hell’s handmaiden

Welcome to the January 1, 2008 edition of this is not my country, but with elections coming I am hopeful, marginally, that I may be able to reclaim some of that pie in the sky affection I had for the country in my youth. It isn’t that I’ve lost my love of the principles in the Declaration and the government of the Constitution. If fact, if anything, that is my problem. I suppose a case can be made that we, as a nation, have been drifting away from those principles since the whole experiment began, but with 9/11 we ran like hell, trading principle for an illusion of safety.

December 1, 2007: No, this is not the Christmas edition. There won’t be a Christmas edition. This is ‘Hell’s Handmaiden’ not ‘Celebrating Jesus’ Birthday on the Wrong Day’. It is a large edition, though, and it is full of Christmas Cheer. And on that note…

Annual Rerun: Why We Skip The Holidays Altogether from Wenchypoo at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

From Scholars & Rogues, Real heroes refuse to shut up and sing. Amen. I’ve had this fight myself, but it is a good one. There really is nothing more un-American than ‘America: Love it of Leave it’.