Furibundum

Not feeling so patriotic this weekend despite all the fireworks hullabaloo. Last night was more scary than not, really. Just sounded like maybe a busier than normal night in the 'hood around here. Gunshots and firecrackers sound remarkably similar, FYI. So I spent a lot of my time ducking, better safe than sorry. I do hope that whatever advantageous mayhem the holiday may have elicited is over and done with. Not to mention that it was plain annoying. And those "big event fireworks displays" trumpeted about town all week here ... yeah, I caught a few of those live coverages on the local news. Lame, lame, and lamer still. At least I gave it a shot. Seems to me there really wasn't so much to celebrate this Fourth of July, all things considered, what with this intended to be our annual orgiastic blowout in honor of the greatness of all things America! What a farce these last few years, each one more so than the last. Rather than those danged noisy fireworks, yesterday sho...

" No one owes obedience to a usurper government or to anyone who assumes public office in violation of the Constitution and the law. The civil population has the right to rise up in defense of the constitutional order. The acts of those who usurp public office are null and void ." - Constitution of Peru , Article 46. I do believe we have the same rising-up privileges here too, no? Props, though, to the Peruvian founding fathers for such succinctness. Straight to the point, and well said indeed. Rights are of no consequence, however, if unexercised. Don't know how it plays out in Peru, but despite our country's similarly documented rights for "the civil population to rise up in defense of the constitutional order," we as a people sure do have a history of resting on our collective laurels allowing the omnipotent powers that be to run amok. Why, I wonder, given the abomination that is BushCo, has there not been more outrage? More rising up? A calling out for t...