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 ]