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Monday, April 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Country boy

I cringed as my young son recited the Pledge of Allegiance. But who was I to question his innocent trust in a nation I long ago lost faith in?

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  • Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:50 PM

    Ugggh!

    hermesloin wrote:

    "In order to survive we have to jump ship from the Narrowsburghs of the world and move to the New York Citys where we can be safe from people who desperately cling to antiquated ideas of patriotism and religion before we become their casualties."

    Uggh! Is this really what my fellow Salon readers believe? Yeah, let's all move to safe-areas where we can find people who look and behave just like us. While we're at it, let's restrict our reading to only those articles that we know are going to affirm our beliefs and let's continue to indoctrinate- sorry 'educate' our kids to be good little mini-liberals.

    Oh, and I apologize for not rising to the correct 'level of discourse'. That's right, people who disagree with you are not using rational argument at all. Gee, I guess we're just not playing fair! Thor and I obviously need to spend more time brushing up on our Chomsky before we can join this little club.

    Hey, next time I donate clothes to the poor black people- can I get my own Salon article to show what a good human being I am? So different to the families of those poor deluded kids in the military who are dying in Iraq to defend our freedoms.

    Oh, sorry, can I be against the war and yet feel support for our child soldiers? Does that make me a bad liberal?

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