July 4, 2006

Happy July 4, American friends

Independence Day is the title of one of my favorite novels. It's also a day with lots of Pabst and picnic table activity in the U.S. A celebration of the greatest power-to-the-people event in American history. Now the D. of I. is a crusty old document kept in the National Archives in Washington and G.W. is overdoing it again with the barbecue sauce of presidential authority. But there's hope, I keep hearing, hope! It's that spry, mercurial Al Gore again. Click here first for bugmenot logins to the full-text article.