7.4.24 – Fireworks
The day makes me feel like a pledge.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
… to the flag, OK, because an idea needs a totem, but to no one’s definition of that idea but my own. “Patriotism,” said Dr. Johnson memorably on the evening of April 7, 1775, “is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” He did not mean patriots are all scoundrels but that scoundrels camouflage their mischi…
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