betsy Ross needed both the red and the blue to make an American flag. And not just the white. But the brown and the yellow and the mustard and the black and all the other colors of the human rainbow. Even the LGBT and the Muslim colors. And Independence Day reminds us that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights… among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of charring the flesh of large slow mammals while blowing stuff up real good.
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