Masked guerilla lawyer la_rana tells me to keep reading The Corner, so I keep keep reading the corner.
As for me, I have been wearing a flag in my lapel since September 11, 2001, and with special care ever since American forces took the war to the place whence it emanated, Afghanistan. As long as brave Americans were willing to accept, if necessary, wounds or death on our behalf, I felt a duty to be faithful to them: “This flag’s for them!” And will stay in my lapel until they are out of harm’s way.Accessorize! Back in the WWII days, guys collected scrap metal for the War Effort. Today, they pin it on their, uh, lapels. I'm one Victory Garden away from solving the global food-price crisis, myself.
Everyone knows silly bravado when he sees it. So let me lay some out. Since Osama bin Laden is out to harm Americans all he can, it seems only right that we should wear a flag to make it easy for him to find us. It would be disgraceful to cower.
Also, "the place whence it emanated"? Thou hast oppenned mine Eyes, my deare Novacke, with thine moste fulsome Love of Countrie.
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if it was through his nipple, then I might be impressed.
Patriotic gishes are also trendy in torture circles.
what can you expect from a dewd who writes: "Ordinary Americans do not love a mere 'ideal' out in never-never [i.e. IOZ] land. They love the land, the soil, the mountains, the [fruity] plains, the history, the bloody battles, the mistakes, the rises and falls, the real human history of an altogether human people, the particular, imperfect people of the United States."
huh.
and here I thought all this time it was them freedoms I loved 'Merica for.
ronald
IF I could swing it, I was thinking it would be great to get the Repubs to start wearing american flag arm bands. Maybe on a nice red background.
Do you think they'd get the joke??
"my deare Novacke"
Is this some fancy Czech vocative or what?
to the place whence it emanated, Afghanistan
Umm, hang on a minute... Don't you mean Saudi Arabia? It's about 3000 miles left, and down a bit.
Since Osama bin Laden is out to harm Americans all he can, it seems only right that we should wear a flag to make it easy for him to find us.
If it actually worked like that, I for one would gladly send the Cornerites an entire truckload of flag pins. Let freedom "reign"!
As Tom Lehrer sang, "Remember why the good Lord gave you eyes -- accessorize!" Oh wait, I told it wrong...
Fascinating that he thinks wearing a two-centimeter decorative clasp from 12,000 miles away is a braver act than refraining from bombing the shit outta things and seeing who survives at the risk of remaining the slightest amount vulnerable.
Coward, thy name is Novak.
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