I’m flying a flag these days. The Stars and
Stripes, Old Glory, America’s flag, OUR
flag! I.ve strapped it to my .97 made-in the-
USA Ford Escort, and I’m zipping
around town as proudly as anyone else in
the red, white and blue Bubbaland of
South Austin, like some modern-day Patrick
Henry on wheels. As with so many others, I’m
flying our flag out of an assertive, perhaps defiant
pride. for I am proud, damned proud, to be
an American citizen, and, in this time of true woe
and deep national trauma, I’ll be damned to hell
before I meekly sit by and allow this symbol of
our nation’s founding ideals..liberty and justice
for all..to be captured and defiled by reactionary
autocrats, theocrats, xenophobic haters,
warmongers, America-firsters, corporatists,
militarists, fearmongers, political
weasels, and other rank
opportunists. [ read more ]
What the hell's happening here? Why is my bank in the tank? And my house and job? And my retirement money? Even my state's teetering on the brink of broke! Who did this to us? Fair questions, but we're not getting honest answers. 
