| tASSy |
07-04-2005 10:32 AM |
happy 4th!
happy independence day!
while most of you are out knocking back "a few" until the fireworks start, inevitably a few of you will start to puff up your chests acting like being an american also entitles you to being an ass. i can hear the testosterone now. (sorry to pin this one on the guys, but i think if i start hearing a woman puffing up her chest about how great america is for freeing *other* nations, i just stop listening to her - i will work on my sexist behaviour). being an american isn't all about going into other countries and "kicking some arab ass," as more than half of this country apparently believes,
which is kinda sorta, yano... sad.
but since i, myself, have lost site of what being an american *is* all about, i've chosen this year to focus on the "independence" part of indepenence day. so happy day, to every person who can think for themselves - to every person who believes it's "okay" to think for one's self, and to every person still waiting to learn that it's okay to think independently AND freely.
this country was built on what? what was important to us when it was created? ...life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness... keeps popping into my mind. my pursuits for happiness involve sex & independence, but they don't involve war, and guess what - i'm still an american! (and that's okay.)
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